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We wish Marcel Murre all the best with “Kafe Domburg”

Kafe Domburg
Stationstraat 3
4357 TK Domburg

Website: www.kafedomburg.nl

In July 2003 the British Museum celebrated its 250th birthday.

Last night a saw the BBC Prime (BBC 4) documentary “The World in a Box” about chambers of curiosities. Unfortunately I could not record it or find a streaming video of the program.

Who can help me out? I want use it for my Cultural Anthropology study.

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Get over it!

Each day, thousands of women around the world are cheated on by their boyfriends, fiancés and husbands. A man’s infidelity causes the destruction of thousands of marriages, engagements and relationships every year. What’s a woman to do? Hire expensive private detectives? Pay for costly background checks? Now, women have a new cost-effective weapon in the war on cheating men! Founded by women with women in mind, www.DontDateHimGirl.com is a free service that allows sisters to share their experiences with cheating men by posting pictures and other information about them in an easy-to-use, searchable database.

Don’t Date Him Girl Homepage

This article contains a large list of the factors that can influence a web document’s rank at the major search engines (Yahoo!, MSN, Google & AskJeeves) for a particular term or phrase. Although it is impossible to say for certain which of these items affects which search engine or how important the factors are individually, I’ve created an estimated ranking importance scale as indicated by the following symbols (based on my personal opinions).

Read more: www.seomoz.org
Found on weblog: www.liewcf.com

Innovatieplatform roept op tot nationaal programma voor creatieve sector

DJ Tiësto, Dick Bruna, Droog Design, Viktor & Rolf, Rem Koolhaas. Nederland loopt over van creativiteit en dat biedt kansen om internationaal te scoren. Het Innovatieplatform pleit voor een nationaal programma en internationale promotie van de Nederlandse creatieve industrie. Het advies Creativiteit. De gewichtloze brandstof van de economie (1374 kB) werd vandaag door platformlid Alexander Rinnooy Kan gepresenteerd.

Creativiteit. De gewichtloze brandstof van de economie
Meer: www.innovatieplatform.nl

Hmmm:
I like to believe that The netherlands is allready a creative hotspot

What is the Innovation Platform ?

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Some people associate open source as a world without competition whatsoever. Well, innovation battles simply continue.
Nice example here by in not the least Google rivals.

I could write a post, however, you could just read my first source.

Rupert Murdoch

…However, his empire is beginning to show cracks. The cracks are not only related to the internal changes within the family business, but that dynamic will most certainly hasten the process, especially once Rupert is out of the picture….

Today I recieved my monthly newsletter from www.budde.com.au. In it was the interesting article “The demise of News Corp” from Paul Budde.

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Google Brings OpenOffice to the Web By Collaborating with Sun
A article by Malaysian webdevoloper Tien Soon:

Google, the leading Internet search engine giant, is on the track of expanding its territory out of web search arena, and moving towards offering utility software as well.

Article: www.tiensoon.blogspot.com

China, the third country to put a man in space following the former Soviet Union and the United States, hopes to launch a mission to probe the moon by 2007 and land an unmanned vehicle on it by 2017.

Website: www.chinaview.cn

SPLENDID is a daily online music magazine for people with a voracious appetite for new music.

Our focus is on independently-released material, and we review everything we receive. You’ll find a wide variety here: punk, folk, world music, indie rock, electronic music, country, jazz, electroacoustic experiments, home-recorded CDRs and a whole lot of stuff that resists classification.

The site is UPDATED DAILY with new music reviews (complete with audio clips), interviews, articles and full-length streaming audio tracks. After more than eight years, we have a MASSIVE archive — more than 10,000 reviews.

Website: www.splendidezine.com

Absolutmetropolis.com

ABSOLUT METROPOLIS features 11 eye-catching characters selected by ABSOLUT to interpret the ABSOLUT brand and be photographed by the internationally renowned photographer Nadav Kander.

Truly an amazing flash website, only the music is irritating after a while (it loops). Is it good enough for the title no.1 flash site? Sadly I am not aware of such a competition.

Website: www.absolutmetropolis.com

AMSTERDAM - Stil Novo is an anthropological project, where culinary-anthropological research will be presented in a unique gastronomical experience: a Stil Novo dinner!

Website: www.stilnovo.nl

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Tijs Teulings (www.Automatique.nl) developed a new backend with a faster SQL, better search engine, related articles and more improved implications for the popular dutch music website Kindamuzik.

In short: forget Oracle use open source and hire Tijs

Barry Wellman Net Lab Director of the Centre for Urban & Community Studies of the University of Toronto was interviewed for a thoughtful long feature of Kenneth Kidd in Sunday’s Toronto Star about how iPods and mobile phones are affecting public/private boundaries of community.

So the whole notion of a strong, controlling neighbourhood community “has factually not been true” since at least the 1960s. What has replaced it — with the accelerating help of cellphones — is what Wellman calls “networked individualism.”

“The big change has been this shift from groups to networks,” he says. “They’re less formally structured, they’re more amorphous.”

