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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.
Read more about me or about my work at elminewijnia.eu
Category Archives: other people's contribution
How 2D art can become 3D
Watch Kustaa Saksi tell about how he transformed one of his illustrations into a 3D object (in de second half of the video)
Compromising is hard yet rewarding
At last I managed to publish part of the interview with Lilia I did in May last year. As I explained back then, there were some technical problems, especially with the sound, that makes the material less attractive for use.
On and off I’ve been working on a solution, but without a result so far. Weird [...]
Yammering without a company
You may have heard of Yammer:
Yammer is a tool for making companies and organizations more productive through the exchange of short frequent answers to one simple question: ‘What are you working on?’ (source)
I would describe Yammer as the in-house Twitter for companies, with more than 140 characters allowed.
Since I don’t work for an organization or [...]
Backchannels and stuff
A little while back I wrote about backchannels:
I’ve been missing something at Reboot ever since Jaiku and Twitter were introduced: the real backchannel conversations.
Today two things crossed my interaction stream on backchannels:
1. Joitske’s blogpost on backchannels and she embedded this:
2. Jere sent me a message that Twirc is now open for beta testing. As a [...]
Lovely conversations during Geeklounge. (62)
Geeklounge Enschede from Elmine Wijnia on Vimeo.
Pedro, Patricia, Joao, Margarita, Tomasz, Olga, Henk, Melina, Robert, Lilia, Alexander, Mark, Edwin, Irina, Ton and me. Thank you for your conversations!
And for clearing my severe headache
(about the number in the title)
Women ≠ Men (56)
And nor should they.
Trine-Maria linked to a rant by Clay Shirky on male versus female behaviour. He rants about reasons why men are ahead of women in their carreers. He concludes that women are not self-promotional enough, whereas men more easily overstate their capabilities and thus bluff their way into a carreer. Women could do [...]
Queen Beatrix totally gets it (34)
NOT!!
Unexpectedly, Queen Beatrix made sure there was a lot of activity on Twitter during Christmas day. It’s a tradition that the Queen sends us (her people) a Christmas message and this year was about loving and caring for each other in difficult times. Sounds like a sensible message, right?
Well…
In her speech she blames modern [...]
Window of opportunity for blogging? (30)
Yes, I’m still using one of those blogging-dinosaurs aka a feed reader to keep track of people. While I keep hearing signs that feed readers are a thing of the past, I spent an hour today to wade through my Twitter subscriptions and added blogs from people to my reader (if they have one).
While doing [...]
More on ebooks (29)
In the light of my post yesterday on the price of e-books I’d like to bring two stories to your attention, both from authors who take a different approach to publish their e-books.
The first story I came across was on Bright.nl, a Dutch magazine/blog on Innovative Lyfestyle. They wrote about Dutch author Ivo Victoria who [...]
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