Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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SURE2 statistics dashboard – Feb 2012
As a researcher you might want to look into the webstatistics of your publications, regardless of there the publications are stored. SURE is an article level metrics infrastructure for publications stored in repositories. This presentation shows the end-results of the SURE2 project. It delivered an API and some dashboard functionalities for researchers and repositorymanagers to…
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Nancy Duarte: The secret structure of great talks
From the “I have a dream” speech to Steve Jobs’ iPhone launch, all great presentations have a common architecture. In this talk, Nancy Duarte draws lessons on how to make a powerful call-to-action. (Filmed at TEDxEast.) Nancy Duarte believes that ideas are the most powerful tools people have. Her passion is to help every person…
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National Research Day
The first National Research Day has passed on the 9th of february 2012. I helped the keynote speaker Richard Zijdeman to introduce the myResearch Portal. The video below shows the entire keynote in Dutch. The other keynote speaker was Cameron Neylon about Networked Enabled Research. reducing friction and linking information changes fundamentally the way science…
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Peter van Uhm: Why I chose a gun
Peter van Uhm is the Netherlands’ chief of defense, but that does not mean he is pro-war. In this talk, he explains how his career is one shaped by a love of peace, not a desire for bloodshed — and why we need armies if we want peace. (Filmed at TEDxAmsterdam.) General Peter van Uhm…
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De Cryostaat – January 2012
De cryostaat from Maurice Vanderfeesten on Vimeo. This film is made in two days. The creation of the idea, casting of the actor, shooting the film, improvising the storyline along the away, and editing the film. It went in Première on 15th of January 2012.This fictive film is about a scientist who separated from LERN (Low…
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De Slag bij Winter
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…
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Resilience in the Anthropocene
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…
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Closed my short film website – eendagsfilm
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…
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SURF & Enhanced Publications – June 2011
by: Keith Russell and Maurice Vanderfeesten at: Dutch Ministry of Education and Research, the Hague, the Netherlands about: This presentation is in DUTCH. It gives a brief introduction about SURF and then zooms in to Enhanced Publication Activities. Download version WITH the VIDEO’s SURF & Enhanced Publications from maurice.vanderfeesten
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Usage statistics – May 2011
by: Maurice Vanderfeesten at: several occasions, at the preface of starting a project about: This is about making a start of a project happening. The project is about sharing usage statistics to measure the social impact of Open Access Publications. To get the hands together I crafted a neatly looking mock-up user interface, and gave…
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