Feb 14, 2009 Posted by Herko

Why I use Twitter

Recently, there has been some buzz about the microblog­ging ser­vice Twit­ter, such as the free news­pa­per De Pers call­ing Twit­ter ‘mind mas­tur­ba­tion’, and there­fore some­thing tossers would use. This inspired an arti­cle on the sub­ject by Floor Drees on the IKKI web­site, which in turn sparked a dis­cus­sion among its vis­i­tors and staff. I am omong those who replied to... read more

Oct 31, 2008 Posted by Herko

The sense and nonsense of Twitter

You prob­a­bly know about Twit­ter, the so-called microblog­ging net­work. If you haven’t heard about it, don’t worry, you’re not miss­ing some­thing vital –I think. But I’m defi­nately not sure, and that is basi­cally what this post is about. I joined Twit­ter on july 18 2008, so at the writ­ing of this post, I’ve tweeted for 3 months. I joined because I wanted to try out the... read more

Oct 28, 2008 Posted by Herko

informatie moet stromen: semantisch web

NB: Dit artikel heb ik geschreven voor het pro­fes­sion­alis­er­ingsnetwerk IKKI, en is in zijn oor­spronke­lijke vorm terug te vin­den op de web­site van IKKI. IKKI is het zoveelse netwerk waar ik lid van ben, en waar ik een profiel heb staan. Mijn werk­er­var­ing en andere CV infor­matie staat ook op monsterboard.nl, werk.nl, werkenbijdeoverheid.nl, linkedin.com en in de ken­nis­bank op... read more

Feb 12, 2008 Posted by Herko

The Giant Global Graph

I posted this arti­cle at designed.nu, a weblog is about design. Design com­men­tary usu­ally focuses on the aes­thet­i­cal and artis­ti­cal side of what is con­sid­ered design. But this par­tic­u­lar post is about the orig­i­nal design of the inter­net, the world wide web and the giant global graph. –Huh? The what? Exactly. Let me explain. When just about any blog­ger com­ments on the... read more