Social Democrat behind email campaign analyzed latest election
Fredrik Reinfeldt, the leader of the Swedish Moderate party, has been the target of a dirty email campaign containing false accusations. The person behind the emails turned out to be a senior employee in the Social Democratic Party and one of Prime Minister Göran Persson's closest men. According to media reports he was responsible for analyzing opinion polls.
But he did more than that. He was one of eight people in a committee that analyzed (pdf) the latest election - the 2004 election to the EU Parliament. The group came up with suggestions for future elections based on the analysis. He was in other words a central figure in the party's campaign strategy planning.
"Valresultatet i EU-parlamentsvalet den 13 juni 2004 blev mycket sämre än vad vi hade förväntat oss och långt under de mål vi ställt upp, både när det gäller valdeltagandet och vårt eget resultat. Det låga valdeltagandet är något vi delar med många länder runt om i unionen, det är också fler partier i vårt land som har anledning att fundera över resultatet.
Men trots det finns det skäl för oss socialdemokrater att göra en egen noggrann analys av valresultatet. Inte minst för att systematisera våra erfarenheter, både organisatoriska och politiska, till nästa riksdagsval 2006."
But he did more than that. He was one of eight people in a committee that analyzed (pdf) the latest election - the 2004 election to the EU Parliament. The group came up with suggestions for future elections based on the analysis. He was in other words a central figure in the party's campaign strategy planning.
"Valresultatet i EU-parlamentsvalet den 13 juni 2004 blev mycket sämre än vad vi hade förväntat oss och långt under de mål vi ställt upp, både när det gäller valdeltagandet och vårt eget resultat. Det låga valdeltagandet är något vi delar med många länder runt om i unionen, det är också fler partier i vårt land som har anledning att fundera över resultatet.
Men trots det finns det skäl för oss socialdemokrater att göra en egen noggrann analys av valresultatet. Inte minst för att systematisera våra erfarenheter, både organisatoriska och politiska, till nästa riksdagsval 2006."
Expressen launches blog feature
Expressen follows in the footsteps of Norwegian daily VG and launches a blog feature. Readers can start their own free blog which will be hosted on Expressen.se. The service seems to be so new that I can't even find where to register.
Via Urban.
Via Urban.
Open letter to Bosse Andersson, Expressen
Dear Bosse,
Your competitor Aftonbladet yesterday acquired the blog portal Bloggportalen.se for an undisclosed sum. This is great news for Expressen. Among all the Swedish blog portals, Sigge Eklund's Bloggportalen is probably the last one I would have invested in, had I been in your shoes (sorry Sigge, I'm a regular reader of your blog though). It is a register of 3,500 blogs with little functionality other than presenting a number of blogs in different categories. As the blogosphere evolves, many blogs on the site will become inactive and the time spent on putting in new ones will be overwhelming. Of course, Aftonbladet will probably develop some way of updating the register automatically (note: beware of spam blogs). A library of blogs is just not that interesting, and here's why - the blogosphere isn't really about blogs, it is about the content in blogs. And Bloggportalen is not about blog content.
A central feature of the blogosphere is connectivity and the core of that connectivity is the "ping". Johan who runs a number of brilliant blog portals has done something extremely smart. He has created a site (Nyligen.se) that most Swedish bloggers ping when they have a new blog post. He has another called Intressant.se that sorts content into different categories. From this information he has been able to build other cool sites like Knuff.se which analyzes and sorts the information on Swedish blogs, letting readers follow how different topics or articles gets discussed in the blogosphere. It's a bit of Technorati mixed with PubSub, all RSS enabled of course.
Now, Bosse, you start to get my point. Expressen should buy Nyligen, Intressant and Knuff and hire Johan Larsson for an embarrassingly high salary. Around these different portals I'm sure Expressen could build some really nice features that Aftonbladet would envy.
Best regards,
Hans
Footnote: Bosse Andersson is Head of Expressen.se
Update: Podradio and Urban Lindstedt comment too.
Your competitor Aftonbladet yesterday acquired the blog portal Bloggportalen.se for an undisclosed sum. This is great news for Expressen. Among all the Swedish blog portals, Sigge Eklund's Bloggportalen is probably the last one I would have invested in, had I been in your shoes (sorry Sigge, I'm a regular reader of your blog though). It is a register of 3,500 blogs with little functionality other than presenting a number of blogs in different categories. As the blogosphere evolves, many blogs on the site will become inactive and the time spent on putting in new ones will be overwhelming. Of course, Aftonbladet will probably develop some way of updating the register automatically (note: beware of spam blogs). A library of blogs is just not that interesting, and here's why - the blogosphere isn't really about blogs, it is about the content in blogs. And Bloggportalen is not about blog content.
