Interimic has several partners that have 'retired' and have moved to different directions, like myself as I went to Veronica. To build on the strength of the partnership the 'alumni' model has been created, complete with an alumni day with contests and prizes....nice prizes....

Board meeting with IPAN preparing for new members and lots of activities....

The new Veronica Radio school class of 24 had their first weekend together in Amsterdam. Tonight we ate together with live DJ'ing from Strandzuid, definitely something to do more often.

The Elhema exhibition is a roaring success... the catwalk show spectacular, my pictures mostly unsharp....

Minister Plasterk was at the immovator cross media cafe today in Hilversum. He was fed two hours of discussion and pitches. In the panel with him were investors such as Willem van Kooten ("you have to push were it moves" and "Willem's four T's") and also Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, the IPAN, Fleck and Meganova man. Frank 'frankwatching' Janssen made sure that all was captured for online reflection....

Fantastic that Bliin is on the hot Web 2.0 companies in Business 2.0 the leading international magazine/website on everything internet.

The ultimate interactive Dutch geek fest, the yearly beach volleyball party, was a great day again. Over 700 Internet people spent the day playing volleyball and discussing the latest interactive concepts, kit etc. The Ipan team made a great effort to get to the final, but unfortunately we had to let a few other teams beat us too it...

Getting deeper in understanding the music business, I am finding true gems of music I quite like and that bring back fond memories. Today I got a copy of The Hacienda Classics, compiled by New Order's Peter Hook. Rather then buying it on-line, I went to an actual record store 'Get Records' in Amsterdam. The price for the 3 box set (€ 24.99) felt right. I was a surprised though to see the average price of a CD being 1.5 to 2 times the price I pay on iTunes for the same music.

Incredible... I was able to log into Skype again after hours of not being able to, due to 'software problems'. Amazing to see a sub 100k online users ... Just like in the beginning...

Never a dull moment visiting the PostCS building in Amsterdam. At the premises of award winning start ups Wakoopa and Fleck the new Apple keyboard was demoed by demogod Arjen, who shared his experiences being the first owner of the device in Amsterdam.
Next I went to see the reason of being there at the first place, Willem Velthoven, to return his Voigtlander lens he was so kind borrowing me. Willem is very busy preparing for all kinds of wonderful things such as Elhema and Fablab. The latter will be used at PICNIC07 too...

"I don't give a duck" was the credo for today's duck rally with the teams from Kinkfm, Veronica Story, Radio and TV school, Medialab and holding. After a mighty challenging day, we had all winners.....

Back home, having been on holiday in Spain for a week. The iMac an instant hit again...

A day full of new media. Everything in full swing for the Veronica event in September , creating the right atmosphere for the radio show we are preparing for.
Also visiting Erwin Blom who has been hooked by the iPhone virus too. Apparently from the same dealer as the other iPhones I have seen sofar....
Finishing off the day with the preparation for the Beach Volleyball in two weeks with IPAN..

As I will be taking pictures of speakers, delegates and lots more, it has become time again to move a little further in the fine art of photography and add some more tools...
At PICNIC I hope to have this going smoothly and take the great speaker line up into the digital archives...

I went to see the Bliin team today. They are making headway and the application is moving forward adding new functionality all the time, if you like location based social networking, this is a definite go to.

Gorgeous weather makes it a treat to go on the Vespa through and visit places in the sun with live music.

Today's photo workshop by ace photographer Caro Bonink took us all over Amsterdam. Next to checking out the developments at NDSM, we went to see the Gay Canal Parade, a happening that is becoming more and more commercial and lot's of Dutch corporates send their own flagships...

(picture HJ Winkeldermaat)
Interesting to see what happens when a blogger/photographer visits you, in this case me...

Henk-Jan Winkeldermaat came to discuss whether I wanted to Keynote on the High Profile new media conference on November 19. Of course I agreed to do so.

He blogged about the visit, recorded the session and put the pictures online..

New media in full swing....