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Why I use Twitter

Posted by Herko on Feb 14, 2009 in All things Web, Personal notes

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 that dis­cus­sion. The ideas expressed there, as well as some oth­ers I recently came across, have lead me to reflect on the rea­son I use Twit­ter. Read more…

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The sense and nonsense of Twitter

Posted by Herko on Oct 31, 2008 in All things Web, Personal notes

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 pop­u­lar Twit­terific app for my iPhone 3G. I started fol­low­ing a few peo­ple I know of, as I had no idea which ones of my friends were a mem­ber of Twit­ter. I fol­lowed the tweets made by peo­ple like Molly Holtzschlag, Dan Ceder­holm, Jef­frey Zeld­man, Jeremy Keith, Veerle Pieters, Dan Rubin, Derek Feath­er­stone. Peo­ple who I have never met, but whose work I admire.

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informatie moet stromen: semantisch web

Posted by Herko on Oct 28, 2008 in All things Web, Nederlands

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 het werk. Mijn netwerk heb ik ook aangegeven bij hyves.nl, linkedin.com, twitter.com, facebook.com, last.fm, pownce.com… en vast ook wel op andere plekken.
Leuk, die sociale netwerken. Van de over­heid (waar ik werk) verwachten –nee eisen– we dat onze gegevens een­ma­lig gevraagd wor­den, en meer­voudig gebruikt wor­den. Waarom vullen we dan overal onze gegevens weer opnieuw in? Het zijn toch onze gegevens? En ik heb het toch al ergens inge­vuld?
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The Giant Global Graph

Posted by Herko on Feb 12, 2008 in All things Web, Personal notes

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 devel­op­ment of the inter­net and the world wide web, long dis­cus­sions about web 2.0, web 3.0 and all kinds of con­cepts usu­ally fol­low. And when that blog­ger con­sid­ers to rename the world wide web into some­thing as obscure as the Giant Global Graph, this nor­mally is greeted with laugh­ter at that person’s expense. Enter the lat­est weblog post of Sir Tim Berners-Lee. –Huh? Who? Exactly.

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