I am one of the jury members of the web 2.0 startup competition in Spain today. All is broadcasted live at Blogak, you could have seen and heared me through skype. My three favourites: Properazi, Trivop and 11870. I wish all of them the best of Luck and hope for Loic that Trivop will be a big success :)

We had the official launch of Picnic'07 today at the venue where the event will take place at the end of September, the Westergas terrain. Over 200 people attended the launch party where we introduced the 'uncork your brain', the full set is here.

The preparations for the PICNIC07 launch event are in full swing indeed...

My first shots with the N95 are my first efforts to start shooting and exploring with this new device. There are a lot of elements to find on this nifty and snazzy little machine and once I will have installed Bliin, it will offer me most of what I need I think. Let's see
Anyhow the pictures are of the guys of Lift from Geneva, one of our Picnic alliance partners. They where on their way to Korea and we had the chance to spend a few hours together...

As of today I am Managing Director of Veronica Holding. As you can imagine I am excited with to work with my new colleagues and partners....

Blognomics 07 the third in the series of new media events is behind us again. A roller coaster with again more speakers as last time, how many one can fit in a few hours remains the puzzle to crack, some more Krijn and I think. In stead of depth, we took the breadth road again...
We enjoyed it a lot, and of course we hope everybody did. The comments and post can be found through among others Technorati....

With Blognomics 07 only one day away, I was interviewed for BNR by Herbert Blankesteijn on user generated media. Together with me in the DIY session for the programme was Willem Velthoven of Mediamatic. He did not bring his M8 unfortunately....

Very busy days indeed. Not only launched DCIF investment Wakoopa, but also a lot of activity on Picnic '07. Workshops on sustainability and the shoot for the new '07 campaign that will be introduced on May 21.....
And the book of Eckart Wintzen on the doormat... I gave him the inspiration for the format, snazzy...

What is happening with TV and moving picture was tonights topic at Ipan. I had the honor moderating the evening, since Ronnie Overgoor was part of the panel. Very challenging moderating such an impressive panel. The MP3 reports can be found on the Ipan website shortly, the video at TV4b and the pictures as of right now.

It is nice to live next to the Vondelpark and the Museumsquare. Especially on Queensday as it would be very difficult to get into town...With the great weather it was extremely busy...

Feels like summer...

With the hot weather, only the cool minded won at Ilsemedia's kart event. A wonderful group of people pushing the boundaries of technology....

In June 2005 I went to Japan and of the many interesting media and technology applications we saw, HDTV for me was a true eyeopener. Unfortunately HDTV is still not really around and only since very recently true 1080p TV's can be bought here in The Netherlands. I went for the Sony 40w2000, an impressive machine indeed! Connected to it is an Apple TV. A great combination indeed and up and running straight out of the box. A little more HD content would be appreciated...

The team is in full preparation for Picnic '07. One of the elements to understand in detail is the location of Picnic, the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam.....

I am going through a 'reporter' photography course. Quite interesting for someone like me who likes to shoot 'wide open' to have to take pictures at f11 rather then the normal f1.....

Location is everything in 'where' and Bliin have found a great new one....

At today's IPAN board meeting we discussed the next event that will be all about an update on New Television developments. Television requires both creativity and money to be successful. Ronnie brought a briefcase with the latter? We will never know as he did not want to share the contents of it...

The final media activity on this very nice and sunny day was reading through a lot of printed magazines. In the Emerce of the month I hit our advertisement for Blognomics 07 that will take place on May 10. As the room has a limited capacity we will probably be 'sold out' soon ....

The second media activity today was the visit to the 60 year anniversary of the WereldOmroep. Together with Gert Jan Bennen of Dutch Creative Industry Fund I joined a quiz show, unfortunately we did not win....

I was invited by the Film museum to attend the Biennale. The movie I selected was 'Der Mandarin' an Austrian movie from 1918, with live music in the beautiful Tuschinsky cinema...

Now that the team for PICNIC '07 is getting completer and completer, it was time to have a dinner together again, especially as many of us will be attending Milia in Cannes next week. We had it at Pont13 a refurbished ferry, excellent food in a great environment complemented by great weather...

An inspiring evening at 'The art show' the medialab of the public broadcasters in The Netherlands. At an informal setting some interesting presentations were mixed with sufficient time to absorb and share what came by... Pentabytes of digital pictures and film must have been made. Bliin had a good session as one of the new wave of media formats that presented..

The open coffee meet up was a good start of the day again. Next to meeting some familiar faces, I met with new people too.
A special treat was seeing Twones' Diederik Martens sporting his Koyono coat...

With nice weather and nice friends, the Dutch second Easter day was spent well....

Chris Hindley, the resident hairdresser at Spoiled in the Wolvenstraat, gave Roderick the classic English rock star haircut he has been sporting quite some time now...

Every first Tuesday of the month, we have our IPAN meeting gathering over 100 internet professionals for an interesting session with key players in the industry followed by 'schmoozing' or networking as we call it. This time the topic was VCnight and I had the pleasure being on stage representing DCIF with some other Dutch VC's. Stef Kolman of Bliin, one of our portfolio companies gave an excellent pitch to the gathered vc's and internet professionals...