Two Swedish Eyes on Media and Public Relations
Undercurrent has some privacy concerns about Norwegian media conglomerate Schibstedt’s new search engine Sesam.
“…searching for a person’s name at Sesam will return not only web pages, but also address, phone number, overview over the person’s board memberships (!), photos of the person and articles about him or her in Norwegian newspapers the last 20 years.”
Related: Nicklas Lundblad writes in Smedjan about how ordinary printers are spying on us (in Swedish).
Gunilla Kinn has some interesting comments on the I’m-just-borrowing-a-few-sentences culture in Swedish journalism.
Another example where established media does not credit the correct source: N24 and the original at Susning.nu/stekare. Instead they make up a fake name: Claës von Braten, who does not seem to exist. Braten means “stekare” (roast) in German. (Hat tip to anonymous commentators in the article on N24).
I’m puzzled by Technorati. My blog has recieved about 20 new incoming links in the last 6 days, of at least 8 or 9 are from blogs that have never linked to me before. But I have been stuck at incoming links from 128 sites for more than a week. It doesn’t seem like Technorati is updating this number as often as they update the actual links. Am I wrong?
The author behind the popular football blog “thefinartoflosing“, that also has become a book, reveals his real identity. The pseudonym “Mats Hård” has been a mystery to the entire Swedish blogosphere until now. Svensk Bokhandel has the scoop.
Via Kulturbloggen.
The American Society of Magazine Editors has chosen the 40 best magazine covers from the last 40 years. Ranked first was Rolling Stone magazine with a photo by Annie Leibovitz of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. The photo was taken on what would be the last day of Lennon’s life.
Brand Autopsy has put together a nice slide show of these 40 covers.
The top 10 magazine covers:
1. Rolling Stone, Jan. 22, 1981, John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
2. Vanity Fair, August 1991, Demi Moore.
3. Esquire, April 1968, Muhammad Ali.
4. The New Yorker, March 29, 1976, Saul Steinberg drawing of Manhattan.
5. Esquire, May 1969, Andy Warhol.
6. The New Yorker, Sept. 24, 2001, Illustration of World Trade Center.
7. National Lampoon, January 1973, “If You Don’t Buy This Magazine, We’ll Kill This Dog.”
8. Esquire, October 1966, “Oh my god — we hit a little girl.”
9. Harper’s Bazaar, September 1992, “Enter the Era of Elegance.”
10. National Geographic, June 1985, Afghan refugee.
This article from CNET is interesting for two reasons. First, Google is inviting 400 people, including bloggers and journalists, to an “off the record” partner forum. In other words, Google is prohibiting participants from writing about the event “To ensure that our presenters and attendees can speak openly”. I wouldn’t exactly call information that is uttered in front of a 400-headed crowd “a well kept secret”.
Second, CNET is apparently updating its articles “blogging style”, by using strike through on “deleted” text (see the bottom of the article).
Via Lost Remote.