If I didn’t know better, I could almost imagine that news agency TT reads my blog. Spot the similarities in this article about Prime Minister Göran Persson’s raise, and my previous post. Same conclusions, same sources. Now I don’t really think that they got inspired by my post, so I will settle for beating most papers with several hours.
Year: 2005
Lookalikes
Spitting images – journalist Björn Hedensjö of Dagens Industri and actor Keanu Reeves. Or was it the other way around?
Watergate and journalism
The article in Vanity Fair about the unmasking of “Deep Throat” is indeed interesting reading (pdf). A good follow up is this post from Jay Rosen regarding the Watergate scandal and how it affects the common view on the role of journalism in society.
It is the great redemptive tale believers learn to tell about the press and what it can do for the American people. It is a story of national salvation: truth their only weapon, journalists save the day.
Somebody’s gotta be on top
I wish I could get a 4.5% raise, but then again, I’m not the Prime Minister.
According to a press release today, Göran Persson’s salary increases from 111.000 SEK to 116.000 SEK from July 1, that’s a 4.5% increase. Meanwhile, and forgive me if I’m reading these figures the wrong way, statistics (pdf) from LO show that the rest of us must settle for less, between 2.5 and 3.2% increase year-over-year (private sector) at the end of 2004. Figures for the public sector seems to be just above 4%.
Worth noting is that Konjunkturinstitutet recommends an average increase in hourly wages in the municipal sector of no more than 3.7% (pdf).
Mot denna bakgrund och med hänsyn till de för
näringslivet slutna avtalen 2004–2007 är det enligt
Konjunkturinstitutets bedömning samhällsekonomiskt
önskvärt att de kommunala löneökningarna
blir 0,3 procentenheter lägre än enligt prognosen för
2005–2007, dvs. uppgår till i genomsnitt 3,7 i stället
för prognostiserade 4,0 procent.
More stats from SCB here.
Brand evangelists on Flickr
Via Researcher I find an article on AdPulp about brand evangelists who intentionally or unintentionally promote different brands on Flickr. Phew, yet another area where the marketing department needs to monitor the brand. By checking Flickr tags for brand names, you can find out stuff like that Saab outnumbers Volvo, for example (867/530).
Book-meme
Henrik Torstensson and Håkan Jacobson have sent me a book-meme that I will try to answer.
Total number of books owned?
About 300-400.
Latest book I bought?
Angels & demons, Dan Brown
Latest book I’ve read?
Angels & demons, Dan Brown
Five books that mean a lot to me (books I’ve read more than 3 times)?
I haven’t read any books three times, but these books have definitely had some impact on me:
* The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas Adams
* Dead Souls, Nikolaj Gogol
* Catch-22, Joseph Heller
* Marketing, an introduction, Philip Kotler & Gary Armstrong (turned a crappy engineer into a half decent marketer)
* Beach, Alex Garland (every time I think about his book, it makes me want to go back to Thailand, now!)
Tag 5 people and have them fill this out on their blog.
OK, here are five people I would like to see continue the relay race: Per Axbom, Tor Billgren, Sofia Olsson Olsén, Fredrik Pallin and Olav Anders Øvrebø.