Monthly Archives: May 2012

Ruud van Nistelrooij Docu

Nistelrooij quit playing soccer this may. Among the soccer toppers, this nice dutch docu from the NOS about him (2006).

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    The real Intouchables – Film and true story

    Not everything matched reality in this film Intouchables, but remarkably the most important parts did.

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      Redefine Hell

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        ‘Wulffmorgenthaler’ the new daily ‘The Far Side’

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        Wulffmorgenthaler covers everything that the two humans Mikael Wulff and Anders Morgenthaler do together. They’ve created the comic strip “Wulffmorgenthaler” which runs in national newspapers in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Germany and now England.

        Daily fresh great comics @ Wulffmorgenthaler.com

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          Soccer is war – About the Orange revolution

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          EK 2012 gaat bal worden. The second orange revolution is upcoming?

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            Get Social: Become an Authority in Your Industry

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            There is a fine line between being another active brand on social media as opposed to being an authority.

            There are many components that are factored into creating a perfect recipe for success – we’ve listed a few key elements your brand can do to establish an authoritative online presence:

            1. Who Are Your Consumers?
            2. Quality of Your Network
            3. Quality Control
            4. Unique Campaigns

            Read full post @ Socialmediatoday.com

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              What is Your Klout Score?

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              It becomes increasingly important for organisations to measure the actual impact of the social presence. The methodology used by Klout is focused primarily on measuring how influential you are in your social networks. When you share, like, retweet in your social networks, you influence people. The more engaged your actions are, the more influential you become. Klout defines Influence as the ability to derive action. Keeping your audience engaged is the key.

              Create a profile in http://klout.com/ and check your influence. [via]

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                Google wants faster websites

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                Google is incorporating page speed as a factor into it’s page ranking system. Matt Cutts summarized this change in three main points:

                First, this is actually a relatively small-impact change, so you don’t need to panic.

                Second, speeding up your website is a great thing to do in general. Visitors to your site will be happier (and might convert more or use your site more), and a faster web will be better for all.

                Third, this change highlights that there are very constructive things that can directly improve your website’s user experience. Instead of wasting time on keyword meta tags, you can focus on some very easy, straightforward, small steps that can really improve how users perceive your site.”

                Read more @ Seo-hacker.com [via]

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                  Working women in Dubai

                  High youth unemployment, but with sitting female talent, where’s the change? Interesting perspectives.

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                    Aftapbeleid sociale media nog steeds ondemocratisch?

                    AMSTERDAM – Hyves en Facebook weigeren inzage te geven in hoe vaak er informatie opgevraagd wordt door politie en justitie. Ook het ministerie van Veiligheid en Justitie houdt de cijfers geheim.
                    Maandag bleek voor de tweede keer dat minister Opstelten en staatssecretaris Teeven niet willen ingaan op vragen van GroenLinks-Kamerlid Arjan El Fassed.(nu)

                    Naast de ongezonde passagiersdata overdracht blijkt de overheid nog steeds niet te begrijpen dat het op zeer minimale wijze aantonen van geoorloofd beleid van evident belang is voor respect van zijn rol.

                    Verkiezingen tip 2012

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                      What’s left to explore?


                      Don’t assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matter, in whatever field you choose to explore.” (Nathan Wolfe)

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                        Parking Douche

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                          Klokkenluiders huis eindelijk realiteit?


                          Een meerderheid in de Tweede Kamer steunt de oprichting van een organisatie die klokkenluiders moet beschermen, vallend onder de ombudsman. Een wetsvoorstel van SP-Kamerlid Ronald van Raak kan rekenen op de steun.

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                            The Six Enemies of Greatness and Happiness

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                            1) Availability 2) Ignorance 3) Committees 4) Comfort 5) Momentum 6) Passivity

                            These six factors can erode the grandest of plans and the noblest of intentions. They can turn visionaries into paper-pushers and wide-eyed dreamers into shivering, weeping balls of regret. Beware!

