November 2004 – Page 2

Get buzzwhacked

Do you have an LOK (lack of knowledge) to what words like googleproof mean? Then double click on this ghetto fabulous site to stay on top of the latest buzzwords. Buzzwhack have listed popular buzzwords from 1904 to 2004 and you can read the entire list in The Guardian. Recent examples:

1996 ghetto fabulous

1997 dot-commer

1998 text message

1999 Google

2000 bling bling

2001 9/11

2002 axis of evil

2003 sex up

2004 chav

Googleproof: One of the few benefits of sharing a name with a celebrity. It’s virtually impossible for anyone to “google” or find out about you using an Internet search engine. You’re googleproof.

More about new words: Swedish slang dictionary.

Via Constantin Basturea.

More on the cover up

Isobel Hadley-Kamptz gives sister paper Dagens Nyheter another blow on Expressen’s web page today regarding the deleted sentence from Oivvio Polite’s text from Bloggforum.

Spitting images

Spot the similarities? The new ad format on the top of both di.se and dagensps.se makes them look very similar.

Footnote: Dagens Industri made their redesign before DagensPS.

Aftonbladet launches electronic posters

Dagens Media reports that Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet has started with electronic posters in some stores in Stockholm. These tv screens are primarily supposed to promote Aftonbladet and can be updated centrally at any time. They can also contain ads for other products like snuff or gambling.

Blogger demographics

Blog demographics ClickZ has an article about blogosphere statistics.

I had seen some of it before at Technorati, but this information about blogger demographics was new to me. According to a Perseus study about 90 per cent of all bloggers are between 13 and 29. Which means that I am among the 7.5 per cent oldest bloggers out there. Ouch, maybe I can get a senior discount on my web hotel.

By the way, no bloggers over 69?

Via Micro Persuasion.

Reaching 20K

One of my favourite PR bloggers Neville Hobson reached 20,000 hits to his blog last Sunday. So I checked my stats on Monday night and found out that I had reached 20,000 unique visitors, exactly 20,000. How uncanny. Number of hits was around 26,000.