I've just got informed that the first game of gamoti, called gefira will get presented for the first time next week Tuesday.

Congratulation Joris !

By following Dries Buytaert (founder of Drupal) on Twitter I've got to this very interesting blog dreamweaver is dying It's a great story for a my WSDB course so I've made a blog for my student on the course-side.

In Friedman's book "The World Is Flat" you find the expression "creative destruction on steroid". Recently I've been hearing this term more frequently, probably not all have read the book, but the expression does seems appeal to many. In a recent debate on service science we got from the economic crisis to that expression. You could understand this as "flattening is a disruptive innovation". It seems to be a disruption of nations, by globalization and the rise of a new order. Let me outline what I mean with that.

While I hear many stories about how the Google way is so great towards OS-development (and they are), I'm starting to like IBM more and more as well.

You can find my quite often in a deep debate at the cafeteria on our campus. The thing is, I just love to solve hard problems, think about world views and allow out of the box conclusions. Today we discussed migration and integration again. I know several volunteer that help troublesome students to not fall out the system. There is a big frustration by many volunteers as no structural solution is given to this problem.

There is a conflict between my interests and blogging. When you look at my past blogs, you notice gaps of months. The problem is, I think sever times a week about making a blog. Once I start a story, I notice it starts to look like the intro to a a research paper. So I just file it with my other ideas. Mostly I don't even open those files any more, its like they are small brainstorms, but the real result sticks in your head, the content becomes useless.

This blog is about Barack Obama, he may not be my president, but he is my teacher. I want to congratulate him and wish him the best with making his visions real. It has been a few months since I share a tear of happiness by listening to Obama's speech. Lately the debate got more tough and it looks like the main ideas where already present for a few months. He has been an inspiration to understand how change is possible, speeches like " a more perfect union", "yes we can", "... on energy" are just some you have to see. Today I found the victory speech not at the usual barack.com@youtube, but suggest to get the victory-speech@nytimes. I do like how they added tags on the video and added the text next to it.

In the last week my site has been taken offline by Els. She has been reworking it and re-theming. As a consequence I've been sucked in the makeover and its still not over. You can find pages with "attentions". These pages will be reworked in the coming days.

Last week we had a mini ECCO conference (ECCOn) with three international speakers of ECCO. It makes me wonder if we can do a bigger conference in the near future. Each speaker’s topic was quite different, but there was a common ground: each one talked about knowledge and cybernetics. The first speaker looked at the web, the second speaker took it to the brain while the last speaker projected it to the universe. The last one was probably the most controversial and I will use this blog to give my reflection on it.

DrupalCon was again a great experience. Reflecting on it, I'm mostly surprised by the relation with RDF in some of the tracks. There was the session on Training and Certificates that wants to create an RDF for curriculum. Another interesting session was about Hacking Climate Change with Drupal and the Semantic Web I made a discussion-post about the RDF for curriculum in groups. This blog will be about the other session.