↓ Skip to main content

Posts

2010

Week 192

·305 words
A busy week the last one, met with several people busy in the field of open transit data to the point of actively starting projects or planning to integrally solve the problem. Good to see that a lot of momentum (and perceived value) is in that space.

TipiT

·33 words
Zoals mensen misschien al wel zagen aankomen, hier het nieuws op Webwereld met een redelijk verslag: “Fraude nekt online-fooienpot TipiT”

Gone fishing

·63 words
By the time you’re reading this I will have flown off to the Levant to spend three weeks mainly in Damascus, Syria.

How I Twitter

·696 words
I explained the way I twitter to several people over the last weeks and it seems that it is somewhat different than how most people setup their account, so I thought it might be interesting to share.

Hard to be a God

·318 words
Wednesday I went to a performance by a Hungarian theater group showing “Hard to be a God” by Kornél Mundruczó a famous Hungarian director after the story by the Soviet Russian brothers science-fiction writers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.

Weeknotes 183

·292 words
We moved in our new desks and got rid of the old ones. This clears up a lot of space in the studio and we now have a fifth desk open for lease. If you’re design minded and interested in a great place in a creative hub of Amsterdam, get in touch.

Brief tegen censuur

·67 words
Ik ben mede-ondertekenaar van een brief van Bits of Freedom tegen verregaande bevoegdheden van de overheid voor institutionele internet-censuur. Het kunnen killen van websites zonder tussenkomst van een rechter is een bizar gegeven.

Week 181

·258 words
Last week was a short one and mostly spent in preparation of work writing proposals and quotes. I hope we can wrap all that stuff up this week and go back into grand scale production mode.

Week 180

Last week was concerned with finalizing stuff for the first presentation of guadalajara. The current concept was more exploratory, we do not seem to have found the point of relevance yet to move forward.

Zuiverheid

·190 words
In de nacht van vrijdag op zaterdag kreeg onze Dichter des Vaderlands een blok van anderhalf uur radio in Zomernachten om te vertellen wat hij wilde. Ik had me in de dag vergist, maar het stond vannacht ook al op de website. De MP3 is hier uit de podcast te vissen: Zomernacht van Ramsey Nasr.

Week 178

·194 words
This week was dominated by a bunch of things. Preparations for Stekkerfest and touching up the website for that were very important. Also anticipation for the live demonstration of the first PLAY Pilots live game by Fourcelabs.

Uruzgan in the Netherlands

·233 words
Today marks the end of the Dutch presence in Afghanistan and here’s a small data oriented tribute to those that have fallen in service. Inspired by the Home and Away visualization by Stamen, I decided to see if something similar for our Task Force Uruzgan would provide any insight.