About this blog
This is my personal blog which I started in 2003. At first it was called Communigations, a variation on Communicative Investigations. The blog transformed itself more into a personal investigation than being a blog on communication and therefore needed a new name.As a fencer, the name of this blog reflects how I write my thoughts into coherent stories, fence them off from all the sidepaths and rapidly go back and forth, covering various topics that interest me.
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Category Archives: conferences
I sent in a proposal for SHiFT
So I’m finally getting out of my comfort zone and proposed a (speaking) session at SHiFT, Lisbon, April 16-17.
SHiFT is a happening, an international conference and unique event, gathering leaders and participants from all walks of life, to discuss and share Social and Human Ideas For Technology.
The conference theme this year is DIY. This is [...]
Shift 2010 (21)
Now that the Shift-site (finally) has been updated with the new dates for the conference, it’s time to start thinking about a story I could share at Shift. There’s not an obvious story on the surface, so I’ll have to digg a little deeper. Hmmm…what could it be?
Bring back the real backchannel
I’ve been missing something at Reboot ever since Jaiku and Twitter were introduced: the real backchannel conversations. I call upon all programmers that can bring back conversation to the conference backchannel.
The first webgeek conferences I attented, like BlogTalk 2.0 in 2004 and Reboot 7.0 in 2005 (yes, we added .0 to everything back then), the [...]
Reboot 11
I’ve been there and I haven’t written about it, yet. It’s all to do with the hectic days/weeks before, and the food poisening afterwards.
Now I’m back on track and ready to share some of the joy of THE conference. Some pics to start.Wednesday, (p)reboot day
Interview with Peter for In Full Flow in Malmö.
Thursday, Reboot day [...]
The story of non-Social Reporting at NEXT09.
As you can see, this video is a summary of the event, as I experienced it. It is not a piece of social reporting, as I promised earlier. Let me explain how that happened.
From the communication around NEXT09 I made two assumptions about the event: one – the theme of the conference is sharing economy, [...]
Next09: Sharing Economy
Next Tuesday and Wednesday the Next09 Conference will take place in Hamburg and I’ll be there in my role as a blogger. My intention is to do less of the text thing and more of the video thing. How that will work out, I have no idea. My video gear is not very practical for [...]
Now here’s something to watch
I’ve just finished watching all chapters of RiP: A remix manifesto. This is a brilliant documentary by Brett Gaylor about
issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers.
Here’s the intro, as an appetizer.
Watch all the other chapters online. With [...]
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Unconference your Birthday: the background story.
It might sound shocking to some, organising a conference in honour of my 30th birthday, but it turned out to be one of the best workshops I ever had.
OK, here’s the background story of why we came up with the idea. Turning 30 seemed like an excellent mark in time to throw a party, a [...]
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This week’s gig: my birthday!
This week will all be about my BirthdayBash: conference and BBQ. Planning such a event soon after a 5 week holiday might not have been the smartest thing, but we booked a venue for the conference and we ordered meat and grills for the BBQ. Now I need to prepare mentally
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Experimenting with stop-motion