Digs.be - Photo Galleries: Photo Galleries??? "content="Digs, jongeren, video, weblog, bloggen,"

B.V.L.G.: Het einde van telenetblog.be ? Leve digs.be !: "Het ziet er dus naar uit dat België een blogplatform rijker is." Tu quoque!

‘Cross The Breeze: "I’m also excited to be invited for a roundtable on blogging together with Bert Van Wassenhove and Clo Willaerts, guided by Marco Derksen" :-)

YouTube - President Clinton Last Days in Office @ YouTube: Kevin Spacey is in it!

SEOmoz Blog | Time Distribution for Effective Online Marketing: ". When in doubt, read the Wikipedia article on your subject, then create something 100X better."

Dries Buytaert receives Drupal.com domain from OpenDomain.org | drupal.org: "The domain had been obtained by OpenDomain.org as part of their effort to become involved in open source projects by buying expensive domains and letting projects build websites" --> I don't get this one. Where does OpenDomain get the money from to buy domains from cybersquatters?

:::Mo(nu)ments::: �Ine Dehandschutter: Skynet Blog Templates: "I had a sneaky preview of the new Skynet Blog Templates, and damn they are sexy!"

Arash and Kelly Genius Pad : "Giant Sticky Note pads, just like the real thing! 30cm x 30cm, comes in 100 sheets, 150 Sheets or 300 sheets all in Classic Yellow." Like post-its, only bigger.

A bluffers guide to social media? - Digital Bulletin - Digital news by Email - Brand Republic: "Conversation: whereas traditional media is about 'broadcast', content transmitted or distributed to an audience, social media is better seen as conversational, two-way."

Pika - really really freaking cute if you ask me! The real life pikachu! - Google Video: "The pika may look like a hamster, but is actually a cousin of the rabbit." With comments from the amazing David Attenborough.

Glossary of sexual slurs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "AC/DC - (North America) bisexual; not named after the rock band but used in the 'goes both ways' sense, much like the French 'marcher �voile et �vapeur', to go by sail and by steam"

motionbox: PingPongMatrix: "from a japanese tv show, just awesome"

Fund a coup - Help us raise cash for a military coup: "Fed up of watching someone else's war? Start your own! Pledge $1 to start a military coup in your name, or in the name of a loved one."

Barcamp Brussel @ BVLG: "Het is toch verbazingwekkend dat tientallen geeks zich op een zondagmorgen naar Brussel begeven, daar bijna allemaal met hetzelfde T-shirt rondlopen, de ganse dag met een laptop rondzeulen (en op zoek gaan naar een stopcontact voor oplaadstroom), luisteren naar allerlei presentaties en deelnemen aan discussies, zich gewillig laten fotograferen en filmen en nadien allemaal met een goed gevoel terug naar huis gaan."

BarCamp Brussels @ zylstra.org: "Big kudos to Peter Forret and team for organizing it all, and also to Skynet who made the excellent venue and excellent catering possible (thanks Clo!) On to BarCamp Vienna next Saturday to bring the same message. ..."

The Internet’s Biggest Google Whores

attractivenesScale-782459.jpg (JPEG Image, 600x552 pixels): Attractiveness scale. For Peter :-)

Bu.llet.in: "a GEO based content sharing application. It organizes the information and people under relevant organization, city, region and country, collectively called as GEO."

BarCamp Brussels 2006 - Overview @ jurriaanpersyn.com

La crème des blogs…: "Le trio des produits gagnants : rtl-tvi, cinétélérevue, skynetblogs."

De activiteitsgraad op drie Vlaamse blogdiensten doorgelicht" by Maarten Schenk.

24 septembre sous le signe de Skynet: "... Grand merci a l'équipe des Skynet blogs d'avoir organisé cette party au Mexican grill d'Uccle ce 24 Septembre !"

No Barcamp for me...: "... Yesterday, the second edition of Barcamp took place in Brussels."

