About (short version)

Welcome to my weblog, which I use for keeping track of interesting stuff. It serves as my basecamp for the exploration of the Internet, the "Blogosphere" and life in general.


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Some books I enjoyed!



Great book on wiki adoption!



A classic on corporate blogging!



The most interesting biography of Billy Joel to date!



New York Times Bestseller!



The Book on My Blogging Platform!



Start your own "revolution" and lead it!



The history of Google and Internet Search!




An interesting and addictive device!

June 3, 2008
Interesting video on the Semantic Web
May 2, 2008
Love this presentation of Clay Shirky
April 16, 2008
Bottom-up Enterprise 2.0 only goes so far
April 10, 2008
Question: the killer feature for employee social networks?
February 20, 2008
Wiki markup no good
A bit quiet out here?
February 6, 2008
First meeting on a possible LocalWeb
Thoughts on the lack of Intranet participation
January 30, 2008
IBM on Enterprise 2.0
ING stops activities in Second Life
January 20, 2008
Seven things you didn't know about me
Vote for ING's first corporate blog!
Jeff Bezos quote on negative reviews
January 15, 2008
My Car Headlight Lamp Change Rant
January 14, 2008
Thinking about local communities again
Moved to Feedburner after 2 years
CD Baby loves Marcel
January 7, 2008
Being more like Paul...
December 30, 2007
Postman delivers my highly anticipated packages
December 23, 2007
IE7 makes me change to Firefox immediately
20 things to do on a social network in the office
December 11, 2007
Discussing the unofficial Enterprise 2.0 evangelist role in organisations
No good reports about consumer products on the Internet?
December 10, 2007
Some Star Wars Lego fun
December 6, 2007
My Enterprise 2.0 finding of the day
Love to follow those Seesmic guys!
December 5, 2007
What corporate functions should lead in Enterprise 2.0?
November 22, 2007
Kiva very popular among lenders
November 13, 2007
Some more SharePoint experiences
November 7, 2007
Follow up on how to benefit across knowledge silos
About SharePoint built on SharePoint
November 6, 2007
Switching to Apple: not now I guess?
How to benefit across successful knowledge silo's?
October 23, 2007
Together we can make information find us
October 17, 2007
Microsoft ramps up its Enterprise 2.0 offering: partnering with Newsgator and Atlassian
October 15, 2007
Sharepoint is only 10% of the real challenge
October 11, 2007
Some new wiki adoption resources
October 3, 2007
Who can be against internal blogging (experiments) now?
October 1, 2007
Download and read this key article on Enterprise 2.0!
September 21, 2007
Learning about all things miscellaneous
September 20, 2007
Can I download the Slideshare interface plus content for offline use?
September 19, 2007
Another big Enterprise 2.0 example: an internal social network at Wachovia Corp.
Sharepoint: Enterprise 2.0 via the front door
Back Online: new priorities, more focus
August 4, 2007
Off-line for the next three weeks
August 2, 2007
Managing a local online community without being harassed or worse
July 20, 2007
A Tribute to Vincent van Gogh in Second Life
July 5, 2007
Second Life can be hard work
June 27, 2007
Enterprise 2.0 in 33 slides
June 4, 2007
Great Video of Our Virtual Holland Ghana Party
May 30, 2007
Residents organise charity party at Our Virtual Holland
May 20, 2007
My Review of MediaWiki Administrators' Tutorial Guide
May 16, 2007
IBM shows future of Customer Interaction?
A Wiki in Second Life
May 5, 2007
Finally got Freeview Screen to accept my own movies
May 4, 2007
What will make Second Life grow again?
April 30, 2007
Launch Day at Our Virtual Holland!
April 28, 2007
Drop Zone temporary attached to Our Virtual Holland
April 25, 2007
Meeting some colorful avatars in Second Life
The Queen's Day Launch Party at Our Virtual Holland
April 23, 2007
Twittering in Second Life
ING Renault F1 Team to build a community in Second Life
April 18, 2007
Reading RSS feed titles in Second Life: my new gadget
Our Virtual Holland islands lined up
April 16, 2007
Enterprise 2.0: some management buy-in please
April 11, 2007
Our Virtual Holland featured in The Avastar!
First Community Meetup on Our Virtual Holland
March 27, 2007
My new place in Second Life
March 26, 2007
Some upcoming Second Life partners of ING?
