Monthly Archives: September 2006

Citizen Journalism

Posted on September 1, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

Skip for a moment the discussion professional journalist vs. bloggers and head over to comment one of the speakers made; “regular but interested people” did not in this scale talked over the world with eachother before since the internet users went blogging. (via)

Posted in General Interest, Innovation & Knowledge Economy | Tagged Video | 1 Comment

Google developing eavesdropping software

Posted on September 4, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

I was shocked when I read this article:

Google developing eavesdropping software

It seems that besides the the legistration some government implement to “protect” us against terrorist:

Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.

Benjamin Franklin

Now companies like google are working on eardropping tools too:

The first thing that came out of our mouths when we heard that Google is working on a system that listens to what’s on your TV playing in the background, and then serves you relevant adverts, was “that’s cool, but dangerous”.

The idea appeared in Technology Review citing Peter Norvig, director of research at Google, who says these ideas will show up eventually in real Google products – sooner rather than later.

Website: www.theregister.co.uk [via]

Forget this quote:

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

Benjamin Franklin

Posted in General Interest, Innovation & Knowledge Economy, Politics, Webtech | Comments Off

Feel the heat?

Posted on September 5, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

heat

While recently CrazyEgg came out of Beta and is limited available for free, competition is apparently working on a similar type. Here is a way to make them using Ajax and Ruby. (via)

Posted in General Interest, Webtech | Comments Off

Every Country In The World – Picture Video

Posted on September 6, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

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Skip Windows, play it on Apple

Posted on September 7, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

Voila. Done.

Posted in General Interest, Webtech | Tagged Linux | Comments Off

Sunscreen

Posted on September 9, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

Apply more than once is better.

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9-11 Conspiracy Day / The Netherlands – US

Posted on September 11, 2006 by Vincent Barnhard

911 Eyewitness on google

Dutch television is using 911 all day to discuss Bush his reaction to the 911 event. Which in the end led to the invasion of Irak. Some programs discussed the conspiracy theories that sprung out of the event.

Well I am getting pretty tired of all the sick conspiracy theories displayed on my screen. They are a bit like the above one. I do not believe that the Administration eg blew the WTC tower 1, 2 and 7 up. If it was true it would shake the whole democratic world. I can’t and do not want to believe that any US-president could be so evil.

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Posted in General Interest, Politics | Tagged Middle East, religion, Video | Comments Off

RoomWareDevHouse september 30th

Posted on September 12, 2006 by Vincent Barnhard

At RoomWareDevHouse we intend to investigate possible applications, host discussion and do some hacking while enjoying a tasty beverage. The event is free and anyone interested can attend as long as you intend to participate.

Loosely styled after SuperHappyDevHouse we hope to talk about and even build some of the applications that we will display at a later RoomWare event. Furthermore we intend to start development on an open source RoomWare platform that anyone can build on to provide RoomWare applications at their own event or location. The event is on Upcoming too…

Website: http://blog.pussycatlounge.nl

Join us:

RoomWare is software applications running in a defined space. The people in a RoomWare enabled space can use the services running on a local server through their mobile phone (Bluetooth), laptop (Wifi) or other means (RFID). Possible services range from live interaction with the music or video screens to introducing parts of an online profile into the local space.

Website: http://roomwareproject.org

Posted in Dutch, General Interest, Innovation & Knowledge Economy, Mobile, Webtech | Tagged Dutch, Family and friends | Comments Off

Freddy and the French Fries

Posted on September 13, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

freddy

It all begins when science whiz Freddy T. Funkhouser invents five life-size, superpowered spuds (actually six, if you count heads) as a “secret weapon” to win customers for the failing family business, the Burger Castle.

Website: www.freddyandthefrenchfries.com
Games: www.freddyandthefrenchfries.com/game/

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Digg controversy

Posted on September 13, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

Again my question, what’s going on? This time at Digg. Top users say goodbye, top diggers possible eliminated? Go on holiday people! update: logical response

Posted in General Interest | Tagged Digg, Family and friends | Comments Off

Myspace – uncut

Posted on September 14, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

What News Corp doesn’t want you to know about MySpace: Condensed edition

About four months ago I was hired by an online publisher as a freelance journalist to write an article detailing the history and business model of MySpace.com (the project has previously been mentioned on this blog). After months of journalistic research and interviews I finally sought comment from News Corp. Instead of getting comments or an interview from News Corp., they began harassing my employer. Due to groundless legal implications, the article I had written was no longer to be published. However, I now own the rights to my work and after weeks of looking for support and contemplating the situation I have decided to publish the article in its entirety on Valleywag.

