Pieter Jansegers

 tumblr.com has made in into the listing Quality microblogs worldwide - http://www.mabano.com/viewupdate.php?id=293

The Genius Formula G = iC²

G = iC² – The Genius Formula | Posted by Praveen Baratam on October 31, 2012 - 

http://info.talkonomy.com/blog/g-ic%C2%B2-the-genius-formula

“Genius = ideas . conversations (squared to imply the relative importance)”

Getting e-learning right…

“The educational and social impacts of Plan Ceibal” - Miguel Brechner at ALT-C 2011

 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAHcA56SZX8

the microblog market will be mature in 2013

”(…) the [microblog] market will be mature in 2013” - http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90776/90882/7246031.html

Modern times

“We feel unbelievably lucky to be at this time and place - to feel the ground shifting beneath our feet and see the world change in ways we can barely imagine.”

(Maria Ressa, introducing Rappler.com)

http://www.rappler.com/about-rappler/about-us/385-about-rappler

Out-of-the-box thinking and value Claire Boonstra

Education, out-of-the-box thinking and value : listen to Claire Boonstra at TEDxAmsterdamED

- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEDM3zzYN_I

Twitter and its Follow Limits (I can’t follow people)

Due to Twitter Follow Limits my personality is getting smashed into pieces.

I’ve, ofcourse, an open twitter account @jansegers and a closed one @pieterjansegers is many sensible tweeps do,

but next to that I’m tweeting in Dutch as @pjansegers like I couldn’t follow more then 2000 people on my first account I was using for international connections.

I’m also using @Frenchteachers for informing my colleagues worldwide and just now I’ve created @jnsgrs to be able to communicate via twitter with my fellow students of the Coursera.com course on

Internet History, Technology, and Security #IHTS

It’s a pitty that I can’t do it from my main twitter account, and I’ve some other accounts on Twitter as well, all for a specific audience.

It makes me wondering how many individual users Twitter really has…

Yoav Medan: Ultrasound surgery — without cuts

Yoav Medan: Ultrasound surgery — healing without cuts http://on.ted.com/ANw8 #TED

Bottom-up versus top-down solutionizing

Bottom-up versus top-down solutionizing

(first published in reaction on a blog article at http://www.bubblegeneration.com/2008/02/bankrupted.cfm )

This is the distinction that you can come up with.

The difference between to the styles can be pictured easily with this image:

If everyone cleans up the room after staying there a while, the room doesn’t get to dirty and the cleaning staff is quite happy to achieve a higher standard of cleaniness.

If no-one cleans up the room after passing bye, the room gets so dirty that even the cleaning staff is desperate about the chances of cleaning the room upto an acceptable level.

The same goes for security (everyone looks out /vs/ no-one), civilty (everyone is polite /vs/ no-one) and tolerance (everyone is tolerant /vs/ no-one).

No authority can dictate society, society is born with the effort put into it by individuals.

Society is an emerging level of individual behavior. Any chance of that behavior is a change of the society as a whole.

Speech of European President Herman Van Rompuy

First speech of the first European President Herman Van Rompuy - http://bit.ly/4tq6vK partly in French, partly in English plus some Flamish

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…