Pieter Jansegers

French teacher and ICT enthusiast.
More info ? see jansegers.atspace.com
Nov 02
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The Title Webosoof

I’ve created the title Webosoof, because it’s my niche market so to speak.

I’m constantly thinking about the internet as the new alphabet, the new printing press, the new radio, the new television, the new information medium englobing every the other media.

The world is one global village and social media and especially microblogs are there to proove this point: people from all over the globe connect in ways never seen before.

What was the change of me having contact with people from China, India, Russia, Brazil, the USA and Australia just twenty years ago ? Almost none existing before the internet except when I would have been some professor or some CIO of a really big company.

Nowadays, it’s possible for almost each and everyone in the developped world and more and more people in the developping world.

Imagine everyone having high level contacts as had Erasmus, Thomas Morus or Leonardo Da Vinci - BTW, I find this strange: Wikipedia’s article spelling is Leonardo da Vinci , with a small d.

Wikipedia makes the knowledge available worldwide and in almost every modern written language, even about subjects no other encyclopedia ever had thought to write an article.

Facebook, Myspace, Friendster, Orkut, Hi5, make it possible to connect with friends and acquaintances from all over the globe.

Youtube, Dailymotion, Vimeo make videos available from every single little village or big city to almost every other single place here on Earth.

Ning.com , Yonkly.com and Qonversation.com make it possible to come together around themes.

Twitter is the XXI century’s Who’s Who and Google Wave is ready to become this century’s postal service - like email was for the last part of the former and the early beginning of this century.

We’re living in exciting times, my friends, we’re living in the digital age…

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Scientists describe these skills as our “fluid intelligence”—the ability to find meaning in confusion and to solve new problems, independent of acquired knowledge.
— Jamais Cascio, “Get Smarter”, in: the Atlantic, http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200907/intelligence
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Living as we do in such an unstable culture where anybody over thirty has to be astonished by how deeply and permanently the world has changed, it is hard for us to divorce fixity from questions of intelligence and imagination. But experiments and history suggest that a powerful stabilizing force exists and slowed the whole process of speech origins.
— A Cultural Law of Gravity - http://cli.gs/mXXJab
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Some tweet to share information, though that sharing is often really a boast about how au courant the twitterer is. Many tweet as self-promotion.
Dec 24
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A lion never forgets

Nov 29
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Web 2.0 Expo NY: Gary Vaynerchuk (Wine Library), Building Personal Brand Within the Social Media Landscape - http://tinyurl.com/3jmzpq

(I found out about it, thanks to Perry Belcher on his blog ‘Strictly Personal’ http://perrybelcher.net/

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Internet Access Without Electricity, Connectivity or Phone Services. No Matter Where You Are.

Internet Access Without Electricity, Connectivity or Phone Services. No Matter Where You Are. - http://cli.gs/7mzVhz

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The importance of story telling

In his TED presentation ” Welcome to Nollywood ” [
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/franco_sacchi_on_nollywood.html ],
Franco Sacchi tells us:

“I hope that it will inspire other African nations to (…) create an narrative for the population something to identify, something positive, something that really is psychological releaf and is part of the culture. (…)

And there is one thing, one small challenge that I have for you and it should make us relfect on the importance of story telling:

Try to image a world where the only goal is food and a shelter but no stories, no stories around the campfire, no legends no fairy tales, nothing, no novels.

Difficult, hey ?
It’s meaningless.

So this is what I really think, I think that the key to a healthy society is a triving community of story tellers. And I think that the Nigerian filmmakers really have proven it.”


Franco Sacchi: Welcome to Nollywood -
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/franco_sacchi_on_nollywood.html
about Nigeria’s booming film industry - where local crews telling local stories can shoot a feature film in a week

Nov 21
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The relativity of value

“Asset prices rise not because of “buying” per se, because indeed for every buyer, there is a seller. They rise because those transacting agree that their prices should be higher. All that everyone else - including those who own some of that asset and those who do not - need do is nothing. Conversely, for prices of assets to fall, it takes only one seller and one buyer who agree that the former value of an asset was too high. If no other bids are competing with that buyer’s, then the value of the asset falls, and it falls for everyone who owns it. If a million other people own it, then their net worth goes down even though they did nothing. Two investors made it happen by transacting, and the rest of the investors made it happen by choosing not to disagree with their price. Financial values can disappear through a decrease in prices for any type of investment asset, including bonds, stocks and land.”

Quotation from Deflation explained - http://www.elliottwave.com/deflation/

Nov 11
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