Two Swedish Eyes on Media and Public Relations
Stowe Boyd offers 10 useful tips for getting on the A-list of blogs.
1. True Voice
2. Throw Yourself Into Dialog
3. Draw The Line, Over And Over Again
4. The Big Idea
5. Sharpen Your Pencil, And Then Write.
6. Courage
7. Technology
8. Timing Matters
9. Human Sized Pieces
10. Respond to comments
Via PR Communications.
It’s not every day that the world’s most linked-to blog gives you a link back, but that happened yesterday when Boing Boing published my “world exclusive scoop” about Flickr passing 100 million photos.
Maybe I should start to collect inbound links from the Technorati Top 100. I have six so far:
1. Boing Boing
2. Engadget
30. Joystiq
72. Micro Persuasion
97. we make money not art
100. Scripting News by Dave Winer
So, let’s think. What do I need to do to get noticed by Daily Kos and the Huffington Post…?
Technorati tags: Technorati, Boing Boing, Engadet, Daily Kos, Scripting News.
From Dagens Nyheter (dead-tree version) this morning. The headline reads “Woman might be new Managing Director of the Swedish Shareholders’ Association”. You would never ever see the same headline starting with the word “Man”. Promise.
Metro International loses 5.2 million dollar in 2005, reports Dagens Media. This is an improvement compared to 2004 when the group lost 9.5 million dollar. Turnover increased by 19 per cent to about 360 million dollar.
And today Orvesto published their latest newspaper statistics for Sweden, which show that Dagens Nyheter is the only of the major paid dailies that increased its reach in 2005. DN is up 10,000 readers to 917,000 readers while Göteborgs-Posten (-3,000 to 574,000 readers), Svenska Dagbladet (-3,000 to 468,000), Dagens Industri (-17,000 to 417,000) and Sydsvenskan (-13,000 to 393,000) are all down compared to 2004.
The two tabloids Aftonbladet and Expressen are also seing declined reach. AB is down 32,000 to 1,412,000 readers and Expressen -3,000 to 1,184,000.
Free dailies Metro and City are up: Metro +276,000 to 1,380,000 and City is up 89,000 to 581,000 readers.
Technorati tags: Metro, newspapers, media.
As I was posting my previous post, I noticed that my photo had an ID number close to 100 million (to be exact, 99,999,468) so I checked the Flickr site’s most recent photos and they all had numbers just above 100 million. In other words Flickr this morning passed 100 million photos.
Here is number 100,000,000:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mzan71/100000000/
UPDATE: Here are a few more milestone numbers at Flickr:
#10,000
#100,000 not available
#1,000,000
#10,000,000
Technorati tags: flickr, 100 million.
The Swedish celebrity/gossip magazine Hänt Bild sent its latest issue to our home as part of a direct marketing campaign. The envelope seemed to have been opened and resealed because the mailman couldn’t keep his hands off it.
The text on the envelope reads “Sorry, I couldn’t restrain myself. / The mailman”
Below, the real mailman clarified: “Not written by the mailman, Täby”.
Technorati tags: advertising, marketing, media.