It’s easy to show your support for web design done right. Beg, borrow, or buy a Blue Beanie (or Blue Toque in Canada) and snap a photo of your mug wearing the blue. (Or get creative with Photoshop). Then on November 30, switch your profile picture in Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, (and any other social network) and post your photo to the Flickr Blue Beanie Day 2009 group.
Review of the RAW Rhythm Festival 2009, at the Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam.
Smashing Magazine published a comic strip written by Jeremy Keith and drawn by Brad Colbow about W3C’s recent announcement to end the XHTML 2 workgroup charter by te end of the year. There has been a huge amount of discussion on this topic within the webstandards community, and Jeremy Keith’s explanation of the exaggerated reports of XHTML’s demise is a …
This weekend is the first edition of the RAW Rhythm festival, held at the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam. RAW Rhythm is the sequel of the Drum Rhythm festival, a popular festival a few years ago, that had to cease its acivities due to a new law that probibits tobacco-advertising in The Netherlands. Now it’s ‘back’, as the organisers found a new …
Article promoting the june 30th 09 barcamp on accessible web 2.0 applications for government, held at Pakhuis de Zwijger in Amsterdam.
Gister ochtend zat ik rond een uur of zeven in de trein naar Den Haag, rustig De Volkskrant te lezen. Heerlijk vind ik dat, zo rustig het nieuws van gister (en in dit geval ook van zondag) door te nemen. Kom ik aan op pagina 6, staat er een vetgedrukt artikel met de kop “Gemeentesite moet drempelvrij“. Nu werk ik …
Recently, there has been some buzz about the microblogging service Twitter, such as the free newspaper De Pers calling Twitter ‘mind masturbation’, and therefore something tossers would use. This inspired an article on the subject by Floor Drees on the IKKI website, which in turn sparked a discussion among its visitors and staff. I am omong those who replied to that discussion. The ideas expressed there, as well as some others I recently came across, have lead me to reflect on the reason I use Twitter.
I’m a Mac fanboy, and it’s actually a Mac Fanboy Club membership requirement to do a little Microsoft bashing every now and again. So here’s a small video of That Other Steve (Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft), making a grand entrance at a past conference. I know this is old footage, so don’t flame me for it. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvsboPUjrGc[/youtube]
Verschillende websites concluderen ten onrechte dat staatssecretaris Bijleveld in haar antwoord op vragen uit het Algemeen Overleg e-overheid zegt dat de webrichtlijnen niet verplicht worden voor andere dan rijksoverheden. Eerder deze week publiceerden verschillende websites (o.a. Webwereld en Digitaal Bestuur ) het bericht dat Bijleveld de webrichtlijnen alleen verplicht wil stellen voor de rijksoverheid. Dit baseerden zij op de zinsnede: …
This week, the W3C announced two interesting bits of news, news I’d like to share with you.