In First Monday, Tom Cross writes about Wikipedia using a reputation system to create a moderator class which has the power to approve user submitted changes. A first experiment done by his MemeStreams, which in turn is powered by Industrial Memetics.
Author Archives: Martien van Steenbergen
10 Ways to Think about Innovation
What successful young technologists know. Interesting few things about successful innovation by MIT’s Technology Review while posting their top 35 innovators under the age of 35 for 2006. Read the summary on 10 Ways to Think about Innovation.
Cheetah Launch
Bijna één miljoen Nederlanders heeft diabetes. Dit maatschappelijke probleem is te omvangrijk en te gecompliceerd op te lossen door een selecte club of industrie. Daarom zwermen op 4 juli deskundige pioniers en trednsetters samen om richting te geven aan de doorontwikkeling van het Cheetah-platform—slimme open source software die leert van en meegroeit met haar gebruikers. …
Technocrati tuned in to Cheetah
Technocrati’s antennas pick up on Cheetah as well: http://www.technorati.com/tag/cheetah
Diabetes care made easy
Cheetah Summer 2006 mailing went out this night. Let’s see if we can sparkle the Dutch Diabetes Ecosystem on July 4, 2006, Boothzaal, Uithof, Utrecht.
Information Liberation Front—Lawrence Lessig
Guardian Unlimited writes about Lessig as a Freedom fighter with a guilty conscience—Lawrence Lessig explains his mission to limit the cultural damage caused by copyright and intellectual property (IP) law. Of pivotal importance for the emergence for our whole world. Relying on what’s necessary, natural, and next, Lessig finds means of supplying adequacy so that …
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Facts about diabetes in The Netherlands
Interesting cheatsheet on diabetes facts in The Netherlands published by the Diabetes Vereniging Nederland: 600,000 known people have diabetes type 1 and type 2 250,000 people have diabetes without their knowledge so, 1 on every 19 Dutch citizen has diabetes 85% have diabetes type 2 15% have diabetes type 1 70,000 diabetics added annually at …
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Reasons to Train
Primary reasons to train: To get, keep, and grow talent; and To close the skills gap. Read the full story on Reasons to Train Your Staff.
Fundamental Research of Matter -> Fields
Took my daughter Tamar to the FOM Institute for Plasma Physics ‘Rijnhuizen’ for a school excursion. FOM is one of the research institutes of the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter. I was welcomed by Amy Shumack (native Australian and excellent Dutch tongue) and I asked her what matter actually is. So we talked about …