Pitching Bloggers: 10 Things That Make Bloggers Angry: "Not understanding the blog's purpose or niche"

Video Egg: "The VideoEgg platform powers sites with hundreds to millions of users. Simply drop a few lines of code into your site and your users are able to upload and share video with the easiest video tool on the net. "

Why Search Sucks & You Won't Fix It The Way You Think: "the strong habit that years of using the DOS Of Search interface have ingrained in searchers, for better or worse"

Barcamp Brussels Bis: "Put seventy-five geeks in a pleasant environment with coffee, cookies and Wifi, let them talk about the stuff they feel passionate about and see what happens: Barcamp Brussels."

Avoid Bursting the Video Bubble: "Stop the viral disease."

The Future of the Internet II (Pew Internet): "A low-cost global network will be thriving and creating new opportunities in a 'flattening' world."

God

Results of New Influencers blogger survey

Making your blog popular through content (Neil Patel/Pronet Advertising): "You might be able to do this by optimizing your blog or by using the diverse social mediums out there today. These methods are great and can really boost your popularity, but they are usually not in your control."

Halfsuit for boxer-wearing telecommuters: Businessbibs: "Nothing speaks to freedom louder than a halfsuit" Damn sexy, too!

How to swear in Latin: "Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo!"

Der Bonker (EN subtitles): by illustrator Walter Moers. I'm glad it's Hitler and not e.g. prophet Mohammed. :-)

Fodey.com - newspaper article generator

Skynet, une menace pour les m�dias traditionnels? - Olivier De Doncker: "est un signe tr�s encourageant pour l’ensemble du march�apr�s un p�riode tr�s dure entre 2002 et 2004"

OKCupid! The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test: "Being smart isn't as socially crippling as it once was, and even more so as you get older: eventually being a Pure Nerd will likely be replaced with the following label: Purely Successful"

BBC NEWS | Business | Branson makes $3bn climate pledge: "The Virgin boss said he would commit all profits from his travel firms, such as airline Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Trains, over the next 10 years."

www.myspace.com/c64orchestra: "Within the micromusic scene, game computers do not merely function as a game console, but as a musical instrument as well." Nice!

Back in skinny jeans: How to explain RSS the Oprah way: "RSS stands for: I’m “Ready for Some Stories”"

Social Network Marketing: Know What You're Getting Into: ". Social networkers, especially those in the juicy 18-26 year old demographic, are pretty savvy and not easily fooled."

Google vs éditeurs belges: See you later Alligator: "Je serais curieux de voir les chiffres Skynet et RTBF. Any autorized people in da houze ?"

KIDS SPHERE HOTEL - Cocoons for sleeping: I was there a while ago and find it hard to believe they let children sleep there.

Blogging the agencies - are we doing a good job?: "We had some interesting internal discussions on the fact whether we should blog all the stuff we pick up, because - hi there - the competition reads the blog too. "

Five Tips to Increase Your Likeability | PI: "Judgmental people are usually easy to spot because they are the ones eating alone in the lunch room."

God is Imaginary - 50 simple proofs: "The evidence is all around you."

Sense.PSFK: MySpace is Over: "The ability to reach kids in their own world through their own medium is priceless, but it only works if companies continue to play by the existing rules."

Nothing: " No idea what to give that person on your Christmas list who has everything? Give them Nothing, which is a steal at $6.28."

Web 2.0 Winners and Losers: "What's Web 2.0's killer app? And which app simply kills our will to live?"

Profs, bloguez !: "Parce qu'il n'est pas toujours simple de conseiller des enseignants sur le choix de la plate-forme : certains veulent être sur Skyblog pour que les élèves y accrochent, d'autres aiment le côté '.be' de Skynet (impression de proximité ..."

Gucci: look! No Flash! I hope this is the new trend. Flash makes search engine spiders blind for the website's content. Plus, Flash has become a bit annoying.

it's like television, but nicer.: "neave.tv is an experimental use of video over the web... To watch, you'll need a broadband connection (>1mb) and a fast computer (1GHz or higher)." But definitely worth it!

moo | we love to print: "We love the web but you cannot put it in your pocket"

AMG subjective character analysis (.jpg) --> maybe an idea for a tattoo?

