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 December 8

December 8, 2020
- Casting a Wider Blogging Net: Can You Help? Can you help me find additional bloggers to follow? I'm looking for bloggers from various regions (see link). Any tips?
December 8, 2018
- Kom op 3 januari naar Publiek Domein Dag – Public Domain Day 2019 (English TL;DR: January 3rd is Public Domain Day in the Netherlands.) Op 3 januari is het Publiek Domein Dag. Dan wordt gevierd welke teksten, muziek, films, foto’s en kunst in het publiek domein komen. In de regel gebeurt dat 70 jaar na de dood van de maker. Ofwel, van auteurs, artiesten, componisten, ontwerpers, en kunstenaars […]
December 8, 2017
- End of an Era in Flanders Open Data Last week saw an end of an era. The program manager for open data of the Flemish government retired. While parts of the work will go on, no direct successor will be named to the role. At the annual conference of Information Flanders (#tiv2017), Noël van Herreweghe after 6 years of being the driving force […]
December 8, 2007
- Federating Social Networks An interesting and creative group of people is coming together today in Amsterdam at Mediamatic. The event Federating Social Networks is described on Upcoming as: In all the buzz around social network portability, this one-day workshop will explore how social network services and Content Management Services can work together in a so-called federation. With a […]
December 8, 2003
- New blog on the block My partner Elmine has been trying her hand at blogging for a few months now, in Dutch. Now as she is about to start working on her masterthesis, she is switching to English. The blog as of now is called Communigations Her masterthesis will be about blogs: […]one part is to describe the weblog as […]

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