Damn you Ernst-Jan! You unfaithful schmuck! You are leaving TheNextWeb.com? How dare you!?
Sorry, had to get that off my chest.
But it is true: Ernst-Jan, after 12 months of full time blogging, is leaving this blog. He got a job offer that he just couldn’t resist.
We are sad and disappointed but also very proud and thankful because Ernst-Jan isn’t leaving us to join another blog or something mundane like that. No, HE is going to be joining a bunch of REAL journalists (Andrew Keen would be proud) at the prestigious NRC Handelsblad.
This is not just any newspaper but a high quality newspaper that can be compared to The Times, The Guardian, and Süddeutsche Zeitung. At NRC Ernst-Jan is going to work on their digital strategy.
Ernst-Jan wrote 741 posts while being the chief editor at The Next Web Blog, and attended and live blogged several events (Le Web (Paris), Web2.0 Expo San Francisco, Next (Germany), LIFT (Geneve), China 2.0 trip, SuperNova, OpenOffice Roadtrip) and organized his own Blog’08 even here in Amsterdam.
If you enjoyed any of his posts (we did!) do me a favor and comment here. Feel free to photoshop a little. It made me feel better…
Shame to see you go EJ :( Good luck at NRC! All the best!
Ernst-Jan, thanks for the fun reads and have a good time at NRC :)
Ernst-Jan Who ??
congratulations Ernst-Jan! have fun at NRC!
@Ernst-Jan: I can only use that one NRC slogan… What’s next? :)
“You unfaithful schmuck!” ;-) Good luck at NRC!
Sad to see him go – he wrote some great pieces and helped build up this blog, and the team contributing to it, to become something pretty special.
I am pleased he’s moving on to a new kind of challenge, and am sure he’ll be as successful in that as he has been over the past year or so at The Next Web Blog. I for one will be keeping in touch with him via Twitter, where he’s @dutchproblogger
I can’t single out a particular favourite story, but you can check out EJ’s contributions with this link – http://thenextweb.com/author/ernst-jan/
Regards, and goodbye you schmuck, David
We can finally talk about it publically ;). Enjoy your 9 to 5 in ROTTERDAM! ;) No really, congrats. Plug the techies while you go mainstream!
Too bad, he wrote some quality articles. Nice tags do
EJ – heel erg veel succes gewenst bij NRC bro!
He’s the second TNW writer to get poached – who’s next! And who’s replacing him as Editor-in-Chief?
@Ernst-Jan: I sincerely thank you for accepting me to be part of ‘The Next Web’ team.
Good Luck for you at NRC
I hate to see you leave at TNW, hopefully your contributions to nrc.next will be just as good…! I’m sure they do. Congratulations on this new, cool, job!
Congratz Ernst-Jan! So, now you should stop using twitter and start sending letters instead. Hope you have a great time there.
Ernst-Jan, a real pity to see you leave. Damn man, why are you doing this…!
I’m proud The Next Web was a great platform for you to get in the picture. NRC is a great paper, but as you know the future of papers is non-existing I’m sure you come back by that time.
No more ping-pong :(
All the best senor
Thanks, put all my frustration into it. ;-)
oh, forgot to say. Nice piece of photoshop art Boris :)
Sad to see you go Ernst. TNW wont be the same without you. Best of luck with your future endeavours.
Congrats on the new job. I always enjoyed your items here, I hope TNW can find a suitable replacement to keep up the quality you stood for.
Call me old fashioned, but I’ve been reading NRC (with only a few foolish stints to de Volkskrant in between) since I was a teenager so I’m looking forward to see your contributions there.
Hihaaa! Great job EJ! Go on and save the newspaper industry cowboy! If anyone can do it, it’s you!!
Hey EJ, great great great chance, nice way to prove what you’re worth! You’ll be missed at Next Web, but interesting to see what you’re gonna do at NRC!
Where can I trade my feedsubscription for a newspaper subscription? ;)
Knock ‘em dead and don’t be a stranger!
Good! You’re infiltrating!
Shake it up.
All the best!
What a loss to TNW. Good luck Ernst-Jan! (And Boris as you search for a worthy replacement.)
Ernst-Jan, welcome to the machine ;)
All the best at NRC, I have no doubt that you will succeed in your task there!
