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 8 posts found on this site published on October 14

October 14, 2023
- Expressing My First Encounter With ODRL My first encounter with #ODRL, Open Digital Rights Language: expressing some questions w.r.t. ODRL usage and enactment for the commons and EU data spaces. #dataspace #dssc #opendata #cc
October 14, 2022
- IndieWeb Plugin for WordPress Blocks An IndieWeb plugin for WordPress block based themes! Nice one @jan@geekcompass.com
October 14, 2019
- Lezenswaardig weblog over service design research bij DUO v @manuelame Iedereen rond digitale transformatie bij de overheid: toevoegen aan je feedreader! (dank @alper voor de tip)
October 14, 2018
- Disintegration of Discourse and Decentralised Tools We’re in a time where whatever is presented to us as discourse on Facebook, Twitter or any of the other platforms out there, may or may not come from humans, bots, or someone/a group with a specific agenda irrespective of what you say or respond. We’ve seen it at the political level, with outside influences […]
October 14, 2005
- Web 2.0: Teenagers using technology During the Web 2.0 conference last week there was a panel with teenagers, mostly 17. The transcript is here. Now we must be careful to read too much into this as these are 5 kids from the Bay Area and probably are not representative of an entire generation, but these to me are the highlights: Q: […]
- Test driving the new Qumana I have been using Qumana since over a year. Started using it after Jon Husband drew the concept on a napkin for me during a diner here in Enschede, in the spring of 2004.The biggest benefits of this tool to me are/were the drop pad, allowing me to create a bread crumb trail of my feedreading […]
October 14, 2004
- Combining Freemind and WikkaWiki Since some time I am an enthusiastic user of Freemind, a great mindmapping software (even if it forces you to think in trees). The wiki’s I use are currently all WakkaWiki, but for my private Wiki I have switched to WikkaWiki, a branch of WakkaWiki because WakkaWiki is no longer developed. One of the absolute […]
- Going Plazes One of the more interesting presenters at BlogTalk last July was Mikel Maron discussing integrating geographical information with new media technologies like blogs. An interesting experiment during that conference was an annotated map of Vienna, where we as visitors could add info to the map through a Moveable Type blog. The blogged info got integrated […]

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