The Most Useful Web Sites for Reporters
The most useful Web sites for reporters - (UsA), an index with loads of search engines and lists.

Open Source Computer-Assisted Reporting

Quick Online Tips That Work: Absolutely Del.icio.us - Complete Tool Collection

and from virtual tags to real world tags: Grafedia is hyperlinked text, written by hand onto physical surfaces and linking to rich media content - images, video, sound files, and so forth. It can be written anywhere - on walls, in the streets, or in bathroom stalls. Grafedia can also be written in letters or postcards, on the body as tattoos, or anywhere you feel like putting it. Viewers “click” on these grafedia hyperlinks with their cell phones by sending a message addressed to the word + “@grafedia.net” to get the content behind the link.

ok, fire ahead, what do you think of the new wordpress css? The idea is to have this as the frame for wordpress only. At the top there will be a navigation bar to switch between wordpress, wiki, static content, calendar etc …

on the site of the World Summit on the Information Society (which is happening right now (prepcom 2)) in the document section, you can find the Preliminary Report of the Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) which discusses who will govern the internet in the future!

CitizenLab :: Version 4.0
The Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada focusing on advanced research and development at the intersection of digital media and world civic politics.

ASVA studentenunie - Fietssloten getest!
Welke kettingsloten zijn moeilijk open te breken en hoe zet je je fiets het beste op slot. Ofwel hoe maak je het de Amsterdamse fietsendief zo moeilijk mogelijk! Lees hier de resultaten van de kettingslottest uitgevoerd in opdracht van de Fiestsersbond.

Op donderdag 24 februari vindt in Amsterdam de volgende Nachtsalon plaats. Deze Nachtsalon zal in het teken staan van de tentoonstelling Wonderwall (videokunst) die te zien is het Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst. In de tentoonstelling Wonderwall worden werken getoond uit de collectie van het Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst. Deze werken geven een historisch kader vanuit de videokunst die de esthetiek van veel hedendaagse VJ performances weerspiegeld. De selectie bevat werk van Nam June Paik, Vasulkas, Marc Burkett, Livinus & Jeep van de Bundt, Paul Dougherty en Dove Eylat.

Een meisje dat ik ken zal daar dj-en. Klinkt /ziet er leuk uit.

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seen it a lot on at5 (or was it salto?) the one minutes, one minute video clips, sometimes great art.

The American military is working on a new generation of soldiers, far different from the army it has.

“They don’t get hungry,” said Gordon Johnson of the Joint Forces Command at the Pentagon. “They’re not afraid. They don’t forget their orders. They don’t care if the guy next to them has just been shot. Will they do a better job than humans? Yes.”

The robot soldier is coming.

As you can see there has been some updating done on this weblog. Don’t have the time for now to add the css and del.icio.us links again. Will do it while redesigning the site. In the mean while, … use this interface