Fact or fiction ? It isn't as easy as it seems... What laptop does Steve Ballmer use for his presentations? Very nice posting ! it's a real discussion about what a fact is. The only thing that appears to be certain is that there is in the picture like we see it an MacBook with a nice Microsoft sign in front of it. See also the discussion about Wikipedia and… Continue

As a sort of apotheosis, the premiere of the documentary The truth according to Wikipedia was presented at The Next Web Conference. http://thenextweb.org/2008/04/01/thenextweb2008-update-the-truth-according-to-wikipedia/ In the blogarticle "The People versus The Expert" Tessa Sterkenburg expresses her views on the truth balancing between the expert and the blogger (calling "Anna Frank" a blog… Continue

I’ve just joined http://dataportability.onconfluence.com/.. because dataportability makes a lot of sense for any early adopter of new social websites Name, age, bio, favorite quote, favorite books, favorite TV programs, etc. How many time do we still have to enter all this information ? “It’s on the web already, so just copy and sync with it, please…” is a thought that crosses your mind at that moment. Dataportability will assure us thi… Continue

Via an Dutch article at Grenswetenschap.nl I found out about An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything of the American surfing dr. Garrett Lisi. It's a theory needing far less dimensions than the Super String Theory. With a link to an article in de… Continue

SUBJECT: Zou dit mogelijk zijn ? Est-ce que ceci serait possible ? Would this be possible ? TO: all the members of the Belgian Parliament as listed this afternoon. BODY: Bonjour / goeiedag, Would it be possible to create three toplevel domains namely .vl (Vlaanderen), .bxl (Bruxelles) and .wa (la Wallonie)… Continue