Posted in privacy on May 7th, 2009 No Comments »
Some time ago I had a discussion at the Rathenau institute with Geert Munnich about a new project they are setting up (the picture on the side I took of Geert and Mirjam Schuijff to show them that it is not only information they publish themselves that may harm their privacy but also pictures someone [...]
Posted in Politics on Sep 7th, 2008 No Comments »
I recently came across this website that is dedicated to fact checking on political statements in the USA. If you listen to the candidates for US president it is often very hard to know if they are talking the truth, bending the truth in their direction or lying outright. Interesting to see that this website [...]
Posted in Politics on Nov 19th, 2007 No Comments »
I came across this article in the paper on Saturday about the fact that civil servants are adding and changing information on Wikipedia during working hours. Some time ago I blogged about the Wikiscanner and of course one can see more and more how important transparency is. There have been numerous cases where with the [...]
Posted in governance on Oct 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
When I start to work on something new the first thing you do is find a lot of information about the subject you are going to deal with. However, information only gets you started. In order to really understand a subject it is essential to talk to people that have dealt with it before. You [...]
Posted in diversity, Politics on Sep 27th, 2007 2 Comments »
Bill sent me this article that describes how voters have a systematic bias regarding some economic effects. The article questions the fact that voters in general have a bias for anti-market, anti-foreign, anti-efficiency loss of work and a pessimistic outlook. This systematic bias of course would lead to bad decisions since the errors do not [...]
Posted in crowdsourcing, diversity, Politics, social networks on Sep 16th, 2007 No Comments »
First have a look at the video: The way I see it the idea behind this video is that until now images have been used for a lot of bad reasons. Their message on their website is: So ask yourself this. If you had the entire world’s attention for just a few minutes, what story [...]
Posted in long tail, paticipation, social networks on Sep 6th, 2007 No Comments »
Some books are very helpful in making you understand developments. This summer I have read a book called “The Cluetrain manifesto”. Central theme of the book (which by the way is written in 2000 but started as as website in 1999) is the statement that markets (and a lot of other things) are conversations. The [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 26th, 2007 No Comments »
It has been a long time since last post due to vacation and various other activities. But even in vacation time you can still enjoy the possibilities of all the new channels of communication and communities. There is a (closed) discussion group I am member of that deals with various political subjects. Many of the [...]
Posted in diversity, long tail, recommandation on Jul 9th, 2007 1 Comment »
This is such an interesting example of how our new production of information can go wrong:This is an interview with Christine Boutin, the French minister of housing, about the conspiracy that George W Bush is behind the attack on the WTC towers on 9/11. A small translation of the first part goes like this: I [...]
Posted in governance, Politics, Social Software, workspace on Jul 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
Does Wikipedia work or doesn’t it? That is the question.There is a lot of discussion on what the quality of Wikipedia is and how we should use it. An interesting point of view is the comparison with Open Source software. I think there are two quite important distinctions how Wikipedia and the Open Source movement [...]
Posted in Politics, workspace on May 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
Yesterday we had a meeting for the political party I am active in (the PVDA in Arnhem). The subject was participation of citizens in the decisions the local government is taking. Often decisions effect the direct environment of the citizen itself. It is amazing how little trust people can have in the capabilities of groups [...]
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