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 4 posts found on this site published on July 8

July 8, 2020
- Getting to Like Obsidian Getting to like Obsidian.md a lot, even though in beta. First time in 4 years I think this (in combination with Zotero) is a potential way out of Evernote for me.
July 8, 2012
- Meanwhile over at MakerHouseHolds.net…. I have continued to chronicle my path to a working mini FabLab at home over at MakerHouseHolds.net (which is a pendant to MakerHouseHolds.eu, a site to start collecting material around making in the context of globally networked, resilient local communities.) So head on over to read how Elmine and I put together the electronics for […]
July 8, 2009
- Reboot 11 – Transparent Government, Attitude and Activism Taking it on the Chin In the previous post I wrote about how the Danish government officials at Reboot had to wade through a lot of suspicion and frustration from the participants before getting to the actual discussion at hand. As David Weinberger said, they took it on their chin. In this posting I want […]
July 8, 2004
- BlogWalk 3.0 Aftermath The third blogwalk meeting, about weblog networks, went well. It was different from the last two times: more people, less overlap in who knew eachother before. A number of people signed up for the meeting at the last moment, but that worked out nicely too. The meeting was sort of a warm-up for BlogTalk the […]

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