BKB, one of Holland’s most successful campaigning agencies, organizes a talent academy every year. It consists of two study trips and ten meetings with well-known politicians, campaigners, and journalists. I’m participating the 2009-2010 edition and have learned quite a lot already. Better yet, I’ve found a couple of new friends. One of them, Justus Bruns, told me a great plan a couple of weeks ago. We were having apple pie and beer when he said: ,,I want to replace all advertising on Times Square with art.” Well, I asked him, what’s stopping you?

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In about fifteen minutes I’m hopping on a plane to New York. Without a laptop. Yeah! Time for some REAL adventures. Edial Dekker and I didn’t book a hotel or anything, we’ll just see what happens. I’m blogging the whole experience in this post. Without a laptop, yet with an iPhone.

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During a very hectic Web 2.0 Expo week in New York City, I did luckily find some time to work on my Dutch ebook about blogging. Chapter two concerns blogs and communities and I figured social media guru Erwin Blom was the man to interview about this material. So while enjoying a couple of beers in an Irish pub, we discussed whether blogs are communities or not.

We had a hard…

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