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Six Months In, And 600 Posts Later . . . The Worlds Of Blogging and Journalism Collide (In My Brain)
Today’s article is written by Erick Schonfeld, co-editor of world’s largest tech blog TechCrunch. Erick has one impressive track record, since he has been covering startups and technology news for 14 years. He ran…
Continue reading Article of the Day: The world of blogging according to TechCrunch’s Erick Schonfeld
I use Fleck, Google Reader, Twitter, and Delicious. So that basically means I’m sharing loads of articles everyday. Yet I have the feeling, no, I’m sure, that most of these links get lost in the overwhelming amount of social bookmarks and Twitter updates. And yes, that fine. Except when it comes to those posts that have a little something extra. Posts every blogger or web-savvy should read. From now on…
Continue reading New category, Article of the Day: skills for journalists
After a rather impressing Rolling Stones concert in Budapest during the summer of 2007, me and four friends decided to start a band ourselves as well. Not with the ambition to become as good as The Rolling Stones of course, yet we felt like it would be fun to practice every now and then and have some beers afterwards. I mean, every guy should at least play in a sports…
Continue reading First time on stage with my band Christina Five
The last couple of months I’ve covered three conferences for The Next Web: Le Web 3 in Paris, LIFT08 in Geneva and Plugg in Brussels. Before that, I didn’t really supplied my readers with live coverage. So when I opened my macbook in Paris, I was pretty surprised by the energy and the attention conference blogging asks. You have to listen, write and think about what the speaker is saying…
Continue reading Conference blogging made easy: a few tips
Yesterday was hectic day. First I went to the Web 2.0 conference PLUGG in Brussels, to do some hard conference blogging. It was a fairly interesting and well-organized conference. However I did find out that I hate panels. See the Next Web for more coverage.
I had to leave kinda early, to show up at the Dutch Bloggies – The Dutch Oscars for blogs – in The Hague. The Next Web…
Continue reading This is one proud editor in chief!
Last month I was reading Blogging Heroes: Interviews with 30 of the World’s Top Bloggers by Micheal A. Banks. One of the thirty bloggers featured in this book is Dave Taylor. On Askdavetaylor.com he answers tech questions of his visitors. He inspired me to start a blog version of this concept. So, do send me your blog questions and I’ll give you my answer. You can reach me by sending…
Continue reading Ask a Blogger Part 1: How do I get attention?
When Mark Everett performs these days, he only needs one man besides him on stage: ‘the Chad’. Together with Edial Dekker and Peter Evers I drove 2,5 hours – which is a really long drive for Dutch standards – to see these two men playing the beautiful music of Eels in the theater of Enschede (Try to pronounce that if you don’t speak Dutch, The Chad came up with enchiladas).…
Continue reading An intense evening with Eels in Enschede
On a daily bases, I have to at least explain twice what Web 2.0 is and what it means for us. Unfortunately too many people shrug their shoulders after my lyric and slightly persuasive story about this revolution. Sometimes however, a somewhat smarter person does get excited about the new developments. He or she wants to learn more! Debuzzing the buzzword Web 2.0! From now on, I can refer to…
Continue reading Let’s get you started with Web 2.0 news
This weekend was all about photography for me. Let’s start with the most interesting part: I’ve visited the MAGNUM exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in my hometown Amsterdam. The independent photo agency celebrates its 60th birthday, thus the extra attention. Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and David Seymour founded MAGNUM in 1947. They were convinced that photography was the best medium to document world events and raise public awareness.…
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