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01-09-09 Are we European?
September 1th, 2009, posted by: Tarik
Stop the presses! There's news to be told, we are going erm...... European!
The Dutch Institute for Image and Sound (aka Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid aka NIBG) has launched a project called Video Active. Video Active is an attempt of the NIBG and several other European archives to give people like you and me an idea of what television in Europe looks like on one single website. Yes, on the web!
This web spot contains tv shows from all over Europe plus a whole lot ...
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Pressrelease: MySpace is losing it
June 4th, 2009, posted by: Tarik
PRESS RELEASE Amsterdam, June 2009
MySpace banns LYPO application due to “spreading of hate and discrimination”
Developers Couscous Global and Driebit are astonished.
MySpace has banned the new application LYPO (Love Your Perfect Opposite) from it’s social network. Developers Couscous Global and Driebit are astonished by this decision. MySpace states that this application instigates “hate spreading and discrimination”
Couscous Global is an organization that addresses urgent social and societal topics in a confronting, yet, constructive manner through debate. Subjects that live among young people worldwide. Subjects that are their own and not the ones of journalists.
Couscous Global developed the LYPO application in cooperation with web development company Driebit; they will add it to several social networks later this week. LYPO stands for Love Your Perfect Opposite and it reverses a well known pri...
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A website that spatializes your head.
April 28th, 2009, posted by: Tarik
Couscousglobal.com. the Internet sequal to BNN’s discussion program ‘Couscous & Cola’ is becoming an international succes. But the the person who took this initiative, maartje Nevejan, is already looking forward. The website is ‘up for adoption.’
By Liedewij Loorbach
We received all these comments of educated Iranians when a video of an Iranian female rapper appeared on the website of an American magazine. They told us that Couscousglobal.com would be better of if it would ask the opinions of the educated youth. “But we already hear the voice of this elite often enough,” says initiative taker Maartje Nevejan.
Couscousglobal.com is a sequel to ‘Couscous & Cola’ (broadcast by BNN) a show in which foreign high school students from...bookmark:
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This station is...
April 24th, 2009, posted by: Tarik
Oh dear! He's using metaphors again. Although it's a pretty obvious one. Since you've already figured out that the word 'station' is referring to us, this website. Almost a year has passed and we've seen and heard many things that we don't hear everyday. From music, to sex, to the use of the Internet and back. Time to recapitulate, to take a peek into the past.
I can still clearly remember the moment when the first footage arrived, it was shot in Kenya. It was a debate which was held outdoors and the wind ruined the sound from time to time but still the debate itself was very good and exciting. The participants debated with fire and fought hard to get the upper hand. A good start. Their contemporaries from Tanzania had a completely differe...
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What do you REALLY know about the world?
February 9th, 2009, posted by: Tarik
Our dear Maartje returned from Iran last Friday. A country that us westerners mostly know from television. Better yet: we probably only know it from tv. The war with the Iraqi's (although that's a long time ago) president Ahmedinejad who's screaming an cursing against Israel and America (to say the least), it's nuclear program and you'll probably be able to mention a lot more examples than the ones I've just mentioned. So: axis of evil then ey?
Well...that's very, very, very difficult to say. First of all let us not forget that the images we see of this country are not - let me repeat that again, NOT - representative for the entire country.
Let's go back in time for some good measure. We were in China in August last year. We see certain images and certain people and certain events which form our image of this country. Is every Chinese a supporter of the Communist Party? I doubt it. Did you know that kids there just live the...
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Tarik talks Gaza
January 16th, 2009, posted by: Tarik
We have this certain secretary of state here in the Netherlands. His name is PH Donner. He once gave this interview in a major Dutch newspaper in which he stated that Sharia law should be instated in our country IF the majority of the population voted FOR Sharia law. Because that is the essence of democracy, he stated. As you might understand: an‘effin’ riot ensurged in our tiny western little country because of this theoretical exercise... Why am I saying this? Because I am standing on the verge of doing this myself: a theoretical exercise that is! About the Israel/Palestinian conflict; yes, yes a touchy subject. So perhaps lil ‘ol me might be in the eye of the (sh*t)storm very soon...
It is very much clear that the world is in shock because of the military actions by the Israeli army in the Gaza strip. Leaders from countries such as Egypt and France and the entire UN are turning and twisting themselves into many possible directions in order to bring the Israeli’s and Hamas’ (and it’s military wing Izedin al Qassam) to a cease fire. No succes yet. I thought it was quite a noble thing to take an initiative such as this but others such as our correspondent Moh the Gazan...
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Digital Meditationsz
December 10th, 2008, posted by: Tarik
A thought struck me the other day and it goes like this. The past few months have been very political in this joint. And with joint I mean website. Just so you know. I wasn't aware of that (let's call it blindly staring into the void called politics) untill a few weeks ago. One of the students @ Inholland brought this to my attention when he was pitching a communication plan to us he and his fellow students had written as an assignment. Whatever happened to pop culture? Why not use that, he asked us? The guy had a point. So: the time has come to chat about that.
He used the example of a game that wasn't released very long ago: Fallout 3. It takes place in post-apocalyptic Washington DC round 2213. As you can guess the city has been torn to shreds by war. It turns out that the game also features a nuclear bomb. A bombs called 'Fat Man'. Right! Just like the bomb that fell on Nagasaki in World War 2.
Is that unfriendly towards the Japanese people? ...
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Electoral aftermath
November 7th, 2008, posted by: Tarik
Today is the seventh of november, 2008. George W Bush is still president of the USA, although he`s probably planning his relocation to his home in Texas by now. Time for the new guy, the new commander in chief. The campaigns have ran - correct me if I`m wrong - for twenty months. They're over now, that's a relief to some, and perhaps a pain to others.
I was reading the local newspaper a few days ago and I stumbled upon this story. The reporter interviewed a woman who worked in a shopping mall at an airport. There was a tv next to her cashiers desk which blasted election news all day long and it wasn't making her happy to say the least. She heard just about every speech from both candidates. In fact; she stated that she would be able to give her own speech on just about every topic that was important in this presidential race. She's probabl...
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The Couscous Global icon
October 3th, 2008, posted by: Tarik
Let`s spread this one like a virus on the web. A positive virus to give our site some publicity. Feel free to place this animation on your Myspace, blog or what/where ever. (Check it out at the bottom of the page.) Help us spread the word about Couscous Global!
So once again: help us spread the word by placing this icon on your Myspace, blog or any other place on the web by copying and pasting the code below in the desired place.
You can also use it as an icon in MSN or any other chat application. Just place your cursor on the pictureclick your right mousebutton and choose "save picture as".
<a href= "http://www.couscousglobal.com" target=_blank> <img src="http://fast.mediamatic.nl/f/fxxk/image...
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it`s the end...
September 12th, 2008, posted by: Tarik
September 12`th, 9.53 AM
Current mood: still sleeping
Music: Something very heavy....to wake up.Just a few days ago i was watching the evening news. I am quite happy that I can do so since I`m not working on my MA thesis anymore. And I hope it will stay that way. So thesis: remain at the bottom of the river like you are supposed to. Don`t come back floating to the surface like a corpse which isn`t weighted down properly with stones, concrete or whatever. Just so you know.
But like I was saying; I was watching the news the other day and I saw an item about a large group of scient...
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