Justplain

If you, like me, feel you are somehow a clone of your father (this feeling starts not earlier thenafter your 30th birthday, i think) you should definitely listen to this Morning Coffee Notes in which Dave Winer discusses outliners with his father, Dr Leon Winer.
Outliners are about hierarchy. Dave’s father connects outliners to the oldest existing hierarchie, the roman catholic church!. Thats where older people show their genious, placing everything in perspective!
Papa Winer also tells us G.W. has no cortex, i suspected that allready.

Sometimes, i get the feeling that here in the Netherlands your written of once your fifty, i’m not buying that and need my papa’s judgement for my perspective for at least another 40 years (he’s 62 now). I think Dave Winer’s dad is older but his father has heard of podcasting! My pap still can repair a 1968 washingmachine but now i have to programm his vcr..

Big respect to Dr. Leon Winer!

Dave is going to listen to this podcast in thirty years from now, and i’m sure its going to put a tear in his eye and a big smile on his face.

I’m trying to get some exposure to my blog here. In his latest post Bicycle Mark explains his policy on the blogroll on his site:

Every single blog in my list matters to me, friends. Or else I wouldn’t have it there! And let me add this, if I’ve blogrolled you and you haven’t shown me the same respect and added me, I won’t make a big fuss, but I consider it extremely rude. I will go as far as taking blogs OFF my list if they don’t link me after months or years of having been linked. Ediqette friends… I believe in it. And if I link you, it’s because I want to show my respect and also compliment your work which appeals to me. So I gotta insist, links in the margin do mean ALOT to me.

So now i’ve linked to him, maybe he’ll link to me???

I’ve been reading his blog since he started podcasting. He sounds like a nice person. He’s really a global village citizen being an American, Portugues Dutchman. He lives in Amsterdam and travels by bicycle, i suppose.

Mark, i just listened to the sloeriesource (dutch podcast) and your dutch sounds great! Do you know my old buddy Martin Tanis at the uva? If so, please tell him i said hi!

Father Roderick Vonhögen, the catholic insider, is doing an podcast series about fact and fiction in Dan Brown’s novel ‘the da vinci code’. He does this by asking a question in each podcast and discusses the answer in the next podcast. Making it an interactive story with his listeners.

I read the book about a year ago and liked it very much. Dan Brown got me convinced for a short while, but after googling for an hour i knew that most of his book was based on hoaxes. A few weeks ago i watched ‘the real da vinci code’, a BBC documentory about the same subject. Its done by the same guy that was digging trenches on discovery channel a few years ago. That documentory smashes almost each ‘fact’ mentioned in the Da Vinci Code to pieces.

Also on the ‘catholic insider’ is doing a course called ‘Catholic faith for beginners’ in each podcast.

Father Roderick is a very cool priest! Being the son of a protestant minister, and not being a very religious person, i’m a modern western ’something’ believer, i’m almost challenged to go to a mass of father Roderick.

He is also the webmaster of a Starwars site.

I decided to put in some more effort in my blog and thought it was time to give it a proper domainname: www.justplain.org

I moved the site to my own server and upgraded to wordpress 1.5. I still have to do some finetuning to do. All the posts lost their categories during conversion so i have to put them into categories manually…

I’m using the default wordpress theme and since its spring i added a daffidil to it. I took the picture of the daffidil in my garden today. Íts a very nice spring day today and the garden was a mess as it usual is after winter and i decided to do some cleaning up:

Here some more daffidil pictures:

If you don’t like living your life inside your cubicle you could consider becoming a bikecourier!

A 3-day “Productivity Blog Showdown” has started today between the two personal productivity gurus Fred Gratzon and Steve Pavlina.

Fred Gratzon:

Hard work is bogus concept. Anyone claiming that hard work has value should be ignored. That person is misleading people who sincerely want to be successful.

Steve Pavlina:

Productivity is your ROI. It depends on how you define “return” and “investment.” In terms of my own personal productivity, I define “return” as the fulfillment of my purpose and “investment” as my time and energy. So if I’m working effectively to achieve my purpose, I’m productive.

I’m in favor of Fred Gratzon right now. I’m not sure i understand his concept but it sounds appealing. Steve Pavlina sounds more like my old man ;).

A new edition of the ‘morning coffeenotes’ podcast in which Dave Winer shares his feelings about swimming at the beach, Terri Schiavo, powerspots, podcasting as a business etc. It’s always nice how mr. Winer can put things into perspective!

Ourmedia.org, a brand new grassroots media organization founded by JD Lasica and Marc Canter

Ourmedia is all about: Create. Share. Get noticed.

The site is allready down , maybe to much traffic…

I just finished reading ‘We, the media‘ by Dan Gillmore, great reading stuff which gives us a glimps of the future of media.

Vox news analyses the annual survey by BlogAds and claims:

The recent fad of podcasting appears to be much overblown, with this very early adopter audience indicating almost no one actually listens to the audio readings of commentary. Three percent said they listened to one podcast per week.

Three percent! From zero to 3 in 8 months, not bad i think… Do some math and this shows that if podcasting keeps accelerating with the same speed… uhhhhhhh. Maybe someone can do the math for me but i have a strong feeling this thing can get HUGE!

HTML-lesson #1:

Nifty Corners: rounded corners without images