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Welcome to the new site!

Well, the move is complete. I’ve moved my blog over to my own domain. It was lying around doing nothing, so I may as well put it to use.

This blog uses WordPress 2 as it’s CMS. It was a breeze to import all the Blogger posts. Nice one, WP team!

I’ve forwarded all the RSS feeds to Feedburner, so if you’ve subscribed to that feed (which means you’re reading this), you won’t have to change anything.

To-do:

  • Create a new theme (now running the pretty “Almost Spring” by Becca)
  • Pull in my Flickr photo’s
  • Pull in my del.icio.us links (done!)
  • Create an about page
  • Create an archive page
  • Figure out the IA for this site – to tag or not to tag?
  • Categorize or tag all my old posts (not looking forward to that)

Trying out new web apps

I’m giving Rojo a spin right now.

I transfered all my feeds from Bloglines yesterday and, after an initial feeling that the app was bloated, I must say I quite like it. The tagging is well-implemented, and for some reason I feel I can scan my new stories much faster here than in Bloglines. The only glaring ommission is a notifier!

I’ve also signed up for 30 Boxes, and have been playing with the really cool natural language event input system. Once you get used to the forced AM / PM syntax, it’s quite nice. The only thing I’m missing here is a way to import an iCal export (.ics).

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Euro IA Summit 2005 report

While my notes are collecting dust on my hard drive, someone else finally got around to writing up a report of last year’s European IA Summit. As James Kalbach writes in his article on Boxes and Arrows:

“We should be intensely interested in documenting these summits… Does IA really want to deliver a wheelbarrow of PowerPoint slides in ten years as the body of its work?”

A good overview of a memorable event then. I’m already looking forward to the next one.

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Four Things Meme

It’s all Peter’s fault, who in turn was ‘tagged’ by Thomas. At least I’m in good company. :-) Here’s a few silly top four lists (not necessarily definite):

Four Jobs I’ve Had

  1. Second rate paper boy (delivering folders and such) in De Bilt, the Netherlands
  2. Summer job preparing orders of computer hardware in Hilversum, the Netherlands
  3. Freelance interaction designer for Leapfrog, my own company
  4. Interaction designer at Bright Alley Interactive Communication

Four Movies I Can Watch Over And Over

  1. Blade Runner
  2. Reservoir Dogs
  3. Seven Samurai
  4. Lost in Translation

Four Places I’ve Lived

  1. Blokzijl, the Netherlands
  2. Paris, France
  3. Schagen, the Netherlands
  4. De Bilt, the Netherlands

Four TV Shows I Love

  1. The X-Files
  2. ER
  3. The Simpsons
  4. Ren & Stimpy

Four Places I’ve Vacationed

  1. Costa Rica
  2. Indonesia
  3. Singapore
  4. New Orleans

Four Of My Favorite Dishes

  1. Lamb chops
  2. Spaghetti Putanesca
  3. Dutch pancakes
  4. Sushi

Four Sites I Visit Daily

  1. Bloglines
  2. Flickr
  3. Last.fm
  4. plazes

Four Places I Would Rather Be Right Now

  1. Pulau Bunaken, Sulawesi, Indonesia
  2. Tokio, Japan
  3. Somewhere along the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica
  4. The tatami of a Takeda Ryu dojo

Four Bloggers I’m Tagging

  1. Edgar
  2. Tom
  3. Iskander
  4. Hessel (so he can do something with his ‘new’ domain)

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I get invited to a good beta (Newsvine)

Guess I won’t be needing that shirt – today I got an invited to the private beta of Newsvine.

In the words of Mike Davidson (previously known for his work on sIFR, now of Newsvine):

“We believe in turning news into conversation, and every page on Newsvine.com is designed to do precisely that.”

Haven’t had the time to actually give it a try, but here’s a screenshot of this morning’s world news home page.

Newsvine

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