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Hi! Thank you for dropping by. I’m Vidar Andersen and I don’t talk about myself in the third person. I’m the founder of blacktar.com and co-founder of the Plone CMS, together with Alan Runyan and Alexander Limi - and I hope to found me some more before that final curtain call. You may also know me from them there internets as ‘blacktar’; my nickname. I have no agenda other than that of participating in the global conversation and this is my personal Blog soapbox.

I’m a Norwegian living in Cologne (Köln), Germany since 2005 and yes, I’m currently single desperate taken.

I’ve been working with web based solutions and services, specializing in usability and content management, since 1997. I somehow survived the roller coaster bubble ride unscathed, but without ever receiving a dotcom cent - nor even some shady options. Yes, I’m not bitter.

These days I’m winning the bread residing as the Head of Digital Media and a member of the board at Clausen + Reitsma GmbH - in a medieval castle with moat and dungeon included. No kidding.

I’m into entrepreneurship, people, cinema, photography, design, music, Open Source, innovation, usability, Squash, inline skating, swimming and you. In further trivia, I’m also a shareholder in the Aston Villa Supporter’s Foundation and a member of the ACLU.

I can also be found floating around the social web thingamajig often referred to as web2.0 - whatever that word may mean to you. You’ll find me larking about at more than the following places:

flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/blacktar/

twitter- http://www.twitter.com/blacktar/

friendfeed - http://friendfeed.com/blacktar

linkedin - http://www.linkedin.com/in/blacktar

xing - https://www.xing.com/profile/Vidar_Andersen

netvibes - http://www.netvibes.com/blacktar

pownce - http://pownce.com/blacktar/

facebook - http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=872470443

dopplr - http://www.dopplr.com/traveller/blacktar/public

second brain - https://blacktar.secondbrain.com/

plurkr - http://www.plurk.com/user/blacktar

brightkite - http://brightkite.com/people/blacktar/

signalpatterns - http://www.signalpatterns.com/profile/show/29515

BlackBerry PIN - 24FD5924

skype - ‘blacktar’

ms im - ‘blacktar’

gtalk - ‘blacktar’

SecondLife - ‘Fish Bates’

Just search for ‘blacktar’ or ‘Vidar Andersen’ on other sites. Feel free to send me invites to new ones! Email me at blacktar@stopmebeforeiblogagain.com.

Caveat Emptor:

Currently I’m not receiving any money from maintaining this blog. I reserve the right to add measures to monetize (no evil lame stuff ever - I swear) on this blog, should the need arise to switch to another more expensive hosting plan and/or change servers.

I hope it’s self evident and makes sense to you that I cannot take responsibility for the external contents that I may link to. Further more, I would like to state - for the record - that the opinions published on this blog do not necessarily reflect those of my employer(s), my own company blacktar.com or occasionally even those of my own.

The contents of this blog is published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license.

All external embedded contents are copyright and licensed by the respective rights holders.

This blog is being hosted in the US of A.

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