Those in anyone’s network don’t have to be physically close, just a cell call away, and it’s easier to opt in or opt out of a network than it is a group

Source: Smart Mobs: iPods, mobile phones and community

Must read: Barry Wellman & Net Lab
Huge amount of publications about networking and online communities

Blogocratie
Hoe weblogs burgers weer bij de politiek betrekken

Jeroen Steeman finished his thesis on weblogs and politics, a must read (sorry in dutch).

Download: Blogocratie (pdf 1 mb)
View in html: Blogocratie (html)
English essays: www.minitrue.nl

English Summary

This thesis examines if weblogs are able to involve citizens in politics. It starts with elaborating the relations between politics, media and citizens, seeing that these three are highly dependent.

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You’re an real asshole, your sort of closes friend is Blocky and you are feeling yourself outside pretty much any social group..

Nonesense, you will still have more friends than anyone else !

The next step was to simply instruct the Web browser to load a MySpace URL that would automatically invite Samy as a friend, and later add him as a “hero” to the visitor’s own profile page. To do this without a user’s knowledge, the code utilized XMLHTTPRequest - a JavaScript object used in AJAX, or Web 2.0, applications

Read more about at brilliant smart mobs.

This is really scary…

These sites are still alive and kicking. Brilliant Way Back material. Endless reading links off course in the english wiki.

AMSTERDAM - Prijzen voor parkeervergunningen verschillen ‘enorm’, net als de voorwaarden waaronder ze worden verstrekt. Dat schrijft het Algemeen Dagblad donderdag. Volgens de Vereniging Eigen Huis (VEH) is het beleid voor sommige gemeenten een ‘melkkoe’.
De VEH stelt dat het vergunningenbeleid een goede manier is om overlast voor bewoners te verminderen, maar het is voor sommige gemeenten een ‘melkkoe’, een extra bron van inkomsten. De vereniging zegt veel klachten over parkeervergunningen te krijgen. In sommige steden betalen inwoners voor een vergunning, maar blijkt er in de praktijk geen plaats te zijn om de auto te parkeren. De VEH pleit voor landelijke afspraken tussen gemeenten om zo meer uniformiteit in het parkeerbeleid te bereiken.

Bron: www.nu.nl
Lees meer: Parkeerprobleem Kralingen - Crooswijk

Some of Europe’s biggest software companies have joined forces to form the European Software Association, a new industry body set up specifically to lobby the European Commission and Parliament on behalf of the software industry [...]
It would be astonishing if it didn’t concern itself with the question of software patents in Europe as well. Although the European Parliament recently rejected the proposed directive on computer implemented inventions, anti-patent campaigners say it is unlikely that is the end of the story.

[the register]

Welcome back?

Economists rejoice!
While jumping those accounting and finance tables you can still play and make music with those spreadsheets in your boss time

Check this.

Tijs Teulings is in the process of adding some automatically gathered meta information such as flickr photo’s, del.icio.us links and his current location (through plazes) to his weblog.

Read more: blog.tijs.org

Our website has a lower ranking than before when searching on Barnhard with Google. We used to be on the no.1 position recently we are on page 5.

I was very irritated and amazed (after visiting all the higher ranked sites) that mostly ‘barnhard’ Ill relevant search results were above this site. Maybe it is the huge amount of comment spammers and Webstat spambots that used to visit barnhard.nl or the measures I took to keep them out (WP Bad Behavior and Spam Karma and password protection on webstat). Maybe Google ranked it as a weblog (Wordpress not Blogger) and therefore ranked it lower than 1982 styled html website’s.

I quess the most likely reason is that the extension barnhard.nl or name barnhard has been used by a spammer, Google (e.g. Googlebots) noticed and took action. I want to stress that we do not sent spam! Please if you are able to hit and hurt the spammers who used our domain name, you have our blessing.

What irritates me the most about the recent ranking is the fact that I do not trust Google anymore for giving me the best results.

Interesting insight about rankings and relevance:
Google and Yahoo Search Engine Technology Comparison

Update: Please read the comments, maybe I made some false judgments

GEN Corporation developed GEN-H4, a compact single-seat helicopter.

Equipped with a miniature engine of 125cc (8 horse power) and two propellers, it can reach a flying speed of 90 km (56 miles) per hour.

At the moment GEN sells it at 3.6M yen and organizes demo flights as well as training courses (charged separately, of course).

More:
- demo
- oddjapan.blogspot.com
- www.gen-corp.jp

A Latest review about tagging. Yahoo got the edge with their toolbar (did I mention I totally hate those?) and del.ico.us is considered bad (still gives me really exotic links, so….). Besides missing some other tagging sites and developments off course interesting material to read.

update: del.ico.us has inbuild video options for video.. *who’s behind?

Much sooner than you might expect, it will be possible for an American in New York to pick up a cell phone and have a conversation with a Chinese co-worker in Shanghai — with both people speaking their native languages. Cell phones, using sophisticated translation technology, will translate the conversation in real time.

smartmobs.

Now just hope we won’t get misunderstandings..