The Swedish Union of Journalists (SJF) today started a blog about a project in Ukraine. SJF is helping journalists to establish and manage unions in Ukraine. The first post was published just an hour and a half ago.
Year: 2005
My Technorati cosmos doubled in a day
A few days ago Technorati suddenly said that the number of links to my blog are about 354, up from about 177 in no-time. Naturally I began to wonder why this figure is double the amount from the day before? It seems that Technorati has been doing some changes to the way they count incoming links and now displays links from blogs over the last six months. I’m unsure if this is the reason though.
Technorati tag: Technorati.
Spray launches blog service
I noticed today that Spray just launched a beta version of a new and free blog service. By the looks of it, it seems to be working, although there still are some major bugs, like when you click on a post on Spray’s site, it shows the wrong blog URL.
CEO turns sailing blogger
Arne Mårtensson steps down as Group CEO of Handelsbanken, one of Sweden’s largest banks, to go sailing round the world for three years. He also declines renominations to the boards of Handelsbanken (where he is chairman), Ericsson (vice chairman), Sandvik, Skanska, Industrivärden, Holmen and Vin&Sprit.; During his trip he will be writing a blog on http://www.yaghanvoyages.blogspot.com/.
H&M flip-flops on Moss
A new chapter seems to be written each day in H&M;’s relation to Kate Moss. Today, H&M;’s CEO Rolf Eriksen tells Dagens Industri’s online edition that they will not rule out the possibility to use Moss in future campaigns.
“You never know what might happen if she changes attitude. The important thing is that she is not a part of this campaign.” [The launch of H&M;’s Stella McCartney collection]
“Kate Moss is one of the most talented models in the world and we hope that she will get help with her problems.”
Back to a softer approach again? What about the potential law suit?
Moss – the perfect poker face
Kate Moss has been offered £5m to front the online poker site nine.com, according to Brand Republic (reg. required). The gambling site has offered Moss a five-year contract to be the face of its new campaign. The contract would come with restrictions, including time in rehab and monitoring to prove she is not taking drugs. Moss was also asked to participate in a nine.com-sponsored anti-drugs campaign aimed at students.
Jack Abrams, a nine.com spokesman, said: “We did a quick focus group with some customers to see if they would be offended in any way and the response was an overwhelming, ‘No — please get Kate Moss as your spokesperson’.”
Sure, poker players would vote for Spongebob Squarepants as spokesperson, as long as it would lure more players into the game.