Companies wake up to blogs' barking: "Many firms have started to pay attention as a rapidly expanding slice of cyberspace is devoted to vitriolic, often obsessive blogs listing the shortcomings of well-known companies. Mostly, the contents of such sites are anecdotal. But they can become a significant rallying point for a company's critics."

The morning after Challenge of the I: titanenstrijd: Jo Caudron vs Joseph Jaffe. I think Jo should write a book too :-)

Working Class Blogger: " Work. Blog. Life. How does it all come together? It's different for everyone. Here's a simplified snapshot of how it works for me. Download working_blogger.pdf "

Why Text Ads Are Best: "eMarketer reports that mobile users prefer text to search and news services."

MySpace cowboys - September 4, 2006: "Some 87% of users today are 18 or older; 52% are 35 or older, according to comScore. Might MySpace become too big and broad and successful to be cool?"

The Coming Dramatic Decline of Youtube - Blog Maverick: "Take away all the copyrighted material and you take away most of Youtube's traffic. Youtube turns into a hosting company with a limited video portal."

SUPERTOUCH » Blog Archive » LA///BANSKY’S “BARELY LEGAL” SHOW VIP SNEAK PEEK…: "Highlights included a live pink elephant and a vandalized delivery truck INSIDE the gallery

Lets All Build Wall Gardens: "They (...) used to mock Apple for having a walled garden approach to digital music. iPod + iTunes + Apple DRM = Money. Well now they are building their own walls - Microsoft has Zune. "

BlogTalkRadio: "A new talk radio technology that allows bloggers/podcasters to broadcast live streaming radio shows, while accepting telephone calls from listeners and hosting show guests."

The Dutch are the world s tallest people - Yahoo! News: and the Americans are the fattest, no?

amandacongdon.com/America: "We are asking you, THE FORCE, to suggest points of interest across the USA. You live in lots of different places and are all experts in those various places....you are also experts in the places where you used to live." Earth as your browser - another really goodlooking application.

The "Citizendium": "an experimental new wiki project that combines public participation with gentle expert guidance"

The Mammöths live on stage gig @ Google Video. Local band with a Heavy Metal Umlaut and the most sexy bass player I've ever met.

Rational Geocrapic: the gprs-blogging experiment of Jesse Wynants - including the cult video De Atlantische Zwemkever (via i-wisdom)

Fascinating Emerce e.day Keynote trailer @ YouTube made by Ben Hammersley for his speech at last week's Emerce eDay. He made sure it was shown between the morning keynotes by the Google Earth and Amazon guys, but by the time it was his time his "vision" got blurred. Probably hadn't been able to resist the call of the Rotterdam coffeeshops ;-)

AlterNet: MediaCulture: Why Do We Love Being Shocked and Disgusted?: "Somehow, sometime, our aesthetics got grosser"

Blogcritics.org: Ten Things That Will Happen to TV and Newspapers: "Video on the Net, or VON, is beginning to cause excitement in the opinionati, that class of thinker and speaker who gets to call the next hot topic."

Achtung Hippie! : Reflections on the Burning Man Scam: "Whatever Burning Man supporters claim, know this, the event is a 24/7 bacchanal of booze, drugs, nudity, S&M, public sex, and bad art, all done in a scorching flat dry oasis of misery that reminded me of the surface of Mars."

briteclick: "We like to think of it as Web 3.0". Found in The Museum of Modern Betas.

5 ways to building a better blog: Content and Consistency - the new blog mantra.

Train to eDay @flickr.com: picture taken by Coolz0r. From left to right: Tom De Bruyne, me, Robin Wauters and JP De Clerq. I'm glad no-one took pictures on our way back because my activity level was really low by then :-)

Stormtrooper effect (& the Inverse Ninja Law): "What would happen if Imperial Stormtroopers and (Star Trek) Redshirts got in a firefight?"

: "What would happen if Imperial Stormtroopers and (Star Trek) Redshirts got in a firefight?"

: "What would happen if Imperial Stormtroopers and (Star Trek) Redshirts got in a firefight?"

Five Podcast Myths Debunked: "iTunes is flooded with failed podcasts produced by marketers who ignored the two "c"s of podcasting: content and consistency."

