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In this video Jyri Engeström and Petteri Koponen talk about Jaiku and life streams with Robert Scoble. Jyri is very good in explaining everything that is good about life streaming. (video via @Bakkel)

Since I started using Twitter I noticed I spend less time reading feeds and make longer blog postings. I’m not sure why I’m reading less feeds. I think the most interesting things come up in Twitter anyway. Or maybe Twitter takes up rss time?

I think I like the changed setup for this blog, less link dumping and more thinking, or at least more questions.

Will life streaming (and social bookmarking) in general will influence the popularity of link-dump-blogs?

Guest articles
If you would like to write a guest article on hypernarrative let me know.

I would love to host your thoughts on things or questions about new web services, media and technologies. How new technology influences the things we are used to do or how we will use applications in the future. Please let me know.

There are no rules other than that the text contains at least a relevant hyperlink, audio, photo or video (it is the internet after all) and more important it has to make you think or confuse for a little while.

Email me what you would like to do to hypernarrative@gmail.com, I’m looking forward to it.

You might have seen the banner on the top left of this website. We are building a new website. www.voornopnaarpop.nl, meaning “visit pop for nothing“. The website will be in Dutch (sorry for the 92% of hypernarrative visitors who are not Dutch).

The website its focus is on exchanging free tickets and exposure. For organizers this is a platform to promote a party or festival. For visitors this is a place where you can get free tickets for your favorite dj’s and bands.

Everything is beta
This weekend the first version of the website (a draft) appeared online. We will continuously update it and meanwhile start looking for partners and promoters. The website will probably change during the next weeks.

We want to make the data easy accessible for searching and linking. You can stay up to date via RSS, Twitter or any other gadget we can make or think of.

I you have a good idea, great skills or just a great motivation join the club (even if you’re not Dutch).

If you want to promote a gig or event use the form.

I’m addicted to RSS feeds to find something or just read the web. I use Newsfire and so called smart folders, the folders search all your feeds on selected keywords and group the latest stories containing one of these words. For example “storytelling” is one of the words I search on.

Below is my OPML file, this file contains the feeds I’m subscribed to. Most feedreaders are able to import OPML files. Feel free to suggest a feed and have fun with the OPML of my selection. Share your OPML.

You can download my OPML file here
hypernarrative.com/downloads/Wilbert_Baan_OPML_Feeds.opml

I played a bit with the stylesheet. The website switched to 900px width and is centered, the different columns changed in size.

I still have to do some work on the right and left column, this will be done in the next days.

Welcome to version 3.6

version 3.5

version 3.6

I removed some old code and files. As a result hypernarrative.com got stuck in an infinite loop causing 46.183 reloads this afternoon. Normally it takes me three weeks to get this many pageviews.

The bug is solved and the site is up and running fast again.

For a while I’m using del.icio.us for my bookmarking. I’m using it as my primary bookmarking service since I found out about the firefox extension.

Del.icio.us can make a daily roundup of your bookmarks and post it to your blog. This is what happened last night. I’m not sure if this is good or bad. I will just try it for a while.

wilbertbaan’s bookmarks on del.icio.us

Update April 21, the daily posting speed up the frequency of the blog too much. The three postings are set back to april 3rd to remove them from the frontpage.