August 4th, 2008
I’ve been blogging on dutchproblogger.com for five months now. I’m delighted by the amount of comments and inspiring discussions, yet I’m not completely satisfied about a couple of things:
- Too personal - although this is my personal blog, I still want to offer more information that is relevant for every reader. Thus I’ll post more blog tips and less personal stories. Moreover, I’ve highlighted the last blog tip by featuring it on the frontpage
- The frequency of posts - sometimes I wrote two posts a…
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June 29th, 2008
Lenny Kravitz used to be my music hero. When I was seventeen, I had all his albums lined up in my CD rack - knowing them by heart. When I missed a holiday flirt, I used to listen to Again and when high school drove me nuts, Fly Away was the logical choice.
But during the last couple of years, this love has faded a bit. I started listening to music that can be qualified as “less mainstream” and forgot about the…
Continue reading A Kravitz gig is like meeting the sexy ex
June 18th, 2008
As you might have read on my Twitter page I’m currently in San Francisco to attend the Supernova 2008 conference with Patrick and Arjen. After my visit to the Web 2.0 Expo I didn’t expect to be here so soon again - yet as you can imagine: I don’t really mind!
Supernova is a conference that really digs deep in the theories behind the network age. That attracts an interesting crowd and I got to meet some people who I only used to…
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May 30th, 2008
Ladies and gentlemen, here’s some music for the weekend! The Rumble Strips! My weekend actually hasn’t begun yet, as I’m working on the first chapter of my ebook about blogging. Earlier today, I interviewed Edwin van Mijsbergen from ZBdigitaal about the archive function of blogs. He said some interesting things, which I’ll share with you later. For now, I wish you an excellent weekend and hope to contribute to it by presenting this indie sensation from British town Tavistock. They’ve found…
Continue reading The Rumble Strips, another indie sensation
May 28th, 2008
Yes that’s right, I’m working on an ebook and a conference about blogging. Both will be in Dutch, as I think the English speaking people have enough resources on their hand. Most Dutch people also speak English, yet I feel a local approach is the right way to go. There are major differences between the US and Dutch blogosphere, only the differences in size would be enough reason to go Dutch. Most of the ebook and conference coverage will be…
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May 26th, 2008
Yesterday Edial Dekker and me had a couple of beers in Amsterdam’s most interesting cafe, De Engelbewaarder (The Angelkeeper). We were discussing our upcoming blog conference BLOG08 and tried to think of original ways to promote the whole thing. In order to get a good brainstorm vibe going on, I made two groups of four coasters and asked Edial to write up four PR ideas. I did the same thing. After that, we presented the ideas one by one and perfected or…
Continue reading A twist on a classic brainstorming tool
May 5th, 2008
Although I don’t know one word of Japanese, I did get an article published in the April 9th Edition of Fuji Sankei Business-i newspaper, which is being circulated to 200,000 readers a day nationwide. This is how it happened.
At the end of last March, I received an email from Masaru Ikeda. He’s running a system integration company in Tokyo and writes a weekly column about Internet innovations for the Sankei Newspaper. Masaru mailed me that he’d love to come to the…
Continue reading How I got my first article in Japanese published
May 4th, 2008
As promised, I sometimes just cover random blogging thoughts here. Like things I stumble on when working, reading, or - most of the times - when relaxing. So today I realized that the most self-destructing thing you can do as a blogger is writing when don’t feel like it. Here’s why.
Let’s start with one hell of a cliché: blogging is about passion. Sorry, you may have heard that a hundred times now, yet - as always with clichés - it IS…
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May 2nd, 2008
1939481920Every summer has it’s soundtrack. Last year I listened to Room Eleven while enjoying the parks of Amsterdam, the summer before that, the Beach Boys and the Arctic Monkeys (always a good combination) entertained me during a surf vacation with Peter Evers and in 2005 Gabriel Rios sparked up my trip to Italy. This summer I’ll stroll the Italian beaches while listening to Devendra Banhart.
Devendra Banhart was born May 30, 1981, in Houston, Texas, U.S. but was raised in Caracas, Venezuela from 2 to…
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May 1st, 2008
The LSD discoverer, Swiss professor Albert Hoffman, has died at the honorable age of 102. From 1938 he had been developing lysergic acid diethylamide - also known as lsd-25, acid, blotter acid, window pane, dots, tickets and mellow yellow - in his lab. During the fifties, outlaws like Timothy Leary picked it up and promoted it to a hugely popular drug in the infamous Sixties.
So why do I report about this? Because I witnessed the victims of this drug myself…
Continue reading Father of LSD Albert Hoffman on his final trip