Website: www.valleywag.com

Posted in General Interest, Politics | 1 Comment

Please help – XDTalk Plugin :-)

Posted on September 14, 2006 by Vincent Barnhard

XDTalk is a chat plugin for wordpress that allows registered users to Instant message each other while on your site.

As you can see it is still pretty buggy. Please help with the devolopment of the XDTalk Plugin

More info here: www.xdweb.net and here: forum

Update: Maybe someone like Pierre could help us?

Posted in General Interest, Webtech | Tagged Wordpress | Comments Off

Dutch Uni Writings online

Posted on September 14, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

proefschrift

Whereas most Universities had their hided section of online papers, now it becomes a bit easier to search for them with more of them on one site “DAREnet”.

Good news for academics I reckon.

Posted in Dutch, General Interest, Innovation & Knowledge Economy, Science | Tagged Dutch | Comments Off

Chris Kijne and Guantanamo Bay

Posted on September 14, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

Clive Stafford Smith defends prisioners at Guantanamo Bay. One hour interview dutch journalist Chris Kijne talks with Clive Stafford Smith about the rights people have and why things have gone really bad. Clive Stafford Smith brings it very clear-cut and not overloaded with emotion.

Meanwhile the Dutch (or EU position for that matter) is just as bad. Some ministers are even suggesting finding loopholes to endure these activities… I’m speechless for now.

Direct link to video: here
The introduction is in Dutch, the rest is in English.

Posted in General Interest, Politics | Tagged Video | Comments Off

New Numa – Mr.Safety Parody “WILL NOT PAY”

Posted on September 15, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

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Posted in General Interest, Humor | Tagged Video | Comments Off

What we saw 911 – Bob and Bri

Posted on September 15, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

Via Retecool.com posted on Google yesterday

Posted in General Interest, Politics | Tagged Video | Comments Off

Smooth E Baby Face Foam

Posted on September 16, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

Posted in General Interest, Humor | Tagged Asia, Video | 2 Comments

Operation Market Garden

Posted on September 17, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

On 17 September 1944 thousands of paratroopers descended from the sky by parachute or glider up to 150 km behind enemy lines. Their goal: … alle » to secure to bridges across the rivers in Holland so that the Allied army could advance rapidly northwards and turn left into the lowlands of Germany, hereby skirting around the Siegfried line, the German defence line. If all carried out as planned it should have ended the war by Christmas 1944.

Unfortunately this daring plan, named Operation Market Garden, didn’t have the expected outcome. The bridge at Arnhem proved to be ‘a bridge too far’. After 10 days of bitter fighting the operation ended with the evacuation of the remainder of the 1st British Airborne Division from the Arnhem area.

Source: video.google.com

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Long Tail, Chris talking

Posted on September 18, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

longtail

According to wikipedia Chris Anderson coined the word “Long tail”. Here’s his presentation with more about it. Good if you have an hour spare and want some more familiar examples.
[related post: day of the longtail]

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What is WIPO up to?

Posted on September 18, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

wipo You can loose your own copyright for 50 years because someone else uses it? That’s just wrong.

Update:
Is it now changing a bit?

Posted in General Interest, Innovation & Knowledge Economy, Politics | Comments Off

Goede morgen Thailand

Posted on September 20, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

Het heeft weinig zin om de actualiteit in Thailand op dit moment te plaatsen daar de volledige wereldpers het nieuws u sneller kan brengen. De Nederlandse televisie heeft vanwege Prinsjesdag er vrij weinig aandacht aan besteed. Thaise televisie is op dit moment op zwart gegaan.

Gelukkig is er op het internet informatie te vinden, al is feitelijk nu nog weinig duidelijkheid. Met betrekking tot de veiligheid van bijvoorbeeld buitenlanders in Thailand heeft alleen Australie een negatief reisadvies afgekondigd. Het vliegveld meld tegelijkertijd dat er geen vluchten zijn geannuleerd.

Lees het hele artikel op Bangkok Talk

Posted in Barnhard, General Interest, Politics | 2 Comments

Exploring Amazon EC2

Posted on September 20, 2006 by Administrator Barnhard Blog

Amazon just released Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Amazon recently released scalable storage infrastructure (S3) and scalable (artificial) artificial intelligence (Mechanical Turk.) Now they have done the same thing for computation.

Update of: Amazon S3 – Simple Storage Service

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