Aankondiging: de Slag bij Winter
Een korte film met één camera, één bouwlamp, één aggregaat en een nog totaal onbekend script.
Felix en Maurice tonen 15 januari 2012 weer een ongekend cinematografisch hoogstandje dat in twee dagen tot stand is gekomen.
De locatie van de shoot staat vast: de oude mijnfabriek Beringen in het Belgische Wallonië.
De première is op zondag 15 januari 2012 om 22:00u op de Jupiterstraat 15 in Utrecht. Iedereen is van harte welkom.
Ben je geïnteresseerd om een of twee dagen van je leven toe te wijden aan de totstandkoming van …

The Age of Man, or the Anthropocene. As cultural philosopher Peter Sloterdijk wrote in his book “You have to change your life“, we are living in an age where mankind itself now is a factor of change in the Terrestrial Ecosystem Model. Peter wrote that this is the age where the human mindset for the first time is thinking globally, and is realising more and more that his actions have a global impact on many factors. These factors are part of complex intertwined global systems. These sysems can be Economic …

From 2007 until 2009 I was running a very successful film making platform with a friend, Leendert Oostlander (see the picture below in the video stream), in Utrecht. This platform was to offer Film makers a stage where they could make short films and show it to interested visitors in a real cinema. After 2009 we realised we couldn’t manage this with continuing our day job. It was either this or nothing.

So we decided to hand the platform over to the community that increasingly grew. They continued in Eendags_, a …

Some people might get the feeling that they can read the mind of another person in occasions like in an intense conversation two people have. Most of the time they just ignore this observation because in western tradition it is not an accepted as a valid sensory experience.

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In the field of parapsychology studies are made that prove the “mind reader” effect over and over again in the disputed Ganzfeld (whole field, German) experiments. These are statistical evidence based experiments where a sensory blocked person in a …

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just a quick note. have to write a story about.
This concerns our generation where energy consumption is based on oil. Everything we know and think about is oil, and we have degrades our anchient methods to absorb a setback.
Not sustainability but resilience.
According to … “We worship energy, war is fought for what we worship”.
How to make a transition between the oil era and the resilience era. http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/696
a long documentary http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-665674869982904386#
background info http://www.chrismartenson.com/crashcourse/chapter-1-three-beliefs
Ok, it is not only oil reserves are decreasing. it is also fresh water, and fosforous. …

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Introduction

Book: Programming the Semantic Web
Knowledge reasoning platform: LarKC

LarKC the Large Knowledge Collider
Frank van Harmelen
Visualisation plugin http://blog.larkc.eu/?p=921
Query human interfaces testing

How to make the Semantic web work. With Zemanta provides a way (API) to create semantic relations in plain text.
http://www.slideshare.net/andraz/semweb-installfest-presentation
paper with interesting links can be found here http://events.linkeddata.org/ldow2009/papers/ldow2009_paper4.pdf
interesting links for semweb:
http://semanticweb.com
http://www.faviki.com
Trending topc? Semantic web popularity rates: http://www.google.com/insights/search/#cat=174&q=%22Semantic%20Web%22&cmpt=q
Popularity of Linked Data http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=%22Linked%20Data%22&cmpt=q
TOP 10 of Semantic Web applications in 2009
read the full article http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_10_semantic_web_products_of_2009p2.php

Google rich-snippets
Feedly.com
Apture.com
Zemanta.com
Calais (opencalais.com)
BBC’s music project (www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists)
Glue (getglue.com)
Freebase.org
DBpedia.org
DATA.gov

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Web Integrated Data (slideshare.net)
Potential Of Technology (slideshare.net)
Talks at SXSW …

Heb niet een video kunnen vinden over dit onderwerp, ik denk dat ik het uit de BBC Science heb of The Economist die ik afgelopen week heb gelezen.
Video’s die het onderwerp benaderen zijn hier te vinden. De logische link tussen beide technieken is een kleine stap verwijderd van elkaar.
Holographic optics:
http://nanotechnologytoday.blogspot.com/2008/02/ua-optical-scientists-add-new-practical.html
Robot surgery:
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/catherine_mohr_surgery_s_past_present_and_robotic_future.html
Artikel over de combinatie van die twee:
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Digital+Holography+Speeds+Surgery+and+Surgical+Planning;+Brain,…-a018716228
Over tools voor onderzoekersgesproken, dit zijn dure speeltjes…

Ok here is the thing. I read the briefing acticle “The electrification of motorisation” (with subtitle: “The electric-fuel-trade acid test”) in The Economist of September 5th-11th 2009, on page 73. I was excited and thrilled to read this article in the hope they could provide me with new information about this subject. Since it is The Economist wiriting, it is ofcourse about the Joule per dollar one can get out of a gas or electrical battery. The thesis continues about the bateries, new developments make Li-ion bateries faster to charge, …

Nature has come-up with elegant solutions of today’s problems.
Janine Benyus tells us about a research field that is called Biomimicry. In this field they look at strategies nature has come-up with to solve different problems, just by trail and error during the process of evolution. Let evolution work for us. www.asknature.org is a website one can post different strategies that can be used by humans to solve problems of teoday in an elegant and natural way that keeps the planet eurth in its equilibrium.

Besides that one can innovate just by …

Het Open Source model voor bedrijfsvoering
The authors Jaap Bloem and Menno van Doorn from the consultancy company Sogeti describe how to setup a Open Innovation business model based upon the Open Source Software model. It describes how one can use empowered employees with greater autonomy to create innovitive products or services and create greater trust due to the transparancy. Open for Business is only in Dutch.
http://vint.sogeti.nl/books/open4business.pdf