Year: 2005

Sweden’s most popular blog hardly a surprise

I must be Sweden’s worst PR man, having 150 subscribers to my blog feeds in Bloglines alone, I only managed to muster 16 votes in Internetworld’s survey for Sweden’s best blog. And that included one vote from myself – how pathetic. At least I’m better than the entire PR firm JKL (right Billy 😉

Liberal debater Johan Norberg won comfortably with more than 10% av all the 2029 votes. Here’s the top 50 list (212 blogs got votes) and my blog is at #29.

1. Johannorberg.net (220 votes)
2. Copyriot (184)
3. I hjÀrtat rebell (142)
4. PiraZine (123)
5. Manolo (86)
6. 456 Berea Street (85)
7. Annica Tiger (63)
8. The Broken Face (57)
9. Annas blog feat Mel E (47)
9. The Jet Set Junta (47)
9. Veckans Streetartfunderingar (47)

12. Beneath a steel sky (46)
13. Mymarkup (39)
14. Karin’s style blog (36)
14. Stambord – The Stockholm Spectator blog (36)
16. Blind Höna (33)
17. Blog.attac.se (31)
18. Internetbrus (28)
19. Bajs.se (26)
20. Biblioteksrelaterat (26)

21. Subjektiv (23)
22. Tesugen (21)
23. How to learn Swedish in 1000 difficult lessons (20)
24. AdLand (19)
25. Hegdehog in a storm (18)
25. Issambre (18)
25. Margot Wallström (18)
25. Researcher.se (18)
29. Media Culpa (16)
29. Torstensson (16)

31. Mine (15)
31. Yukio (15)
33. Dagens Agnes (14)
33. Henrik Alexandersson (14)
33. Idas blogg (14)
33. Steffanie Muller: NĂ€sta Bandhagen (14)
37. GĂ€rningsmannaprofilen (13)
38. Entrepenörsbloggen (12)
38. Frihetspropaganda (12)
38. Stationsvakt (12)

41. Det progressiva USA (11)
41. No illusions – Chadies NU-blogg (11)
43. Opposition (10)
44. P-blog (9)
45. Hakank blogg (8)
45. Kommenterat (8)
47. Deeva (7)
47. JKL Blog (7)
47. Svensson Svensson (7)
50. Superblog!! (6)

You know you’re obsessed with blogging when…

B.L. Ochman has a fun check list for how to know when you’re obsessed with blogging:

– You check your blog before you brush your teeth in the morning and before you shut out the lights at night.
– You check Technorati and PubSub at least 20 times a day to see how many posts are linking to your name.
– You own a t-shirt with a slogan about blogging.
– You scan newspapers for stories about blogging before you read the front page news.
– You are blogging while you eat your meals.
– You’ve turned down social plans so you can blog.

Popenapping a domain

The new Pope Benedict XVI has already got his domain kidnapped by a Belgian and a blogger in Florida. BenedictusXVI.com and BenedictXVI.com are both taken. As is thepope.com, hisholiness.com, popebenedictxvi.com and josephratzinger.com. Seems like a pop(e)ular guy.

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Me in the leftist establishment?

How kind of Dick Erixon to label me a part of the leftist establishment. I’ve always wanted to be part of an establishment. And the left – that’s really something. He writes, about the Observer report:

”I rapporten framkommer ocksĂ„ kritik mot bloggarna, talande nog mest frĂ„n dem som tillhör etablissemangen pĂ„ vĂ€nsterkanten.”

Well, Erixon misunderstands me entirely and I think we can agree on many things in the report. The report that I’m quoted in says:

För politikerna kan bloggarna bli mĂ€rkbara. De kommer att granskas i större utstrĂ€ckning Ă€n tidigare. ”Partiledarna kommer att nagelfaras som aldrig förr av sina meningsmotstĂ„ndare. MeningsmotstĂ„ndare som inte bryr sig om journalistiska dygder som saklighet, kĂ€llkritik och opartiskhet”, sager Hans Kullin


This is not criticism against blogs per se. It was a comment about what politicians probably will have to face in the next election campaign, namely a variety of bloggers ranging from the serious, professional opinion leaders with well-documented texts, references and so on, to the fanatic lunatic fringe on both ends of the political spectrum who stop at nothing to get their opinion out. There are pros and cons with blogs, but the positive effects outnumber the negative many many times.

But I am not as positive as Erixon that I dare say that only the serious ones will have an audience. If Ny Demokrati managed to get into the Swedish Parliament, I’m sure enough moonbats will be online to stir up a debate also on the not-so-nice blogs.

Erixon lists a number of positive effects blogs will have on the election campaign and I agree on all of them.

Norton comes out

Staying anonymous in the blogosphere seems to be a harder task than what some might have expected. The blogger who writes under the nom de plume “Alicio Hernandez” got outed (or did he?) a few weeks back after months and months of speculation. Today, the second pseudonymous blogger, “Norton Tierra” of Stockholm Spectator has decided to uncloak himself after what has probably been an immense pressure. One can only recommend anyone that intends to become an integral part of the blogosphere and still remain anonymous to take into consideration what would happen if their true identity was exposed, and if that risk is worth taking. That said, even though I prefer to know who I am debating with, seems like a more fair game, I don’t approve of people trying to expose anonymous bloggers.