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The Dutch Do Dance! Even their Queen!

Happy Queen’s Day!
On January 30, 2008 our Queen Beatrix reached the venerable age of 70. The Dutch Queen´s birthday is celebrated officially on April 30th, since Queen Beatrix ascended the Throne. It is a public holiday and everybody goes out partying. In Amsterdam you can walk over the heads […]

The Dutch Don’t Dance, Photo © by Wouter Hogendorp and Canon

Recently I found this apt picture with apt title and color.

The picture is apt because the wooden shoes or clogs stand as a sort of fake national symbol for The Netherlands, whereas hardly any Dutchman (or Cloggy as I am actually teasingly call my […]

Travel Blog author Darren Cronian has won the Travolution Award for best consumer travel blog with his Blog Travel Rants.
He was chosen from the following shortlist:

Travel Rants (Darren Cronian)
TravelMail Blog (various authors)
Viator Blog (various authors)
Select World Travel (Lee Harrison)

I believe winning from these great blogs will add extra to this award for Darren.
The Laudatio says:
“Darren […]

The opening Screen

Some time ago I came across Piclens from the company Cool Iris via a recommendation from Internet Guru Doc Searls. Doc has no search function on his Blog. A severe neglect! At first I couldn’t find his post back.
As an aside: He also recommended Flickrfan in a post Less T, More V […]

Director of Sleep

In my prior post I asked: “What is a Director of Sleep?”
I probed a bit further.
Usually a Director of Sleep is someone in a Hospital, a Mental or a Geriatric Institution who has specialized in sleep deprivation.
Thanks to the Learning Journey Blog and Cater Research I now know a bit more about […]

The “New” TravelPod

The “New” TravelPod Interior

The Travelpod is Travelodge’s answer to a tent and can become a movable Pod Hotel.
From its July 28th, 2006 Press Release:
Travelodge has produced the ultimate accessory for lovers of outdoor entertainment. Forget waterlogged tents - now you can have for the first time, a mobile bedroom or ‘Travelpod’ to […]

This is a re edited post originally dating back a year. (Yes I am trying to getting organized).
Some time ago I was inclined to kick my MyBlogLog widget from this Blog, because its server didn’t respond quick enough and caused hung pages on this Blog and several other Blogs.
My first introduction to Bloglog was by […]

Getting organized is high on my wish list. Sometimes I see ideas from the corner of my eyes: I found some ideas, but are curious whether my readers have thoughts on the following gadgets:

BackPack It or
Samurize It or
Springnote it?

Any thoughts?

A couple of recent articles drew my attention:

Death By Blogging, NY Times;
10 signs that you’re addicted to Twitter, Andre Philippe;
For bloggers, a digital sweatshop called ‘home’, International Herald Tribune;
In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop, NY Times;
Killed By Blogging, Burst Blog
Becker Posner about compensation under competition
Not Productive Enough? Turn Off The […]

Today a short review of Pension Manfred Klauss, because one of our Austrian relatives called for their address and I want to be able to find its address back here at my blog.
This little Inn (”Pension” in German) is located between Wurzburg and Nurnberg in Germany.
This is about half way between The Netherlands and Vienna […]

Thank You, Claude

After my previous post there was some more discussion on Twittter and in the meantime an unrelated Twitterer, The Carol of the Chines language Blog 太妃糖憂鬱狂歡節│Carol's Carnival mentioned the the possibility of Group Twittering via Group Tweet. That ticked us off.
In the meantime Elliot NG of the Uptake blog posted about the Travel […]

Until they launched their Ginger version I wasn’t much impressed by Netvibes. I like their new Ginger public page idea and the possibility to group feeds on one page. A bit unfortunate is that I see no possibility to make screen shots of public pages on Netvibes.
Following a Twitter conversation with Elliot NG of Uptake, […]

As a matter of fact I was experimenting with Netvibes and its Ginger version already. Just before noting Travel.Alltop I had made a public page on Netvibes by the name of Happy Hotelier’s Travel Readings, which was inspired by the way Edu Williams had formed his public Turismo (En) page.
Look for yourself if this is […]

Again, I must have been under the rocks. This is existing and happening on my doorstep (or in my backyard): Yesterday and today The 2008 Next Web Conference is being held in Amsterdam.
What is The Next Web Conference?
The Next Web Conference is THE European conference for industry thought-leaders, leading web-companies, innovative Startups, visionaries and real […]

Recently I saw referrals coming in from Travel.Alltop.
According to its Blog Travel.Alltop was launched on March 28, 2008. They thanked Gary Arndt, Chris Holdren, Glenn James, Paul Sanchez, Sheila Scarborough and Jen Leo. Since I don’t happen to know these people, I more or less wonder how I got on their shortlist.
Wat is Alltop?
Alltop is […]