It was just a matter of time before some medium would add the two major trends blogging and poker together. Expressen now launches a poker blog, written by artist Markoolio. It seems that they announced it a bit too soon though, because the link doesn’t work yet.
Year: 2005
Iranian blog survey
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”.
Ray Ray rules
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.
Who reads this stuff?
Cartoon of the day: Doonesbury on blogging.
Winning bid crashes London 2012 website
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.
Tour de blog
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 (?).