                            Read full article @ Forbes.com

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                              Bombardement in Crooswijk, Jonker Fransstraat

                              Op 14 mei 1940 rond 13:30 uur voerden de Duitsers in het kader van de Duitse aanval op Nederland in 1940 het bombardement op Rotterdam uit. Een echte Crooswijker vertel in de bovenstaande video over het schuilen voor het bombardement in de Jonker Fransstraat. Zie ook eerdere posts over het bombardement.

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                                Terugdraaien vingerafdrukken?

                                Uit onderzoek van PrivacyFirst van maart 2012 blijkt dat de maatregel om vingerafdrukken en andere biometrische kenmerken af te nemen en aan het paspoort toe te voegen, “volstrekt disproportioneel” is. De belangrijkste doelstelling van het toevoegen van biometrische kenmerken aan het paspoort was om look-a-like-fraude te voorkomen. Uit een WOB-onderzoek blijkt nu dat er in 2010 slechts 21 gevallen van deze fraude plaats vonden. De minister probeert met de afname en opslag van vingerafdrukken van 17 miljoen mensen, een fraude die slechts 21 keer voorkomt, aan te pakken. PrivacyFirst noemt dit “volstrekt disproportioneel en een collectieve schending van de privacy van iedere Nederlander”.

                                Tweede Kamerlid Heijnen (PvdA) gaat een motie indienen om minister Spies (CDA) te dwingen alles op alles te zetten om van de vingerafdrukken in het paspoort af te komen.

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                                  ESM – an ACTA like treaty

                                  Politicians need to be way more open on which democratic grounds they are making treaties. The above videos talks about the ESM draft. Not sure if that is in the final proposal, but democratic papers shouldn’t even contain such words as immunity. What’s going on exactly?

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                                    Real healthy food ingredients

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                                    Click on more for the full version. Or here for the interactive.
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                                      Astroid Threat now better known

                                      astroidsNASA’s WISE team has now updated their latest field research. See video below.

                                      NASA’s WISE mission has tracked down 93 percent of the 1 kilometer diameter or larger asteroids whose size could devastate our planet. The project’s asteroid census has revised the total number of NEO’s down from 36,000 to 20,500. The new NASA study from this may identifies about 4,700 “potentially hazardous” asteroids near Earth.

                                      Dealing with the earth rock threats has, especially since the hollywood movies came out, has been a top 5 action item for NASA. Step B, prevention, is now on the books? Meanwhile commercial space exploration looks for mining them?

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                                        Epic Translation Fail

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                                          The $8 billion iPod

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                                            Facebook shares almost started with losses

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                                            De zakenbanken die de beursgang van Facebook begeleidden, hebben vrijdag de koers moeten steunen om te voorkomen dat die onder de introductieprijs weg zou zakken.

                                            Dat hebben diverse bronnen tegen Amerikaanse media gezegd. Tot het consortium dat de emissie van de aandelen heeft gegarandeerd, behoren banken als Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley en JP Morgan Chase.

                                            Facebook verkocht vrijdag de aandelen tegen 38 dollar per stuk. Aanvankelijk stegen ze nog flink tot 42 dollar, maar aan het eind van de handelsdag zakten ze ineens weg. Van de winst bleef nog maar 23 dollarcent over. Zonder dat banken de aangeboden aandelen hadden opgeveegd, zouden beleggers op de eerste dag al verlies hebben geleden.

                                            Read article @ Volkskrant.nl

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                                              Angela Merkel – wo Berlin ist

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                                                Frits Bolkestein in oog-in-oog

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                                                Exit Euro, Hou EU, EU-parlement voorkom een EU NEE en Exit Griekenland zeker. Dit en meer uit het gesprek met Bolkestein.

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                                                  The Idea TED Didn’t Consider Worth Spreading: The Rich Aren’t Really Job Creators


                                                  TED officials told Hanauer initially they were eager to distribute it. One way or another, TED didn’t see Hanauer’s ideas as being “worth spreading.” The video now appears on YouTube. You can watch it above and decide what you think: Censorship or selectivity? Or, let me add a third option: a desire to please anyone and everyone at the expense of opening deeply-held beliefs and oft-stated mantras to real debate?

                                                  [via OpenCulture]

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