tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-125680582024-03-14T13:29:41.651+01:00BuziaulaneBuziaulane is a landmark I annexed as my bloggerspot to report on my professional life as a consultant content strategy. Buziaulane is a street in Utrecht (The Netherlands), where I used to live. It is in a quiet neighbourhood with the house that never became a castle. The mansion's tower I annexed as my virtual observation post for the content industry.
© Text and photographs, unless otherwise indicated: Collection Jak Boumans, 2005-2020Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1878125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12568058.post-69204625632968335952023-10-27T14:58:00.002+02:002023-10-27T15:37:28.387+02:00Dutch Podcast Awards<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12568058.post-61367559839632142802023-10-15T00:13:00.003+02:002023-10-16T09:39:23.787+02:00A belated Market Garden Memorial FlightIt is now 78
years ago, October 1944, that I sat
safely in the belly of my mam. Today October 15, 2023, I sat safely in the
belly of a Dakota DC3, the Princess Amalia, of the Dutch Dakota Association for
a belated Market Garden Memorial Flight to Nijmegen and Arnhem.
Recently a
grandson found out that the Dutch Dakota Association was organising Memorial
Market Garden Flights in September. We Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12568058.post-20083555518356622402023-08-22T15:55:00.001+02:002023-08-22T15:59:43.618+02:00VR-augmented Dutch Digital Art app
More art in public spaces is soon to be seen in the Dutch new town of Almere. DDAMA's (Dutch Digital Art Museum Almere) digital art tour app offers opportunities for artists and for local and global use. Moreover, it makes art accessible to more people outside the physical museum.The operation of the VR-augmented Dutch Digital Art app is similar to Pokémon Go: using the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12568058.post-29665360746270022022023-06-21T15:34:00.008+02:002023-08-22T16:36:18.907+02:00Oral history of the Battle of Arnhem<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12568058.post-4346546864368569732023-05-28T14:47:00.007+02:002023-06-07T07:43:13.268+02:00The Amsterdam Digital City registerd in UNESCO Memory of the WorldThe Digital City (DDS) was recently added by Unesco to the international Memory of the World register. This list includes cultural and historical documents and archives of global importance. The regstration of The Digital City is the first time of a digital item, i.c. an online community, in the UNESCO Memory of the World.With the Memory of the World programme and specifically the register,
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12568058.post-19208854156041079162023-05-14T12:33:00.001+02:002023-05-14T12:40:51.233+02:00 Archive Dutch game magazine Power Unlimited on USB stickThe Dutch video
game magazine Power Unlimited is digitising its 30-year archive and is
offering this archive for sale to its fans. Power
Unlimited is
celebrating its 30th anniversary. The first edition of the magazine appeared in
July 1993. Over the years, the magazine, which now appears ten times a year,
has grown into the largest games magazine in the Benelux. The archive, consisting of almost
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12568058.post-3213479903261280822023-04-10T13:23:00.007+02:002023-07-10T10:30:13.319+02:00 Dutch theologian and poet Huub Oosterhuis passed awayOn Easter Day, theologian and poet Huub Oosterhuis passed away at the age of 89.I had the pleasure of arranging the rights for a selection of his prayers and poems for the English anthology Times of Life for the Paulist Press in New York. The selection is from the Dutch language collections Hoe ver is de nacht and Dan zal ik leven. The translation is by N.D. Smith (Norfolk UK).Publisher: Paulist Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12568058.post-6364074909651307132022-12-31T16:10:00.003+01:002023-01-02T16:11:25.892+01:00Tears from heaven...When the Dutch radio news service interrupted regular programmes on the last day of 2022 for the obituary of the retired pope, Benedict XVI, it rained in the Netherlands.Benedict XVI was averse to tradition. The only tradition he broke with as pope was his retirement. Otherwise, as pope, he was a fanatical guardian of tradition and the doctrine of faith.Before taking office as pope, he was, amongUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12568058.post-63536191129215321402022-08-26T20:53:00.001+02:002022-08-26T20:54:36.964+02:00Dutch vintage PC auctioned for 3.100 euroThe illustration is of a Holborn 6500 and not of a Holborn 6110, which is up for auction. Catawiki organised an auction of vintage computer objects last week. This new section at Catawiki of vintage computer objects differs from the other offered computer objects of common portable computers and tablets. The vintage objects on offer come from the eighties and nineties. They are so far old Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12568058.post-72973492407092627842022-08-06T12:46:00.003+02:002022-08-06T12:46:48.755+02:00First .nl novel in LHBT+ collection National Dutch LibraryThe Internet and the Dutch web have been important media for the emancipation of gay and lesbian people and/or transgender people in the Netherlands. The KB has therefore built up a special web collection of lhbt+ websites between 2018 and 2022. The abbreviation "lhbt+" stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and the sign "+" for all other possible sexual and gender identities of people Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12568058.post-69545781775227834552022-06-30T14:16:00.003+02:002022-07-02T10:47:00.855+02:00Exhibition Water-Polder-Weerwater in new city Almere (The Netherlands)Press release The Almere
