Wednesday 24 April 2013

Maastricht Universities Top 100 Personal Websites

How does an organization's need to centralize authority and control in times of decentralizing technology and disrupting information ecology's effect personal expression and communication?
What misfits the digital self portrait when straight jackets are imposed and tightened like budgetary measures and strategic theme parks? Who can appear to an appointment without checking the Others eating pattern or personal performance indicator in advance? Do you know Akatu shower app?

As part of ICTS effort to catapult Maastricht University into the 24th century, a service officially not supported since 2006 is finally buried alive. The personal website's of UM's human resources are due to evaporate June 1 and with it the collective experience of people who stranded in Maastricht or were on their way to some other place. While the school's profiles found a save new port on its own IT infrastructure no measures where taken to save the personal treasures from the sinking ship. Until now.

A screenshot from all personal websites hosted on the obsolete hardware are here presented for the first time. As little portraits they preserves not only the unique expression of people but show their diversity in the light of an organizations dedication to efficiency and uniformity. A selection of 83 websites was made and ranked by objective parameters: page-views, google ranking and stylistic variables: content, color scheme, layout

The places 83 to 74 are presented here:

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 Place: 74


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