How to Dissuade Yourself from Becoming a Blogger - WikiHow: "Rest easy in the knowledge that it's perfectly okay and respectable to not have a blog at all. "

Six n+1 degrees of separation.: "Stanley Milgram's famous six degrees of separation a fraud? Judith Kleinfeld thinks so."

I know I look older: happy birthday, Bert! And remember: beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Challenge of the I 19 Sept. @ Brussels. Joseph Jaffe is speaking. Bloggers who don't want to pay the 545 € entry fee but still want to see Jaffe, contact me to get in for free.

Barcamp Brussels is approaching

Does Social Sharing Change the Game?: the 30boxes vision of productivity apps in an increasingly social age. "the critical question, “what are my friends (co-workers, family, etc.) doing?” can obtain a loftier standing in our organizational scheme."

Treatment with 'friendly' bacteria could counter autism in c: "Autistic children often suffer bowel conditions."

Bloggers blootgelegd: "Insites en Skynet hebben begin augustus een onderzoek gedaan naar het profiel van de gemiddelde blogger. Van de 10.000 gecontacteerde bloggers ouder dan vijftien - Skynet telt intussen meer dan 103.000 weblogs - vulden in totaal 1.303 ..."

If You Want My Advice . . . - what a 50 year old wish he'd known in his 20's: "Accept gracefully what you cannot change"

Don't Advertise in Social Networks-- Yet: "BzzAgent's founder and CEO says marketing with, not at, online communities will better generate word of mouth-- and sales."

B2B vs. B2C Email Marketing: "Premiere Global Services's SVP of marketing discusses how to fine tune your strategy to speak to your target and boost results."

Blogmusik | Free Internet virtual ipod for Music Albums playlist Mp3 (BETA VERSION). How long before the the RIAA makes there life hard? Bets are on now.

Gary Brolsma & New Numa!: this is the worst example of "sucking up on the consumer generated content generation" i've seen so far. Complete with trailer on YouTube etc...

Personality Results: "You are sociable, outgoing, energetic, and lively. You prefer to be around people much of the time. You are generally calm and composed, reacting moderately well to situations that most people would describe as stressful. Novelty, variety, and change spice up your life and make you a curious, imaginative, and creative person. People see you as tough, critical, and uncompromising and you have less concern with others' needs than with your own. You like to live for the moment and do what feels good now. Your work tends to be careless and disorganized."

YouTube - Muppets Swedish Chef Collection: The final proof that, when it comes to ingredients, it's either kill or get killed :-)

quote - patrick_ 71 featuring Vitalski

Wired News: The Ultimate Blog Post: "Digg: Hey, cool, someone wrote an article about Digg!" LOL

Wooster Collective: BREAKING: The Story Disneyland Doesn't Want You To Know: "Families visiting Disneyland on their holiday this week saw a life-size Guantanamo bay inmate standing inside the Rocky Mountain Railroad ride at Disneyland in Anaheim California". The artist: Banksy. Respect.

Brad Pitt: I'll marry when everyone can - Yahoo! News: "Brad Pitt, ever the social activist, says he won't be marryingAngelina Jolie until the restrictions on who can marry whom are dropped". In other words: when hell freezes over. That's SOME excuse, Brad!

Google's Blacklist: "Google’s Blacklist" of phishing sites includes some domains owned by Belgians, like apps.be owned by Patrick Bogaerts (Hasselt), detorre.be owned by Daniel Dumon (De Haan), ecomec.be owned by Pierre Wampach (Loupoigne), smessaert.be owned by Peter Smessaert (Waardamme), loindevant.be owned by Laurent Van Eeckhout (Bruxelles), musicbooster.be owned by Rik Malfliet (Destelbergen), rodekruisdenderleeuw.be owned by Koen Vanbelleghem (Iddergem), and cassio.be owned by Stephane Vidouse (Beauraing). Watch whoever has ftp access to your servers, guys!

