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Francisco van Jole, Rotterdam, the Netherlands


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Short Bio

Francisco van Jole (1960) is a journalist, who specializes in Internet coverage and works for print, tv, radio and online media. He co-hosts the national radio show 'TROS Radio Online' and has a bi-weekly column in de Volkskrant, a major Dutch national newspaper. Van Jole lectures regularly about a wide range of subjects concerning the impacts of an online society.

In 1994 he published 'The Internet Sensation', an account of his travels through cyberspace. In 1995 he started the Daily Planet, a daily electronic newsletter that was voted the most popular online Dutch language publication in 1997. The total number of e-mail subscribers reached 30,000 when he decided it was time to move on.

Currently he works on a new book.

His Dutch mailing-list with news about his personal experiences has over 5,000 subscribers.

He lives and works in Rotterdam.

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