City Archives Department has put together the exhibition Water-Polder-Weerwater
(lake in the center of the city). By
means of photographs, design sketches and letters from the collection of the
city archive, the special history of the polder, Almere and the Weerwater is
told. The exhibition, in Dutch and English, especially for Floriade visitors,
can be seen from Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12568058.post-25707711440067056172022-06-16T11:08:00.000+02:002022-06-16T11:08:38.836+02:00Growth Dutch new town Almere seen from the cloudsThis book
is about the new town Almere in The Netherlands. This city does not count its
age in centuries, but in less than 50 years. The first eight families got keys to
their cabin chalets in 1975 and the 400 first occupants received their keys to
the constructed houses in 1976. It is a city that arose from the water, when in
1964 the construction of dykes began and in 1968 the polder Zuidelijk Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12568058.post-61175177020313726932022-05-31T16:23:00.003+02:002022-05-31T16:31:18.024+02:00Pioneering Dutch IRMA app points the way for new European digital identity
Users keep full control of their personal data
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12568058.post-57310462714380214902022-05-29T20:05:00.000+02:002022-05-29T20:05:17.455+02:00The algorithmic beauty of plantWednesday,
June 1, 2022 from 19 - 21 hours in DDAMA (Dutch Digital Art Museum Almere)
opening of two new exhibitions that are related to the theme of the Floriade:
The algorithmic beauty of plants and Glitched Lovescapes. In the Euro-tower
(now Rabo) next to Almere CS, Landdrostdreef 124, 2nd floor, 1314 SK Almere
(The Netherlands).
DDAMA has
been around for more than five years and is like a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12568058.post-56768282799908038922022-04-11T17:18:00.003+02:002022-04-11T17:27:44.637+02:00Towards a Digital Culture in local and regional newspapers in FinlandThe publishing sector has been struggling to reach a digital culture
over the years. Especially the newspapers are in a transfer situation going
from paper to a hybrid situation to digital first. Especially for local and
regional newspapers this has been a battle.
Marja Heinonen, a Finnish consultant, has written a report on the route
towards a digital culture in the Finnish regional newspaper Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12568058.post-76890987089124654222021-11-10T16:04:00.001+01:002021-11-10T16:09:17.895+01:00 Dutch Media
Monitor 2021Tipping point in digitization of media use and media
concentration
The advent
of the coronavirus and the associated measures have greatly affected our
society. Our media behavior has also changed substantially. In particular, we
used more media because we were at home more. We also consulted more news media
brands because we wanted to stay well informed. We have Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12568058.post-17948357464064749552021-08-07T15:00:00.000+02:002021-08-07T15:00:17.458+02:007 August 1980: First Dutch public online service <!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12568058.post-2235660930758162492021-07-29T09:47:00.004+02:002021-07-29T10:08:59.661+02:00Talking to machines in their languageJust like to refer you to the following blog of David Worlock, pointing into the upcoming direction of scientific publishing. Where tax and legal publishing took the road of delivering software to their readers, this blog reduces a scientific article to a signboard, while stressing scientific data as the new gold of scientific publishing. https://www.davidworlock.com/2021/07/Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12568058.post-55131415858728221982020-06-28T16:29:00.006+02:002020-06-28T20:15:34.539+02:00First Dutch online (.nl) novel surfacedOn 10 March, the web archivist of the KB National Library of The Netherlands placed a call on Twitter for a copy of the first Dutch-language novel, Roes der Zinnen, published on the Internet in 1994. The novel is no longer available on the internet, but it would still be available on a floppy disk. A search for the floppy disc was short-lived, as it was stored in my private E-media collection (Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12568058.post-9851593034627681242020-04-04T09:00:00.000+02:002020-04-04T09:00:00.710+02:00Yes, internet has a patron saint
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Today in 1976 the first royal e-mail was sent by the British Queen Elizabeth II. She visited the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment, the telecom research institute in Malvern, on the occasion of the use of the connection with the American ARPANET, the forerunner of the internet.
Engineer Peter Kirsten had created an email account with the username HME2 and prepared a message. The Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12568058.post-25372439421946383372019-05-22T13:42:00.003+02:002019-05-22T13:48:21.362+02:00Re-run of the blog Europe Day of 5/9/2007
This is are-run of a blog I wrote in 2007, which reflects my attitude towards the European Union. Will you vote tomorrow?
Wednesday, May 09, 2007
Europe Day
Today it is the Day of Europe. Normally it is a day on which attention is asked for Europe, the unity and policies. But this year it is 50 years ago that in Rome on March 24, 1957a treaty for economic co-operation was signed by Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12568058.post-12062907890833953102019-04-12T11:53:00.000+02:002019-04-26T13:47:33.580+02:00BPN1749: Dutch media art canon launched
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