http://www.zylstra.org/blog/ en-us 2010-03-11T15:50:21+01:00 http://www.zylstra.org/blog/archives/2010/03/new_fablab_in_t.html Yesterday saw a great turnout at the FabTable, the regular meet-up of the Dutch FabLab community, held every 6 weeks. Our hosts were Thuur, Bart and Peter at the brand new FabLab Groningen. They opened their doors March 1st (official... Innovation Ton 2010-03-11T15:50:21+01:00 http://www.zylstra.org/blog/archives/2010/03/tim_berners_lee.html Last year Tim Berners Lee made a call for 'Raw Data Now' at the TED conference. This year he is back, to show the TED audience what has been created with open data in the mean time. A great video... conferences Ton 2010-03-09T16:25:53+01:00 http://www.zylstra.org/blog/archives/2010/03/fablab_barcamp.html Last Saturday Karsten Joost and Axel Grischow organized the first meet-up in Germany of people interested in FabLab. There was room for 40 people in the venue, and that number quickly filled up. In fact there was a waiting list... Ton 2010-03-01T20:14:00+01:00 http://www.zylstra.org/blog/archives/2010/02/civil_servant_2.html 'Ambtenaar 2.0', Civil Servant 2.0, is a thriving Dutch community of over 3.000 people who are interested in bringing Web 2.0 and its principles in to the way our government and administration works. It started early 2008 and has grown... conferences Ton 2010-02-28T22:35:17+01:00 http://www.zylstra.org/blog/archives/2010/02/an_emblem_for_o.html Open Government Emblem A few days ago the American Sunlight Foundation launched a logo for 'Open Government'. The Sunlight Foundation is working to increase government transparency in the US. In March they will launch a big campaign to get more... misc Ton 2010-02-23T16:22:07+01:00 http://www.zylstra.org/blog/archives/2010/02/can_semantic_we.html The day before yesterday I had the pleasure of speaking at the Free University of Amsterdam (VU) to about a 100 people of the Dutch Semantic Web commnunity. In my talk I gave an overview of the current situation in... conferences Ton 2010-02-14T16:37:25+01:00 http://www.zylstra.org/blog/archives/2010/01/fablab_year_boo.html We in the Dutch FabLab community just released a year book for the FabLab community. The first ever year book actually. Consistent with FabLab principles the release was printing the book physically in the CabFabLab in the Hague, and sharing... communities Ton 2010-01-28T16:03:55+01:00 http://www.zylstra.org/blog/archives/2010/01/do_you_know_aca.html In blog based discussions there has been talk of 'effective' group sizes and network sizes in the past (see some of it here from 2003 and 2004). Most of that however was always based on anecdotal 'laws' or Dunbar's number... Effectivity Ton 2010-01-10T20:34:31+01:00 http://www.zylstra.org/blog/archives/2009/12/rotterdam_unive_2.html Before the start of the learning community project I did at the Rotterdam University for Applied Sciences, Elmine and me did a workshop on web2.0 and networked learning (connectivism) for a number of people. Most of these were group managers... communities Ton 2009-12-19T18:04:08+01:00 http://www.zylstra.org/blog/archives/2009/12/ecofont.html Leaving through a weekly and reading an article on greenwashing and 'deep' green marketing, I noticed something in the right hand bottom corner. It read: "Ecofont The articles on pages 14-19 are printed with Ecofont Spranq Eco Sans, a letter... Innovation Ton 2009-12-13T14:44:31+01:00 http://www.zylstra.org/blog/archives/2009/11/enschede_geeklo.html This afternoon / tonight we had a GeekLounge, after the last geek dinner in May '08. We had a pleasant round of conversations with artist Marc Otte, resident philosopher Johnny Søraker, start-up running Melina McKim, researchers Robert Slagter and Lilia... people Ton 2009-11-29T21:50:54+01:00 http://www.zylstra.org/blog/archives/2009/11/we_installed_ou.html Today we installed our first LED light bulb. We got it as part of a national action by the 'Nationale Postcodeloterij' ('national zip-code lottery' where your zipcode is your lottery number). In this action all 2.5 million households that take... technology Ton 2009-11-28T20:52:27+01:00 http://www.zylstra.org/blog/archives/2009/11/fibre_to_the_ho.html It seems it is finally coming in our neighbourhood: optical fibre connections into our home. It means 60Mb internet connection is now within reach, and we soon can leave our 6Mb ADSL connection behind. Brings back memories from when I... misc Ton 2009-11-26T10:26:55+01:00 http://www.zylstra.org/blog/archives/2009/11/km_made_in_holl.html Three weeks ago saw the second edition of KM Made in Holland. An initiatieve of professor Robert de Hoog of University of Twente and Frank Lekanne-Deprez of the Zuyd University for Applied Sciences, that aims to bring together researchers and... conferences Ton 2009-11-25T22:19:11+01:00 http://www.zylstra.org/blog/archives/2009/11/ministerial_ego.html I am here in Malmo for the 5th EU ministerial conference on eGovernment. Elmine and I are staying in Copenhagen, and I hopped across the bridge into Malmo/Sweden to attend the conference. The conference venue, and European flags in... conferences Ton 2009-11-21T17:03:12+01:00