I’ve now completely lost any shred of respect I still had for EJ, leaving to become part of a dying breed.
That said, I have newfound respect for Boris’ photoshop skills now.
All kidding aside, congrats to EJ and all the best!
Hey, congrats. So, when can I start? ;)
good luck mr. famous! ;)
EJ, I remember our conversation at café Le Journal (Utrecht, The Netherlands) about a year ago. “Eventually I want to become a journalist”, you sad. Well, EJ, here you go. All the best at NRC!
thenextweb infiltrates the traditional media?!
Live your life EJ! Great move by NRC btw.
Ernst-Jan, you made some of the, if not the best and most interesting contributions to this blog.
Couldn’t resist the temptation, Ernst on a stallion:
Good luck !
No I did that manually! Liked the image enough to include it here. Will do it to for other photos… :-)
Apparently WordPress automatically turns links into embedded images, didn’t mean to make the thread messy, my bad !
Boris, you just have to make Ernst write a bit :) Who will be the FNG?
Will surely miss the insightful / funny posts. Best of luck for new job.
Congrats Ernst-Jan! Just as Boris put it, I Hate To See You Go, But I Love To Watch You Leave! Really enjoyed your blogging. Best of luck at NRC.
Congrats on your new job!
Good luck with your new job!
Rock on Ernst! ;-)
ok I ment to post this picture with my previous comment but my coding skills let me down I guess since it’s not showing at all.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30705410@N08/3228378399/\
Rock on Ernst! ;-)
[Inserted by editor:]
Ernst-Jan, best of luck on your new ventures!
Actually, I never commented on any of his posts (wait, one, where there was a beta invite to gain, bad me ;)), but I liked Ernst-Jan’s style of writing about tech stuff without foam at the mouth like the one with the crunch.
Tot ziens, Ernst-Jan.
Thanks for the great comments guys, I really appreciate it! Edo, FLoris and Boris, respect for your Photoshop skills! :-)
I’ll write a post later this week about what I’ve learned from The Next Web Blog, Arjen, Patrick and Boris. I can tell you one thing already: it was a blast.
Good luck, Ernst, and take care of that newspaper. Don’t let it die ;)…
Ernst-Jan, good luck! Keep the rockstar & entrepreneurship spirit alive, even in boring newspaper societies.
Congrats & good luck with your new job Ernst-Jan! Let me know if the Handelsblad needs some coverage of the Chinese Internet space :-)
Welcome to the Rotterdam club. Don’t worry, it rocks! Any plans on moving?
Hi Ernst-Jan,
all the best @ NRC!
Have fun at the NRC. I had a great time working with you, especially live blogging like maniacs at the Next Web Conference. I’m sure I’ll see you around soon whether it’s online or at the bar ;) Good luck!
ha, good luck!, don’t forget, bloggers 4 life! :)
I suck at Photoshop, but kudos to the others! All EJ in way ;)
EJ, too bad to see you leave TNW, but I know this is what you wanted. All the best dude!!! And please don’t get attached to Rotterdam…
Hey Ernst-Jan,
Het allerbeste bij NRC, lees ik je ook eens op papier, daar zie ik nu al naar uit!
Loved this post :-)
Hi Ernst-Jan,
Good to read you aim high. I think a salmon would be more appropiate than a shark though. You go swimming upstream to the paper media in order to reproduce some web magic. Interesting times ahead, since newspaper flush editors, whom start blogging & take control of their content.
All the best @ NRC and in reshaping the Dutch media industry!
Cheers,
@Toon
Yes it is! We often stay there and got the address from eBuddy…
Good luck Ernst-Jan!
It was fun hanging out with you (briefly!) in the NextWeb/Twones/Wakoopa office.
@Boris: Isn’t that the pool from the world famous Handlery Hotel in San Francisco? “Close to everything…Far from expensive!”
Cheers,
Mindy
hopefully you can still be a webtipr…. you really made TNW a bit more rock & roll.
now i will continue my subscription @NRC for sure!
all the best amigo!
@gar
All the best Ernst-Jan! No doubt that you’ll be successful!
I should have discovered this great discussion long time ago. Many thanks!
Really cool blog. I found it on yahoo. I am looking forward to read more posts.
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