Thanks to one of his quotes,
I found this interesting documentary (dutch, sorry guys) of Edsger W. Dijkstra.
In some way his plead is against unnecessary versioning, which even closed source vendors as Microsoft are starting to use for many reasons.
According to the documentary he is fighting an unwinnable battle, which reminds me of the math give-up post. The innovation that
web 2.0 is bringing so fast is great, let’s hope most of it is stable.
If you liked the Weblognieuws idea, you’re going to like Revver.
They do pay for your videos, what I call good competition for Youtube, Google and others.
For the Bloggers b5media and instablogs pay for posts, although very unknown and still unprofitable (thx. Marco). Solution for being unknown, is having a large community. In that case large community portals are sitting on gold. Sad again to my knowledge they aren’t trying it.
Neither do I understand why all these clones aren’t even trying yet to connect one of these payment-systems to their site. Use credits or other virtual money if you haven’t got the money (like the habbo hotel and many role-play and gaming communities), just get visitors accustomed to it. Quick. Why do traditional media wait till there is a crazy social site to take over this local news market?
Update: Blogcharm, Scooptwords and Blogburst pay as well bloggers.
Update 2: Eefoof, payperpost do it too.
I hope they find something more original than this.
A standarized logo would be useful.
Ambitions get higher and higher to help technology in poor countries..
With increasing competition NASA is adapting, that’s good.
It’s Sunday evening and nothing much to do than browsing the net or watch movie trailers. On the weblogs everything is quiet as it is in the local bars.
I think everybody has a social life other than on the net in the weekends 
Not me, so I start reading old post and stuff on various weblogs. Today I came across a nice post on the Dutch weblog Retecool.com. The post highlights the amazingly funny website Angryalien.com and it’s newest animation of the ‘Reservoir Dogs‘ in 30 seconds and re-inacted by bunnies.
More of these 30 second movie trailer animations can be found on their main site.
Home of XDForum and a Crazy man…
Currently I am building a new wp based community site with WordPress 2.0.2 To make it a community website I needed some new WordPress features:
1) a forum linked with WP profiles
2) a 1 to 1 chat
3) profile pages linked to profile names
Well I expected hell trying to piece everything together. Then I found this websites where just a few guys are just building it and updating it everyday. Everything is still beta but it works great. So if you need a forum on WP use XFforum, need a chat use XFtalk, need profile page like ok offcourse that plugin and readme will be uploaded tommorow.
I love these guys: www.xdweb.net
update: This is so cool! A PROFILE PAGE FOR WORDPPRESS on your fp
SIP has been around for a long time. Moreover, its a fundamental part in the 3G phone plans, which is all about using your phone more over the internet (which is much more than just website browsing). The good news is that with SIP your phone can become as open source and adjustable as the computer is at the moment and its becoming standard soon!
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Not sure how true this story is, but the possibility of it isn’t very comforting. To quote from the article directly:
The big losers are the Europeans.
The irony of this fiasco is that the primary victims will be the Europeans. Because of the way the EURid registry allowed the landrush process to be gamed, the Europeans will have to pay ultra high premium prices for many of the names they should have had fair access to during the landrush period. This assumes that they’ll be able to get those names to begin with.
General dutch article talks about the lack of vision and discussion in Dutch society. Especially regarding the implications. I cannot agree more.
Parody of The Beach Boys “Barbara Ann”. Visit LetsBombIran.com for lyrics and more protest videos.
The multiplicitry and complexity of the cyborg paradigm has attracted many to it because it leads to a reconception of self in ways they belief both more accurate and more politically repsonsible that what they take to be the traditional Western emphasis on unified being.
Nice link list with social scientific cyborg studies.
Bloggers and internet pundits are exerting a “disproportionately large influence” on society, according to a report by a technology research company. Its study suggests that although “active” web users make up only a small proportion of Europe’s online population, they are increasingly dominating public conversations and creating business trends.
More than half of the internet users on the continent are passive and do not contribute to the web at all, while a further 23% only respond when prompted. But the remainder who do engage with the net – through messageboards, websites and blogs – are helping change the national conversation, say researchers.(…)
Mr Reynolds admits the idea of small groups being able to pressurise wider decisions is nothing new, but those who ignore online buzz do so at their peril: “You can bury your head in the sand, but very quickly you’ll look like a very old-fashioned company.” (…)
Website: http://technology.guardian.co.uk
Thanks Nodog!
On Wednesday I had a meeting with Tijs Teulings, Peter Kaptein and James Burke in Amsterdam. We spoke about webtech and virtual community building (tools). James is (like me) intellectually very interested in community building and peer to peer networks. In short more interesting stuff from our little beer drinking network / discussion group soon.
Anyway, James mailed me an interesting discussion website The Foundation for P2P Alternatives on which he is writing:
Tank Chair is a Custom off-road wheelchair that can go anywhere outdoors. Conquers Streams, Mud, Snow, Sand, and Gravel, allowing you to get back to nature, and can also climb up and down stairs.
Nobody online can be totally objective, no problem. Only when sensoring comes into play however this becomes a problem. No idea what happened exactly between Digg and Forevergeek but something is up apparently. Wiki is updated as well.
Sort of Techcrunch, only then China Orientated.
An ensemble of painters, Monkidoe, is helping Rotterdam to color the city a bit more with graffiti-pictures of children from the hood.
On www.cineac.tv is an interview with them (Realplayer / Dutch).
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While in Finland complete cities skip landlines and go pure mobile, a new mobile wiki platform has launched, miki. Although I think eventually mobiles are going to be so powerful that they don’t care if something is built for mobiles or not it does amplify the focus on more publishing that is more mobile-minded.
Your content, anything online really, just got ripped for nothing and sold! 