The large hadron collider (LHC), currently being built has stirred a lot of controversy and has had numerous setbacks. Yet the goal of this incredibly expensive piece of machinery remains unknown to many. It isn’t easy to explain how research into the fundamental building blocks of our world and universe will immediately influence our lives, [...]
Whether you like it or not, our lifestyle is based on a massive industrial complex. From the enormous mines in Africa to the endless factory floors in China. They are the cogs in the giant machine that we call the economy. It might be sputtering right now, but clearly, governments are putting up a lot [...]
The blogosphere is buzzing with the bad news of the economic downturn. It’s all going down and certainly your site is. Or isn’t it? Via Guy Kawasaki’s Tweet I found this article. It’s a bit of a mixed bag. Most actual publishers that were interviewed reported their income wasn’t really affected. Media watchers however reported [...]
As of now, all content on this blog is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License. In simple terms: you can do whatever you want with all text I write, you just have to leave a little attribution. The Creative Commons license is meant to solve a few issues with media distribution. The cost [...]
The Big Ask (Belgian site with new clip by Nic Baltazar) is a campaign for a strong action to preserve the climate and the world by association. Because who is going to help diminish the CO2 levels? The government who’s only interested in getting reelected at the end of their term? Big Oil? Seriously? Think [...]
The recent financial crisis has demonstrated that we live in a connected world. Many visible, but even more invisible connections between people, companies, countries and their money. In Zeitgeist, the connections go even further. Do these connections truly exist or not? I have no idea, but I can assure you that these two two-hour long [...]
This is an atypical post, it’s not on Tuesday nor Friday and it’s not directly media related. But as always, I want to give you lots of stuff think about and thinker with. As announced yesterday, today is Blog Action Day, the day we discus global issues. This year, it’s poverty. Now I must confess, [...]
I’m not writing a Tuesday post this week, but I got one prepared for tomorrow. I will be joining Blog Action Day 08. While it’s not a subject of this blog, I am convinced that some global issues require global attention. See you tomorrow.
Turn it around … today. Sometimes many things seem to be out of your control. For instance, you might not be able to fix your car because you don’t know anything about transmissions or fuel injection. Or maybe you missed that promotion because some guy is spreading rumors. The solution? View the problem as an [...]
Learned a lot, accomplished nothing When I was a researcher, there used to be times when I would have that killer idea in my head. It was going to revolutionize the world and change the Internet as we know it. I still have those ideas in my head, however, I never managed to get them [...]