Some Second Life avatars really make you feel good
Choosing my place in Second Life on Our Virtual Holland
March 25, 2007
ING's main building in Second Life
March 23, 2007
Kick-off at ING's Our Virtual Holland
March 22, 2007
Sneak preview on ING's venture in Second Life
March 21, 2007
Enterprise 2.0 does not come costlessly
War for talent, corporate culture and social software
March 20, 2007
The perfect internal blogging infrastructure
Requested: some advice on an internal blogging case
March 15, 2007
Interview with Mizanur Rahman, author of MediaWiki Administrators' Tutorial Guide
News about ING's Our Virtual Holland
March 14, 2007
Second Life Temporary Limiting Signups
March 12, 2007
More books on Second Life coming
Battle For Virtual Holland?
Wikinomics
March 7, 2007
Sony and Lego into Virtual Worlds
March 2, 2007
Can I have one of those screens?
March 1, 2007
ING's Our Virtual Holland under construction
February 28, 2007
Upcoming: review of book on Mediawiki
Introduction of voice in Second Life strongly divides residents
February 26, 2007
Second Life to Blog communication gadget
February 22, 2007
Great article on Second Life macro economics with a message
February 21, 2007
ING enters Second Life to Learn and Facilitate
February 19, 2007
Second Life gets voice!
Did I just invent a new word?
Kids Translation Small Pieces Well Received
February 18, 2007
Is popularity slowly killing Second Life?
February 17, 2007
Discussion about Second Life and World of Warcraft addiction on Dutch Television
February 16, 2007
Semple and Weinberger in one video clip!
February 15, 2007
First Real City in Second Life: Zoetermeer!
February 12, 2007
The Relative Popularity of Second Life across Nations
First Dutch Second Life Seminar?
February 9, 2007
Some Internet Serendipity
February 8, 2007
Some stunning creepy macro photographs
February 7, 2007
Billy Joel's New Song
February 5, 2007
Billy Joel at Super Bowl
January 31, 2007
Giving something back: Dutch Translation of the kids version of Small Pieces Loosely Joint
My Second Experience with BenQ Service
A bit of Windows Vista in Second Life
January 22, 2007
FIR's review of Second Life: the Official Guide
Hilarious clip about Apple iPhone
January 21, 2007
New KM: new tools make knowledge flow
January 18, 2007
Storm keeps me at work
January 8, 2007
Slowing down my pace of blogging
December 18, 2006
Second Life Official Guide: quick preview
Second Life Encounters 18 December 2006
December 11, 2006
Second Life Encounters 11 December 2006
The SLurl to ABN AMRO
December 7, 2006
Win a Real Piece of Art in Second Life!
Second Life eats into my blogging time
Scoble spreads the word on Sinterklaas
December 1, 2006
Two ambitious Dutch companies enter Second Life
My Second Life apartment featured on New World Notes!
November 27, 2006
The Flat World in Gaming
November 25, 2006
From $10 to $1 million in Second Life!
November 24, 2006
Some great Second Life resources
The meaning of Billy Joel songs
November 20, 2006
Should Second Life be rescued by Google or Yahoo?
Second Life: the Official Guide
November 19, 2006
Second Life according to Business Week
Second Life Encounters 18 November 2006
November 8, 2006
Big Brother comes to Second Life: some exploring
Why do companies come to Second Life?
Billy Joel is touring Australia: some resources
November 6, 2006
The Billy Joel Community on the Internet
October 31, 2006
Google Trends: Billy Joel versus Elton John
Google snatches Jotspot: who's next in wiki country?
October 30, 2006
Billy Joel in South Africa: some resources
Socialtext wiki + Sharepoint = SocialPoint
October 27, 2006
Serendipity in Second Life: my experience today
Too late for Crayon launch party due to server restrictions?
October 23, 2006
My first Second Life training
October 22, 2006
Crayon: what are these guys up to?
October 18, 2006
Dutch people: less TV, more Internet
October 16, 2006
Are discussion forums the ultimate Enterprise 2.0 killer-app?
October 15, 2006
Currently Shaping Thoughts on
The We Are Smarter Than Me project
October 6, 2006
BBC: sharing knowledge is power!
October 4, 2006
The best presentations ever list
One hell of an e-learning conference
I am still around!
September 22, 2006
Data, information, knowledge and tacit knowledge
September 19, 2006
Why do I blog & celebrating my 100th post!
September 18, 2006
Wikipedia 2.0 or Citizendium
The Writable Intranet: a nice term
