Torbjörn Bergmark is blogger of the week at the Swedish daily Västerbottens-Kuriren. But in the middle of his blogging he went missing and he is nowhere to be found. However, there’s no need to worry. Bergmark is the editor in chief of VK and he left to an unknown destination to celebrate his 60th birthday. Now the editorial staff turns to the readers in a plea for help. Has anybody seen our blogger?
Month: March 2006
A creative afternoon
It has been an inspiring afternoon in Stockholm City Hall. As I’m riding the bus home I’m trying to summarize my thoughts about the whole creative class model and I realize that I need to let it sink in for a day or two.
One thing though that I found to be a common theme in the commentaries afterwards was that few were willing to completely accept the notion that Sweden ranked first in the creativity index. There are of course political aspects of that, PJ Anders Linder wrote about that in SvD the other day. More on this later.
Every human being is creative
I have just listened to the presentation by Richard Florida at the Folkhemmet 2.0 event in Stockholm. His theory is that we currently are going through the greatest economic shift in history, greater than the industrialization. He is talking about the shift to a creative economy, a change not based on natural resources, but based on the human mind.
He claims that 50 percent of people in Stockholm are employed in what he calls creative industries, a number that is higher than any other city that he has researched. The numbers for Gothenburg and Malmo are 45 percent and 40 percent. Creative industries are for example science, entrepreneurship, art, entertainment etc.
His advice is to leverage the creativity in everyone, he is not talking about a creative elite. And successful societies are defined by 3T: Technology, Talent and Tolerance.
But as was noted in the following debate that Florida had problems with proving a connection between high creative ranking and prosperity.
I’m off to the seminar
I’m sending this post on my way to the seminar in order to see if blogging via mobile works.
Noticed by the way that CNN will cover the event. Good, I’m there, CNN is there, we’re ready to go…
Moblogging the seminar with Richard Florida
Today I will be attending a very interesting seminar in Stockholm. The Swedish Institute has been kind enough to invite a number of bloggers to attend a seminar with author Richard Florida and others, free of charge. I know that at least two great bloggers will be present too, Jonas Morian and Jonas Söderström.
Richard Florida is the author of the bestseller Rise of the Creative Class and the follow-up called Flight of the Creative Class. His speech this afternoon is titled “The New Global Competition for Talent”.
If my moblogging efforts work out, I might try to put some notes up during the afternoon.
Technorati tags: Richard Florida, moblogging.
Swedish murder blog
An employee at the Regional Enforcement Authorities in Umeå kept a blog during work hours. The blog contained information and theories about a spectacular murder and during two months he spent about 25 percent of his work blogging. The blogger is now on sick-leave and the blog, called Swedish Murders, is now deleted, but as always, there is Google cache.