A central feature of the blogosphere is connectivity and the core of that connectivity is the "ping". Johan who runs a number of brilliant blog portals has done something extremely smart. He has created a site (Nyligen.se) that most Swedish bloggers ping when they have a new blog post. He has another called Intressant.se that sorts content into different categories. From this information he has been able to build other cool sites like Knuff.se which analyzes and sorts the information on Swedish blogs, letting readers follow how different topics or articles gets discussed in the blogosphere. It's a bit of Technorati mixed with PubSub, all RSS enabled of course.
Now, Bosse, you start to get my point. Expressen should buy Nyligen, Intressant and Knuff and hire Johan Larsson for an embarrassingly high salary. Around these different portals I'm sure Expressen could build some really nice features that Aftonbladet would envy.
Best regards,
Hans
Footnote: Bosse Andersson is Head of Expressen.se
Update: Podradio and Urban Lindstedt comment too.
Aftonbladet co-operates with blog portal
Aftonbladet today launched an initiative where all the input from readers will be collected in one main page, Läsarbladet ("Readers' paper"). Aftonbladet also launched a co-operation with [Edited] one of the larger Swedish blog portals Bloggportalen.se that contains links to and presentations of 3,500 Swedish blogs.
Kalle Jungkvist, editor-in-chief of aftonbladet.se uses the D-word, not very common in Swedish media - dialogue.
- [...]previously journalists have been a megaphone to the public. I believe that in the future journalism will shift towards more of a dialogue with readers.
On Läsarbladet readers will be able to discuss and influence the content by writing articles, vote and participate. Readers will get to vote on what stories a Readers' Reporter will write.
Technorati tags: Aftonbladet, citizen journalism, media, journalism, blogs.
Kalle Jungkvist, editor-in-chief of aftonbladet.se uses the D-word, not very common in Swedish media - dialogue.
- [...]previously journalists have been a megaphone to the public. I believe that in the future journalism will shift towards more of a dialogue with readers.
On Läsarbladet readers will be able to discuss and influence the content by writing articles, vote and participate. Readers will get to vote on what stories a Readers' Reporter will write.
Technorati tags: Aftonbladet, citizen journalism, media, journalism, blogs.
Media in cat fight over mailing list
Update 3: Journalist Mustafa Can published an article this morning in Dagens Nyheter about an exclusive mailing list called "Elit" (Elite). A number of journalists are members of the list and one DN journalist has been suspended for having revealed the upcoming article for the list members, although she says it is not true.
Here is the original article (all articles below in Swedish).
Übermobbning på nätet
Interesting to see that DN also points to Knuff.se for blogs that comment on the topic.
http://knuff.se/q/elit/
Aftonbladet:
New 23 Feb: 93 kändisar på hemliga mejllistan
Kändisarnas hemliga skvallermejl avslöjade
Fanns på lista - fick sparken från DN
Dagen:
New 23 Feb: I marginalen
Dagens Media:
Neos chefredaktör om Söderqvists angrepp på Hanne Kjöller på Elit
Dagens Nyheter:
New 23 Feb: Elitlistan korrumperar
New 23 Feb: De virtuella frimurarna
New: "Skilj på offentligt och privat"
DN-skribent avstängd efter listkommentar
"Deltagande handlar om att känna sig utvald"
Mejlstorm efter DN:s artikel
SvD-journalist kritiserar DN
Expressen:
New 23 Feb: Min elit
New 23 Feb: Cecilia Hagen: Får jag vara med och mobba?
Mustafa Can tvångs-rekryterad till listan
Mustafa Can hotad efter avslöjandet
Kändisklubb avslöjar stjärnornas sexliv
Martin Timell: "Det är kriminellt"
"Vad är det för olämpligt att vara med i ett samtal"
Reporter fick sparken av DN:s kulturchef
Stig-Björn Ljunggren: "Det är som en middagsbjudning"
Utdrag ur mejllistan
Vi i "hemliga klubben" gör rätt som skrattar åt DN
Journalisten:
Flera journalister på Bards lista
Metro:
New 23 Feb: Bards Elitlista har utlöst moralpanik
Resumé:
Jan Wifstrand: "Ovanligt med granskning av mediefolket"
DN sparkar Elitmedlem
DN:s Mustafa Can hotad i natt
Bard tvångsrekryterar Wifstrand
PO om Elit: "Fruktansvärt pinsamt"
Dagens Medias krönikör medlem i Elit
DN:s kulturchef: "Alexander Bard är en sektmästare"
Men hallå...