The Observer | UK News | Why the iPod is losing its cool: "Industry-watchers warn that the iPod could soon be regarded by teenage cynics as their 'parents' player' because a mass-market product rarely equates with edgy fashionability"

How to dress like a Mac » LifeClever: "Stand with your hands in your pockets a lot, but keep the thumbs out"

PodSigns: Hearing Reloaded: "Most Americans believe that people are ruder today than they were decades ago, according to poll released last October by AP-Ipsos. ABC News blames, in part, "self-absorbed communication gadgets and a demand for instant gratification."

Lonelygirl15 is an art project by independent filmmakers: "the official site is down, but Danah has the best analysis "

Beerfest: In the mood for something juvenile?! Then why not send a friend/colleague a beer burp :-)

New Music Video From David "The Hoff" Hasselhoff - "Jump In My Car" @ google video: irrestible! :-)

Intel cutting 10,500 jobs

List of Internet phenomena - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: numa numa etc...

BlogsNow 27 Says-It.com: church sign generator, concert ticket generator, pave the moon, etc

Subliminal advertising in spam (.gifs to prove it): "One of the frames (which contains the actual spam message) remains visible for 17 seconds."

YouTube IPO Soon? (Tom Taulli/Blogging Stocks)

Are newspapers and magazines dying? (Don Dodge/Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing): "I don't read newspapers or magazines anymore, at least not printed versions. I stopped subscribing 8 or 9 years ago."

Internet users like short videos (Ars Technica): "If the rise of sites like YouTube has taught us anything, its that people like short clips of other people doing stupid things. That conclusion is bac"

Older Fathers More Likely to Have Autistic Children: "Autism is a growing problem, affecting 50 children in every 10,000, compared with just five in 10,000 only 20 years ago. This increase appears to be partially due to more awareness of the condition and changes in the definition of classic autism to include autism spectrum disorders. However, it could also be that there is an increase in the incidence of autism, experts say"

The Blogofractal: "The Blogofractal - From the makers of the Blogosphere, Blogocube, and Blogodrome."

Datanews: Jo Caudron plant nieuwe webagency: "Blijkbaar is Jo Caudron bezig aan de oprichting van een nieuw webagency."

myIPinfo.net - What is my IP address info?

The History of the Personal Homepage

Baby Toupee OMG :-)

Nokia to integrate satnav into N-series devices: "Built in GPS in N-series phones". Can't wait to test it. Of the features of my (now dead) p91Oi, I miss TomTom Mobile most.

Sony Ericsson P990i smart phone: "How the mighty has fallen... " Better stick to that N91 for a while then...

Bazar Curieux 2006

Random Sampling from a Search Engine's Index: "Ziv-Bar Yossef"

Skynet veut devenir n°1 de l'info belge en ligne: "Skynet a lancé il ya 10 jours une plateforme de news baptisée Skynet Actu reprennant des dépêches d'agence, ainsi que des vidéos, des photos, des archives et un agenda, le tout dans les deux langues nationales (Néerlandais et Français). ..."

How to Crash Internet Explorer: "Be warned, if you are running Internet Explorer, your browser will most likely crash, taking all your currently open windows with it, and possibly rendering your system unstable"

The trouble with YouTube: "It attracts a lot of viewers, but can “user-generated” video make money?"

Kid City TV: "Eind oktober lanceert Skynet, Kid City TV. Het wordt een online TV-model met cartoons, nieuws, filmpjes en creaties van kinderen. Indien Kid City TV gelanceerd wordt op het platform van Belgacom TV zou het wel eens rechtstreekse ..."

Berners-Lee calls for Web 2.0 calm (Gavin Clarke/The Register): "Five years after the first internet bubble burst, we're now witnessing the backlash against Web 2.0 and a plethora of me-too business plans, marketing pitches and analyst reports exploiting the nebulous phrase."

TV FREE BURNING MAN: "daily videos from burning man" (wish I was there)

Dethklok - Metalocalypse: "The show is described as 'Spinal Tap meets Scooby-Doo meets Norway.'"

Microsoft adCenter Labs Demonstration: URL: www.skynet.be
Gender: Male-oriented, with the following confidence:
M:0.87
F :0.13
Age: <18 Oriented
(via Netlash)