Tag Archives: belgium

Sites of the Year? I Think Not

By Nils Geylen | December 16, 2008

Call me a grinch. Yesterday Belgian tech and web consumer magazine Clickx held its annual Website of the Year Awards. If anything, the results only tell me the sorry state the Belgian web seems to be in - or at…

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Dovecote

By Nils Geylen | July 9, 2008

A dovecote or dovecot is a building intended to house pigeons or doves, which were an important food source in history. In some cultures, particularly Medieval Europe, the possession of a dovecote was a symbol of status and power and…

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The Steampunk Internet

By Nils Geylen | June 20, 2008

Don’t you hate getting scooped? By the New York Times at that?

Well, perhaps scooped is a tad too steep.

True, I’d been forever thinking of doing a post about the Mundaneum — a 1930s attempt at creating a catalogue of all…

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