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"Well written opinions by disinterested experts will always be valued." (Dave Levy, Are blogs losing their infuence?- http://cli.gs/8X2avX ) In Are blogs losing their infuence? Dave Levy makes a remark about the device specific nature of microblogging as opposed to blogging, and I would have left this comment if I was enabled to do so: [a XML posti… Continue

Added by Pieter Jansegers on September 1, 2009 at 1:47pm — No Comments

A Cultural Law of Gravity

"Living as we do in such an unstable culture where anybody over thirty has to be astonished by how deeply and permanently the world has changed, it is hard for us to divorce fixity from questions of intelligence and imagination. But experiments and history suggest that a powerful stabilizing force exists and slowed the whole process of speech origins." http://www.babelsdawn.com/babels_dawn/2009/05/a-cultural-law-of-gravity.html Continue

Added by Pieter Jansegers on May 16, 2009 at 6:52pm — No Comments

Quality information

I want to thank for the quality information that has been posted here. I'm not sure its the right place for it all, but it sure is quality information and quite decent writing. I don't want this place to become a spam garden, so I'll monitor it a bit closer in the future. You might consider creating your own ning platform, it's free and it's rarely easy to do so. Let's say it's just as if you where creating just another MSN or Facebook group. Have a nice day ! Pieter Jansegers Continue

Added by Pieter Jansegers on May 16, 2009 at 12:58pm — No Comments

Twictivists and Twictivism

In a comment on the blogarticle How Twitter Took on Facebook's Zuckerberg - and Won. - http://cli.gs/MNRXur , under the heading "The Power of the People", Pemo Theodore writes: "I was one of the Twictivists who spoke out on Facebook, Twitter & comments on other blogs. [...]" I really like the term Twictivist and I believe Twictivism could become the way of the future in terms of engagement for getting policies changed. Twitter has a democratic force that hasn't been discovered yet, but whi… Continue

Added by Pieter Jansegers on February 25, 2009 at 5:20pm — No Comments

Twitter...

I believe Twitter's success is the SMS styled messages people are accostumed too and the possibility to inform the world out there even faster than by radio. Twitter is the first medium invented in the XXI century and is already conquering its place between email and blogging, IM and chat. I believe it's here to stay... (written in response to "Fuck Twitter!" - http://cli.gs/gV4LZV ) Continue

Added by Pieter Jansegers on February 25, 2009 at 4:01pm — No Comments

Do you really believe that the moon exists only when you look at it?

“ Schrödinger and Heisenberg independently uncovered dual descriptions of particles and atoms. Later, the theories proved equivalent. Then in 1926 Heisenberg’s previous advisor, Max Born, discovered why no one had found a physical interpretation for Schrödinger’s wave function. They are not physical waves at all; rather the wave function includes all the possible states of a system. Before a measurement those states exist in superposition, wherein every possible outcome is described at the same… Continue

Added by Pieter Jansegers on June 23, 2008 at 10:48pm — No Comments

Fact or fiction ?

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

Added by Pieter Jansegers on April 30, 2008 at 1:00pm — No Comments

The truth according to Wikipedia

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

Added by Pieter Jansegers on April 6, 2008 at 7:01pm — No Comments

Dataportability

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

Added by Pieter Jansegers on March 26, 2008 at 1:02pm — No Comments

The Theory of Everything (or at least a quite serious contender for being it)

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

Added by Pieter Jansegers on March 19, 2008 at 9:31pm — No Comments

Open letter sent to all the Belgian members of Parliament

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

Added by Pieter Jansegers on March 19, 2008 at 4:30pm — No Comments

The commentluv wordpress plugin

I'm generally not found at plugins, but I'm willing to make an exception for this extraordinary one. It's only the second time ever, I'm blogging on a plugin. I came across this marvel after reading an article SEOnoobs.com. The basic idea is reinforcement of the benefit of commenting upon a blog article: "Comments are a wonderful thing to receive on your blog, adding the dofollow plugin is one way to rewar… Continue

Added by Pieter Jansegers on March 7, 2008 at 1:49pm — No Comments

babl.nl

http://babl.nl has re-thought the twitter microblog concept and did put the emphasis on the discussion subject.

In less then 2 minutes, you can create your own open discussion.

I think so for http://webosophy.babl.nl

I do believe this simple idea to be a genious one.

Pieter Jansegers

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Added by Pieter Jansegers on January 27, 2008 at 12:46pm — No Comments

iMantri.com - Share|Care|Mentor|Prosper

iMantri.com is a promising platform for educational purposes.

The battle of knowlegde and content has begun: Wikipedia, Questions&Answers, Yedda.com, Malaho Greenhouse, Squidoo, Ning and Google Knols - announced, not launched yet ? - and many others

Content is indeed important to find a public for your service and your adds...

The next thing is a promise to publish really valuable content with the name of the author and his main U

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Added by Pieter Jansegers on January 16, 2008 at 3:07pm — No Comments

Bigthink.com - we are what you think

Thinking is the next big thing.

Wikia search is launched, Google Knol is announced, Yedda.com is acquired by Google, the Malaho Greenhouse is maturing information, Shoulddothis.com is coming up to speed.

I've launched in tempore non suspectu http://sharingideas.ning.com, but I wouldn't have if I found out about http://www.bigthink.com/ before.

http://ww

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Added by Pieter Jansegers on January 9, 2008 at 4:52pm — No Comments

Tumblr.com

My formula to define Tumblr is simple:

Twitter + Digg + Del.icio.us = Tumblr.com

Tumblr is a great posting platform, just the way Ning is a great social network platform.

Everything that has to do with posting messages of any kind you can image, you can do it on Tumblr.com

Just check it out yourself:

http://www.tumblr.com/

Or read the ne

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Added by Pieter Jansegers on December 24, 2007 at 6:44pm — No Comments

Sellaband.com revolutionizing the music industry.

Not only has Sellaband an interesting business model for both the artist as the 'believers' in an artist, it now also has found the right channel for distribution: it did strike a deal with Amazon according to the Guardian.

This enables all music artist to be

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Added by Pieter Jansegers on December 19, 2007 at 6:36pm — No Comments

Sphynn wins from Digg and Reddit thanks to new feature

Since the introduction of the possibilty of mentionning the Sphunn score on the reported article, I noticed that site like Uberhype.co.uk only mention Sphinn as bookmark service.

No linking to del.icio.us nor Digg nor Reddit...

http://uberhype.co.uk/youtube-bubble-map

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Added by Pieter Jansegers on December 19, 2007 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Exaflood and integration of services

A quote

"Exaflood" stems from the term exabyte, or 1.074 billion gigabytes. Two exabytes equal the total volume of information generated in 1999. The Internet currently handles one exabyte of data every hour. This mushrooming amalgamation of data is pushing the Internet to its limits.

The link

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/23/AR2007052301418.html

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Added by Pieter Jansegers on December 19, 2007 at 3:54pm — No Comments

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