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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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How could I not blog this :) (17)
Today Henriette ‘tagged’ me and many others as a change-ninja.
a change-ninja is a person who is advocating and preaching change in some ways, it’s basically a person who has dedicated their life to change, either in form of their job, their thoughts or the way they speak their mind and voice. A change-ninja is unique. [...]
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The power of language
“My administration,” the president added, “is the only thing between you and the pitchforks.”
Inside Obama’s bank CEOs meeting
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 [...]
Hope
This is an excellent one! Thanks to Robert for showing me.
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10.000 hours
I’ve finished Gladwell’s book Outliers, in which he researches the presets for succesful people. One of the things he makes clear is that although talent is the condition for first entry level, e.g. at a conservatory, but that becoming the extraordinary musician is defined by the amount of hours you put in. The best musicians [...]
Practice, not sheer genius
That is what Gladwell will be telling us in his new book on talented and successful people.10.000 hrs
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Generation We
Generation WE: The Movement Begins… from Generation We on Vimeo.
Credit crisis perspective
Robert Paterson (one of the wonderful people we visited during our trip to Canada) has written some excellent posts on the current financial crisis. As a descendent from people who lost their capital in the 1930-s (my family looks so bland next to his’ ) and a former investment banker he has a good [...]
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Music that inspires me (18)