Web 2.0 at Banks: a nice overview
September 15, 2006
Internal blogs pleaaaaasse
The only product presentation I watch
ING experiments with Viral Marketing Campaign
September 9, 2006
Second Life was hacked?
September 8, 2006
Now that's a TV show I like
PhD student's weblogs collection
Second Life will get VOIP soon!
September 6, 2006
What if Second Life gets Skype?
Some PhD research on blogging
The army checks in
New Battlestar Galactica webclip banned through regional lockout
Did Robert Scoble leave Microsoft over blogging?
September 1, 2006
An Industry around Second Life?
Rating your job in public?
August 30, 2006
A short video tutorial on Second Life
August 29, 2006
Collaborative journalism using a wiki
August 28, 2006
Things you could do with a wiki
Some video's on my to do list
A bit of Second Life again
August 27, 2006
Shel's Mac Rant
Back online: things that caught my attention
August 4, 2006
Two weeks offline
August 1, 2006
Nice video of Billy Joel and Brian Adams in Rome
July 24, 2006
Billy Joel in Rotterdam: my treasures
Billy Joel is Blogging!
July 23, 2006
Billy Joel in Rotterdam: the resources
Billy Joel in Rotterdam: my review
Billy Joel in Rotterdam: the set list
July 20, 2006
Billy Joel's interest in Coal Industry revived
Learning about internal blogs and wiki's at Motorola
July 18, 2006
First Wiki Farm in the Netherlands
July 17, 2006
Billy Joel does Australia as well!
July 13, 2006
Do not trust your hosting provider to backup?
Another disturbing documentary on Google
Robert Scoble on Knowledge Management
July 11, 2006
Will Sharepoint hijack Enterprise 2.0?
July 6, 2006
Rocketboom has landed
Listening to Bloggercon IV sessions
Official Billy Joel Video Clips online
June 30, 2006
Meeting FIR in Second Life
June 27, 2006
Socialtext updates DrKW wiki case study
My first comment spam
A great Billy Joel Concert in Vienna
June 26, 2006
My first Second Life Experience
June 22, 2006
Getting addicted to these video's: Loic Le Meur in action
Nice wiki case study
June 14, 2006
A classical case of Google exposure: the Dutch Train Chair Scandal
Additional exposure for my train chair post
June 12, 2006
Reading about Billy Joel's new CD
June 6, 2006
An important addition to Textpattern
A couple of nice podcasts to share
May 29, 2006
Meeting Billy Joel in Rotterdam
May 28, 2006
De stoel: schandaal, pech of slecht management?
May 25, 2006
Accident Hash: a great podcast!
Masterclass Social Software
May 23, 2006
Special visitors to my train chair scandal post
Billy comes to Holland!
May 22, 2006
Some fun with Flickr
The Internet provider and those tiny little users
May 17, 2006
The Chair: scandal, bad luck or bad management?
May 16, 2006
The Biddies live on Podshow
May 9, 2006
Some truth about enterprise wiki's
May 7, 2006
Kids communication tools: implications for the workplace?
The ultimate fan experience
May 2, 2006
I love Naked Conversations...
April 27, 2006
33 wikis project continues on a wiki
April 25, 2006
Fleck alpha testing announced: introduction soon?
April 20, 2006
Internet Brands Acquires Wikitravel and World66 Online Travel Guides
What was achieved at DrKW?
April 17, 2006
Enterprise 2.0 discussion continues
April 13, 2006
Enterprise 2.0
April 5, 2006
Finally got my Google Analytics invitation
March 30, 2006
Is Google bad?
March 27, 2006
33 days and 33 Wiki's
March 22, 2006
Billy does come to Europe!
March 15, 2006
Social software adoption strategy
March 12, 2006
This site in Spanish...?
Knowledge Management right before your eyes!
March 1, 2006
Fleck and the power of buzz marketing
February 27, 2006
Maps all over the place
February 17, 2006
A nice hangout for Mediawiki users and hackers
February 8, 2006
I love good photo blogs!
February 5, 2006
Checking out AdSense
January 30, 2006
Lego goes 2.0
January 26, 2006
The Biddies at your party?
January 23, 2006
When an A-list blogger hits your site
January 18, 2006
The Conversations Network
January 16, 2006
5 Year Wikipedia!
January 15, 2006
Nice tool to publish RSS feeds on your web site
January 13, 2006
My experiences with Benq customer service
January 10, 2006
Good link on Wiki adoption
Billy Joel did a My Lives show!
Some Wiki Case Studies and Articles
January 7, 2006
Will Billy Joel come to Europe?
Some notes on Wiki introduction and adoption
January 4, 2006
As FIR turns 1 with its 100th episode!
Hello World!