Svenska Dagbladet:
New 23 Feb: Skvaller i mejl vållar debatt
New: Punschskvaller i frimurarlogen
Östersunds-Posten:
New 23 Feb: Nätverket i den unkna källarvåningen
Here is the original article (all articles below in Swedish).
Übermobbning på nätet
Interesting to see that DN also points to Knuff.se for blogs that comment on the topic.
http://knuff.se/q/elit/
Aftonbladet:
New 23 Feb: 93 kändisar på hemliga mejllistan
Kändisarnas hemliga skvallermejl avslöjade
Fanns på lista - fick sparken från DN
Dagen:
New 23 Feb: I marginalen
Dagens Media:
Neos chefredaktör om Söderqvists angrepp på Hanne Kjöller på Elit
Dagens Nyheter:
New 23 Feb: Elitlistan korrumperar
New 23 Feb: De virtuella frimurarna
New: "Skilj på offentligt och privat"
DN-skribent avstängd efter listkommentar
"Deltagande handlar om att känna sig utvald"
Mejlstorm efter DN:s artikel
SvD-journalist kritiserar DN
Expressen:
New 23 Feb: Min elit
New 23 Feb: Cecilia Hagen: Får jag vara med och mobba?
Mustafa Can tvångs-rekryterad till listan
Mustafa Can hotad efter avslöjandet
Kändisklubb avslöjar stjärnornas sexliv
Martin Timell: "Det är kriminellt"
"Vad är det för olämpligt att vara med i ett samtal"
Reporter fick sparken av DN:s kulturchef
Stig-Björn Ljunggren: "Det är som en middagsbjudning"
Utdrag ur mejllistan
Vi i "hemliga klubben" gör rätt som skrattar åt DN
Journalisten:
Flera journalister på Bards lista
Metro:
New 23 Feb: Bards Elitlista har utlöst moralpanik
Resumé:
Jan Wifstrand: "Ovanligt med granskning av mediefolket"
DN sparkar Elitmedlem
DN:s Mustafa Can hotad i natt
Bard tvångsrekryterar Wifstrand
PO om Elit: "Fruktansvärt pinsamt"
Dagens Medias krönikör medlem i Elit
DN:s kulturchef: "Alexander Bard är en sektmästare"
Men hallå...
Svenska Dagbladet:
New 23 Feb: Skvaller i mejl vållar debatt
New: Punschskvaller i frimurarlogen
Östersunds-Posten:
New 23 Feb: Nätverket i den unkna källarvåningen
Svenska Dagbladet falls off Observer's blog list
Suburbia lists the blogs on Swedish media monitoring company Observer's revised list (pdf) of blogs they track. There are some surprises on the list: PR agency JKL, PJ Anders Linder of Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet and Sven Otto Littorin of the Moderate Party are all taken off the list. To be included a blog is supposed to be able to influence traditional media and/or public opinion. Media Culpa is still on the list though.
Got milk - yes. Got blog - no.
Farm trade publication (is that a proper label?) ATL went on a search for Sweden's blogging farmers and after several weeks they had found - none!
Two year anniversary
Happy two year anniversary to my blog. I started goofing around with this blog on 17 Feb, 2004 and I never expected to get any readers, nor did I expect to put this much time and effort into it. But it has been a rewarding experience, although not in monetary terms.Edelman PR hires blog guru
Edelman PR has hired the master of the PR blogosphere, Steve Rubel. His blog Micro Persuasion is one of the most linked-to blogs on the planet and I coined him the most influential PR blogger already back in May 2004.
A big congrats to Steve who will continue to blog on Micro Persuasion for Edelman.
A big congrats to Steve who will continue to blog on Micro Persuasion for Edelman.
