Veronica rocks!

Somehow they manage to melt present, past and future ...

 

Any of you who don’t Twitter yet ... it’s official, your not early adopters. Don’t beleive me ... it’s true, Scoble said so: "Scobleizer: Anyone who joins Twitter after today is not an early adopter. So, not interesting for me to follow."

I know I know, that’s neither here nor there but for the first time I do think I grock Scobble. I always wondered his comepetitions with the likes of Leo Laporte and Jason Calacanis for the most folowers/fans on every network. But he is really conecting with his audience and he is a pioneer. I like him a lot and hope he continues, I’ll keep following him ;-)

 

As much as we missed Peter Forret at Barcamp, I must say his legacy is save, this BC was very wel organised, an amzing location with too many gadgets and some very motivated people.

I enjoyed the different sessions I attended.

My presentation wasn't the smoothest I ever did, but I guess that's what you get for making the pres in half an hour ... But I loved the discussion afterwards. That means that this is probably a good topic for our panel on the next EuroIA summit. To bad we couldn't continue the discussion but I do hope some of you join us at the Brussels IA Beer hour.

I promised the attendees to add some links here to the different sources I used:

GS1 thanks Joe!

OpenSpime en de presentatie die ik gebruikte.

Cabel's article

 

I've always loved mashups, but this must be one of the best.

And the video is awsome!

An other cool animation. Not only the format, the content is pretty cool too. It's just amazing to see all this stuff, I just listened to the Cluetrain Manifesto again via Audible, more relevant then ever!

 

I admit, I like Twitter but how to explain it to you sceptical and techilliterate ....

I found the solution on Geekbrief, thanks Cali!

So check out episode 325 of Geekbrief @ geekbrief.tv

Or check out the site of the guys who create these amaizing video’s.

Or ... here  you go via Youtube of course:

 

 

You can  find more of their work on Youtube on their own page: http://www.youtube.com/user/leelefever. I really like the wiki one, haven't heard the rest but will soon!

 You see everyone finds a job that fit’s them like a  glove!

 

Here’s the trailer but you can download the film here or watch it on Boing Boing tv (who have a lot more great content)

 Actually, here's the whole film ...

 

 

Seems I have jobsearching on my mind ... oh help!

I just registered a new domain and want to start blogging more regularly about the more serious subjects that are on my mind, stuff like politics and religion and education ... check this clip out, talk about a motivation to go scream from the rooftops. What are we doing?

It makes a nice difference from the usual complot theories to see someone make the argument based on history!

No, no, no, it’s not a joke. Just an amazing interview between Richard Dawkins and The Bishop of Oxford.

Just nice to hear reasonable men discuss these mathers in stead of the usual one liners and propaganda.

 

And If after listening to all this you need to let of some steam and hear a real joke about a Cardinal this time check this Billy Connolly sketch out!

 

 

Henri Rollins talking about being young and being responsible, wow:

 

 

 

And a different but equally great marketing idea ...

I’m not telling you who from, watch the videos and you’ll discover!

 

 

Nee echt, ik ben niet verwend…

Maar doe toch maar een andere…

En tot slot…

For those non Americans, "Fair & Balanced" is ironically the byline Fox news uses. They are the same people who would start their news shows with "184 days before the re-election of President Bush" ...
Here is an other example of their "reporting" on politics. Barack Obama is a US senator and hopefully a candidate for the presidency in 2008. That is if America is ready for something different ... He's of mixed race (black dad and white mom) raised for the first years of his life in Indonesia (as a Muslim) and then in the US by his (white) grandparents. 
Anyway, here's some coverage he got on Fox. Clearly they have been learning from Rove or some other republican adviser, they try to hit two birds with one stone, accusing the Clinton campaign to leak information on Obama ...
 

Fair and Balanced ... right

And how can you pick a man who's middle name is Houssein, who actually met a Muslim in his life and has had to fight and work to get where he is today ... And he once used Cocaine! And he's not a regular parishioner at his Reformed Church!
Thank God there are enlightened men like W who can counterbalance this ... Oh but didn't he used to be a alcohol and cocaine addict ... and a failed student and a failed soldier and a failed business man and ...

I really wish a guy like Obama could become the President, but really, my hopes are not very high. Imagine how different the world could be with someone like him in power ...
How can we convince the Americans?

Or does the free market really work?

Somtimes it does and in this case good food just beat MacDonalds into submission in the UK ...

Maybe Jamie Olivers efforts are paying off!

Bikes of the future:

M, thanks, Kos thanks for the reminder:

I don’t know if anyone has followed this story but I thought I’d let you kow anyway.
Here is the article in Searchengineguide.com

In summary: a group of French and German language publications in Belgium have sued Google as they think they should get paid because Google uses their copyright content in news.google.be. Particullarly they object to the content that is no longer online on their own sites, or requires payment,  showing up thanks to Google’s Cache.
Google didn’t even bother to show up in court and has removed the publications from their index and has published the judgement on their homepage. The result can be seen here  www.google.be

And here’s a more detailed article from Searchenginewhatch.com on the subject including an interview with the organisations’ top woman.

In short what they realy want is to be in Google but to get paid for it ... talk about whishfull thinking. That’s why they don’t want to use a robot.txt.

This proves once again that some people in some countries still don’t get the internet ... I’m curious to find out what the impact on their traffic will be now that they can not be found in Google anymore.

As a flemish Belgian I’m happy our local publications haven’t followed suite and I can still find their stuff online.

Do you think other countries/publications will be stupid enough to follow this example?

Filip

(Mail I sent to the ORG mailing list)

As all of you regular readers know I sometimes like to go of on a political rant or commentary but lately I have restricted my postings to some ... lighter stuff. Which as those of you who know me is very unlike me, seeing what is happening in the world around us. And it's certainly not due to a lack of frustration with the goings on but rather a lack of energy with icogs coming closer to a critical point (we want to launch end of September) and my shoulder operation and ...  Just haven't been up to it.

But Ze puts my thoughts/feelings in words in todays post.

So true soooo true.

... for once.

And taking a stand against Redmond!

Belgium adopts open office doc format

I haven't had any info on this one through my many governement contacts ... guys!
I'll follow up when I find out more.