Monthly Archives: October 2005

Murre – Kafe Domburg

Posted on October 1, 2005 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

Kafe Domburg

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

Kafe Domburg
Stationstraat 3
4357 TK Domburg

Website: www.kafedomburg.nl

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    The World in a Box

    Posted on October 2, 2005 by Vincent Barnhard

    BBC - The World in a Box
    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.

    (more…)

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      Anti-Cheat Blog

      Posted on October 3, 2005 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

      cheat

      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

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        Search Engine Ranking Factors

        Posted on October 3, 2005 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

        Search Engines

        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

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          Netherlands should become a creative hotspot

          Posted on October 3, 2005 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

          logo platform

          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.

          pdf 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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            Open content seeks alliances

            Posted on October 3, 2005 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

            openalliance

            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.

              Posted in General Interest | 1 Comment

              Paul Budde – The demise of News Corp

              Posted on October 4, 2005 by Vincent Barnhard

              Rupert Murdoch
              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.

              (more…)

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                Google Brings OpenOffice to the Web

                Posted on October 5, 2005 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

                Tien SoonGoogle 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

                Tien Soon podcast

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                  China 2nd manned space flight

                  Posted on October 6, 2005 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

                  China Space

                  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

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                    Splendid magazine

                    Posted on October 7, 2005 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

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

                    Splendid

                    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

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                      No.1 flash site 2005 ?

                      Posted on October 7, 2005 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

                      Absolut Metropolis

                      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

                        Posted in Art & Design, General Interest | Tagged | 2 Comments

                        Freek Janssens – Stil Novo

                        Posted on October 7, 2005 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

                        Stil Novo
                        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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                          Open source – Automatique & KindaMuzik

                          Posted on October 9, 2005 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

                          Kindamuzik

                          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.

                          Automatique
                          In short: forget Oracle use open source and hire Tijs

                            Posted in Music, Webtech | Tagged | 1 Comment

                            iPods, mobile phones and community

                            Posted on October 12, 2005 by Vincent Barnhard

                            IpodBarry 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

                              Posted in Mobile, Webtech | 1 Comment

                              Blogocratie by Jeroen Steeman

                              Posted on October 13, 2005 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

                              Blogocratie
                              Hoe weblogs burgers weer bij de politiek betrekken

                              Jeroen SteemanJeroen 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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                                Who needs Blocky?

                                Posted on October 16, 2005 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

                                blockyYou’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…

                                  Posted in General Interest, Gossip, Innovation & Knowledge Economy | 2 Comments

                                  Top 100 oldest living sites

                                  Posted on October 18, 2005 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

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

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                                    Parkeerbeleid is melkkoe voor gemeenten

                                    Posted on October 20, 2005 by Vincent Barnhard

                                    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’. parkeermeter
                                    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

                                      Posted in General Interest, Politics | Tagged | 2 Comments

                                      ESA footnotes

                                      Posted on October 20, 2005 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

                                      esa

                                      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?

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                                        Spreadsheet Music !

                                        Posted on October 20, 2005 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

                                        excels

                                        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.

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                                          WP automatically gathered meta information

                                          Posted on October 21, 2005 by Vincent Barnhard

                                          PlazesTijs 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

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                                            I lost my trust in Google rankings

                                            Posted on October 21, 2005 by Vincent Barnhard

                                            rankingOur 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

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                                              GEN-H4 single-seat helicopter

                                              Posted on October 22, 2005 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

                                              Gen-H4

                                              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

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                                                Tagging Sites review

                                                Posted on October 23, 2005 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

                                                A Latest review about tagging. Yahoo got the edge with their toolbar tag(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?

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                                                  What did you say?

                                                  Posted on October 24, 2005 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

                                                  acting

                                                  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..

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