Impressive numbers for editor's blog
I have been praising Swedish daily Norra Västerbotten before for their way of initiating a dialogue with readers via a (proper) blog. They have also invited readers to blog on the web site. Today I read that the blog of editor-in-chief, Sofia Olsson Olsén, has 640 subscribers. That may not sound a lot, it's just above 2 per cent of the paper's total circulation of 29,400, but I think it is quite impressive. Not many Swedish blogs can compete with 640 subscribers. Well done.
Interviewed in FoF
I'm interviewed in the latest issue of science magazine Forskning & Framsteg about online behaviour. A summary can be found here, but if you desperately need to read my quotes you have to buy the magazine.
What a difference a link makes
A few very influential inbound links was just what my blog needed in order to race up to the summit of PubSub's list of PR blogs. Yep, I'm enjoying my fifteen pixels of fame, as long as it now may last.
Take the A-train to blog stardom
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.
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.
Collecting links from Technorati Top 100
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.
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.
Headline of the day
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 made pretax loss of 5.2 MUSD
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.
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.
Flickr just reached 100 million photos
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.
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.
Don't mess with the mailman
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.
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.
Four things
I got tagged by Chris and Scott, so here goes:
Four jobs I've had
Product Quality Engineer
Product Inspector
PR Consultant
PR Manager
Four movies I can watch over and over
Being John Malkovich
Le Grand bleu
Life of Brian
Star Wars: Episode IV
Four TV shows I love to watch
Seinfeld
Friends
Prison Break
Extreme Makeover - home edition
Four places I've been on vacation
Italy
Thailand
Greece
New York
Four favorite dishes
Tom Kha Gai
Yakiniku
Salmon
Anything Italian
Four Web sites I visit daily
CyberJournalist
Mymarkup.net
Dagens Media
Vassa Eggen
Four places I'd rather be
Koh Tao, Thailand
In my summer house
Barcelona
In the slalom slope
Four bloggers I am tagging
Fredrik Wackå
John Cass
Andy Lark
Colin McKay
Four jobs I've had
Product Quality Engineer
Product Inspector
PR Consultant
PR Manager
Four movies I can watch over and over
Being John Malkovich
Le Grand bleu
Life of Brian
Star Wars: Episode IV
Four TV shows I love to watch
Seinfeld
Friends
Prison Break
Extreme Makeover - home edition
Four places I've been on vacation
Italy
Thailand
Greece
New York
Four favorite dishes
Tom Kha Gai
Yakiniku
Salmon
Anything Italian
Four Web sites I visit daily
CyberJournalist
Mymarkup.net
Dagens Media
Vassa Eggen
Four places I'd rather be
Koh Tao, Thailand
In my summer house
Barcelona
In the slalom slope
Four bloggers I am tagging
Fredrik Wackå
John Cass
Andy Lark
Colin McKay
Hallands Nyheter goes tabloid
Journalisten reports that the Swedish daily Hallands Nyheter will change from berliner to tabloid format no later than April 2007. The primary reason is a decision from Friday last week, to move to a new printing house.
Don't leave your cell phone out of sight
The Guardian writes about how they managed to track a person's location through their cell phone.
Via CyberJournalist.
"There is no trace of what I'm doing on her phone. I can't quite believe my eyes: I knew that the police could do this, and telecommunications companies, but not any old random person with five minutes access to someone else's phone. I can't find anything in her mobile that could possibly let her know that I'm checking her location."Bodström-ish stuff.
Via CyberJournalist.
Media Center blog on the move
The Media Center's Conversations blog, that I am contributing to, has moved to a new address: http://www.mediacenterblog.org/
Jyllands-Posten #6
The traffic to web site of Jyllands-Posten quadrupled as an effect of the cartoon controversy, reports Norwegian publication Propaganda. Traffic increased from 320,000 unique visitors per week to 1.3 million. Blimey, that's even more than Linda Skugge's blog...
Super Bowl ad parody
Gillette's Fusion 5-blade razor Super Bowl ad gets ridiculed in record time.
"Gillette Fusion earned the distinction of the evening's most ridiculed ad, with consumers posting their own homemade parody photos during the game of a Fusion-like razor with nine blades."
Via Media Orchard.
"Gillette Fusion earned the distinction of the evening's most ridiculed ad, with consumers posting their own homemade parody photos during the game of a Fusion-like razor with nine blades."
Via Media Orchard.
Dagens Nyheter has a diary about the Olympics
Dagens Nyheter has launched a blog about the Olympic Games in Turin, but just as with DN's other blogs, this one has no comments, no permalinks and no RSS feed. Why bother calling it a blog?
