Two Swedish Eyes on Media and Public Relations
The Iranian News Agency IRNA reports about a survey of 150 blogs carried out by the Iranian Culture Ministry. When will the Swedish Ministry of Education, Research and Culture become interested in blogs (except when they are forced to by the opposition)?
More info at “so this is mass communication”.
Raphael Saadiq made an excellent performance at Berns in Stockholm last night, which on and off was more rock than R&B.
He played most of his best songs except ‘Detroit Girl’, topping it all with a killer version of ‘Get Involved’ to finish off the encore.
The fact that he forgot the words to ‘Chic Like You’ was just charming. Looking forward to next time, Ray Ray.
I must also give 23-year old Swedish soul talent Melo some praise for his show. We will surely hear more from this voice in the near future. Good stuff.
Update: Aftonbladet writes about the concert (but has the wrong photo, the person in the photo is from another concert in another room at Berns last night). More reviews: DN (not online), Norrbottens-Kuriren, SR, SvD.
Cartoon of the day: Doonesbury on blogging.
Congrats to London for getting the 2012 Olympic Games. I guess I will have to schedule some meetings at our London office around that time…
Apparently the Brits were not prepared (enough) to win, because the website has crashed, probably due to an enormous amount of traffic.
Aftonbladet adds a tour blog to its bouquet of blogs. Artists Darin, Magnus Uggla and Lena Philipsson will write about their upcoming tour through Sweden. To my knowledge it is the first major blog attempt from a well known Swedish artist (?).
För ett tag sedan hänvisade jag till det kortlivade bandet Ojj!600 i samband med att min undersökning av bloggare och bloggläsare lockade 600 respondenter. Ojj!600 påstod jag, tog sitt namn från ett rekordlågt gage (600 kr) vid en konsert. Jag är rätt säker på att jag hörde detta på radio när det begav sig i mitten av åttio-talet, men nu 20 år senare har jag alltså blivit upplyst om hur det egentligen gick till eftersom upphovsmannen hittade anteckningen i min blogg.
Igår fick jag nämligen oväntat nog ett mejl från Per “Stig Vig” Odeltorp där han är vänlig nog att berätta om hur bandet fick sitt namn. Ojj!600 kom från ett tärningsspel som heter 10 000 och där man ska få minst 1 000 poäng för att noteras, men oftast stannade man på just 600. Kom sen inte och säg att bloggar inte bidrar till upplysningen i samhället.