Last week Politiek Online had its first get-together in a series of diner conversations, theme for the evening: E-participation (soup with gremola, duck, cucumber salad, a glass of wine and other home made pleasantries).
Why is it that we trust in Wikipedia, but shrug at the outcomes of discussions with citizens?
At least three diner guests […]

over the past two days i have been attending an workshop on the ‘The Socio-Economic Impact of Social Computing: validation and policy options’ organized by the Institute for Prospective Technology Studies (IPTS) in Sevilla, Spain. The IPTS is one of the 7 research institutes of the Joint research directorate of the European Commission and researches […]

A lot of personalisation in this presentation I gave at the Knowledge Society Forum - Telecities conference in The Hague. Web 2.0 is presented as a model for collaboration and exchange of value. Furthermore, Civil Sociey Media organisations and projects deliver the tools to the public to create and remix content online and participate in […]

Pablos is a hacker and a futurologist. He work at . He wears a black shirt, has medium long hair and talks quick and entertaining. He starts of with pointing out where some real innovation gaps are. He tried on almost all head mounted displays and they generally suck. Hackers are the frontrunners of innovation, […]

David Weinberger: ‘Everything is miscellanous’
In a nice and warm Extraction Room West which fills up during the morning, Weinberger kicks off the PICNIC Thursday. David Weinberger talks about the topic of his book ‘Everything is Miscelleneous: organisation and order in the digital age. In the physical world we can organize as much as we want […]

PICNIC ‘07 has started! Knowledgeland hosts several events and has sent scouts to others. Keep this blog open for the latest updates! 

And finally the summary of the last talk of the day. Rod Beckström wants to leave us with a new toolkit for managing organizations. He uses an interesting metaphor by comparing the organization of the spider and that of the starfish. The starfish is a typical example of a decentralized creature. If you cut of […]

A strange machine with ten antennas which creates a superbroadband connection: Slurpr. It combines several wifi networks and combines it in a superlarge network. It looks as an ubergeek product with all the antennas sticking out.
Next is Respectance. Respectance is about sharing sorrow and mourning online. Respectance is a special community where we can remember […]

Dick Hardt is founder and CEO of Sxipper, an online identity service. Hardt has a very entertaining speech about the next identity. First, the definition of identity. If we want to the answer what Identity is, we ask GYM: Google, Yahoo , Microsoft. That generates tons of results. Ask the German Wikipedia, and you get […]

And now one of the talks everybody hase been waitng for; Tariq Krim from the Parisien Netvibes. Krim starts off by mentioning that it’s all about attention these days. Our digital life is going out off control. Netvibes helps you to focus what is important to you. Netvibes brings you straight to the data you […]