Peter Carey podcast

I’d like to say a big thankyou to the SPOETNIK team for the tip about the podcasts on Guardian Unlimited Books. I found a podcast there featuring an interview with my favorite author, Peter Carey. In the interview Peter also reads two excerpts from his latest book, His Illegal Self. I wrote a short post [...]

From Little Things Big Things Grow

When Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, delivered an apology to the indigenous people of Australia and in particular to the stolen generations he probably didn’t think about how this message could be picked up and celebrated by the GetUp! musicians and activists. Parts of this historic speech have been ’sampled’ and blended into a new [...]

Profile

I spent a little time this evening exchanging invitations to social networks and filling in profile information. I never did like writing CVs and luckily haven’t had to very often in my working life. Now in a short space of time I’ve had to fill in profiles for 4 different networks. This is getting to [...]

Let’s Hyve!

I started a hyves on the 17th of January at the ‘Meet the Expert — and make your own Hyves profile’ workshop organised by the NVB HB/WB. The expert in this case was Martijn Hulst (adviseur zorgmarketing bij Twynstra Gudde). You can read what he talked about that day in his blog. Martijn uses [...]

Letters from LAVA and me

A few weeks back I reported on a workshop ‘Ontwerp je eigen lettertype met ontwerpbureau LAVA’ held at the Museum voor Communicatie in the Hague. I’ve been waiting impatiently since then to see the font ontwerpbureau Lava has made using the letters created during the workshop. The font is ready and can be downloaded [...]

LAVA alphabet 1

Lava@muscom (33), originally uploaded by Museum voor Communicatie.
These are the stencils for the first half of the alphabet. Note my ‘C’ (egg shaped because of Easter)

LAVA alphabet 2

Lava@muscom (42), originally uploaded by Museum voor Communicatie.

Here’s the second part of the new font, The letters have been spaypainted onto the canvas through the stencils. Here you can see the ‘S’ the right way up!

His illegal self / Peter Carey

Peter Carey is one of my all time favorite authors and this is his new book. Peter Carey writes in a way that is surprising and convincing at the same time. He lets you see events through the eyes of his characters, and his characters through the eyes of other characters. He can take you [...]

Wiki voor Informatievaardigheden

Followers of the SPOETNIK program at the University Library of the Universiteit van Amsterdam are using a wiki to build a guide for new staff members. They are pooling their experiences to create an information resource for new and future users. They are also learning how to use a web tool (a wiki) by [...]

Wiki’s waarheid

I’ve just finished watching the documentary, Wiki’s waarheid. This episode of Tegenlicht was devoted to Wikipedia (for a description of the program in Dutch please see the link in my previous post). The makers of the program showed us film of internet gurus talking about Web 2.0 and ‘Wikipedians’ including the founder, Jimmy Wales talking [...]