Blog Interdependent Thoughts maintained since 2002 by Ton Zijlstra.
European citizen in a networked world. Based in the Netherlands, living in Europe, working globally. There are no Others. There is just me and many of you.

I write about how our digital and networked world changes how we work, learn, decide and organize. I explore the tools and strategies that help us navigate the networked world. I am passionate about increasing people's ability to act (knowledge), and their ability to change (learning). Key-words: open data, open government, fablabs, making, complexity, networked agency, networked learning, ethics by design.

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On this day…

There are 5 posts found on this site published on May 10

May 10, 2018
- Sentence Gradients with Neural Networks Peter in his blog pointed to a fascinating posting by Robin Sloan about ‘sentence gradients’. His posting describes how he created a tool that make gradients out of text, much like the color gradients we know. It uses neural networks (neuronal networks we called them when I was at university). Neural networks, in other words […]
- Searching Source of Canonical Landscape Reference I remember once reading an article that if you ask people across cultures to draw their ideal landscape they all prefer the same elements: a woodland, bordering on a grass land, in which some large animal is visible. Water flowing. And a man-made structure. Based on conversations earlier this week I am trying to find […]
May 10, 2014
- Tactical Tech Mac Security Workshop At Re:Publica 14, Elmine and I both attended a workshop on making your Mac more secure. The session was given by the Tactical Technology Collective, a group who’s work and website I can only recommend. Previously this week I wrote a blogpost about them already. Here’s a quick checklist of basic things to make your […]
May 10, 2009
- Next09: Jan Schmidt on Growing Up with the Social Web Jan Schmidt, a hard blogging scientist, is a sociologist who has been looking at the impact and use of social media for a long time. I met him for the first time on the second ever BlogWalk in Nuremberg in 2004, the series of salons on social media that I used to organize with Lilia […]
May 10, 2004
- Blog as Personal Presence Portal In recent weeks I have been playing around with additional tools to enhance the mix of media I have at my disposal when using the internet. Of course my blog has been there for a while already, as has VoIP (Skype), but now I have added two Wiki’s (one public, one private), Yahoo and MSN […]

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