As we both know…
A friend of mine had an argument with his girlfriend about who should do what in the house. She told him she was doing all the laundry and that maybe he should help out with that. He replied that he always took care of dinner. He bought groceries, prepared the meal, served it and then cleaned the dishes. She replied “Yeah, but that’s not fair. You ‘like’ cooking”. They were both right, of course. It is easy to discard anything you are good at as nothing special. You make something and when someone praises you it...
read moreMultiple Personality Disorder
Thijs Wolzak made this portrait of me for [xtra], the XS4ALL magazine for business clients, which gets distributed to 60.000+ clients. They published an article about The Next Web Conference titled The Next Web Thing in which I talk about the future of the web and what people can expect from the conference: The original article can be read here, in...
read moreGurus #11: Twitter Special with Francisco van Jole
Yesterday I was interviewed by Francisco van Jole in my own show. We talked about Twitter....
read moreGURUS #7 with Renato Valdes Olmos
This is GURUS #7 with Renato Valdes Olmos from My Name is...
read moreMTV Shorts & Boris
MTV is making short movies again and has launched a website to promote them. They will also do a large poster campaign in Amsterdam and guess who they asked as a model for the poster. Right. Check out the website: MTV Shorts Photo: Daniel J....
read moreAshes Meeting Obama!
In 1997 I shook hands with someone who had just shaken hands with Hilary Clinton. That is as close as I ever got to meeting a president. Yeah, not very close indeed. You can imagine how extremely jealous I am of my best friend Daniel J. Ashes who traveled to the US a few weeks ago with a few friends (Joey Elgersma, Achmed Akkabi, Jim Aasgier and Nasrdin Dchar) to meet with Obama. I begged him to take me with him but that just wasn’t possible. The only thing left for me to do is watch these photos and dream: All the...
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