Swedish curling team is blogging the Olympics
Update: I didn't read this properly. They will not be posting on the blog themselves during the Olympics.
A follow up to my previous post about athletes being banned from blogging during the Olympics. The Swedish women's curling team, Team Anette Norberg, is currently blogging and promises to be blogging during the Olympics, reports Nacka Värmdö Posten. It seems that someone in the Swedish Olympic Committee should investigate what exactly is forbidden by the IOC, and what is not, or the Swedish curling team might be up for an unpleasant surprise.
Tags: torino, turin, Olympics.
A follow up to my previous post about athletes being banned from blogging during the Olympics. The Swedish women's curling team, Team Anette Norberg, is currently blogging and promises to be blogging during the Olympics, reports Nacka Värmdö Posten. It seems that someone in the Swedish Olympic Committee should investigate what exactly is forbidden by the IOC, and what is not, or the Swedish curling team might be up for an unpleasant surprise.
Tags: torino, turin, Olympics.
BMW gets "Google death penalty"
BMW.de gets thrown out from Google.
"Google confirmed today that it has applied its own version of a "death penalty" to BMW's German website, after the carmaker apparently attempted to boost its popularity ranking artificially on the internet search engine."
Ricoh.de will face the same destiny. More here and here.
Source: Times Online. Tags: BMW, Google.
"Google confirmed today that it has applied its own version of a "death penalty" to BMW's German website, after the carmaker apparently attempted to boost its popularity ranking artificially on the internet search engine."
Ricoh.de will face the same destiny. More here and here.
Source: Times Online. Tags: BMW, Google.
Freedom of speech on hold during the Olympics
In the light of the current debate about freedom of speech, what do you think about this? No athletes or coaches may work as journalists during the Olympic Games in Turin 2006, according to rules set up by the IOC. Those who do, run the risk of being disqualified and even losing their medals. The IOC wants to protect athletes from media coverage inside the Olympic village in Turin.
The rule also applies to web pages and blogs and for example the Japanese Olympic Committee is telling athletes competing at Olympic Games not to open blogs. Discussions are currently taking place as to "whether athletes can update their blog after the Olympics". Frightening.
The rule was introduced already to the 2004 summer games.
Source: Journalisten. Tags: torino, turin, Olympics.
The rule also applies to web pages and blogs and for example the Japanese Olympic Committee is telling athletes competing at Olympic Games not to open blogs. Discussions are currently taking place as to "whether athletes can update their blog after the Olympics". Frightening.
The rule was introduced already to the 2004 summer games.
Source: Journalisten. Tags: torino, turin, Olympics.
A conversation about media
I have been invited by John Bell at OgilvyPR to contribute to the "We Influence" section of the Morph blog, which is the "online home of The Media Center Conversation, a global, cross-sector exploration of issues, trends, ideas and actions to build a better-informed society. It's a collaborative project that rips, mixes and mashes people from radically different spheres of activity and thought to share and learn from each other."
The Media Center is part of the American Press Institute and the blog will also have posts from industry luminaries such as Steve Rubel, David Burn and Chris Perry to name just a few. Go and check out the site, I think it will be quite interesting.
The Media Center is part of the American Press Institute and the blog will also have posts from industry luminaries such as Steve Rubel, David Burn and Chris Perry to name just a few. Go and check out the site, I think it will be quite interesting.
DagensPS "borrows" article from Computer Sweden
SBAB:s corporate blog is a success, reports Urban Lindstedt in Computer Sweden. A few hours later, DagensPS publishes the same story, without any reference to the source. Pure cut and paste journalism. See for yourself.
Technorati tag: plagiarism.
Technorati tag: plagiarism.
Expressen starts local vodcasts
Swedish tabloid Expressen today launched a series of vodcasts, or pod-tv feeds. SVT announced earlier this week that it will launch pod-tv on Monday, but Expressen managed to beat SVT.
Four local daily shows will be available for video mp3-players or for viewing on a PC: Stockholm, Göteborg, Skåne region and Östergötland region.
Stockholm: http://extra.expressen.se/podcast/stockholm.xml
Göteborg: http://extra.expressen.se/podcast/goteborg.xml
Skåne: http://extra.expressen.se/podcast/skane.xml
Östergötland: http://extra.expressen.se/podcast/ostergotland.xml
Technorati tags: vlog, vodcast, media, video blog television.
Four local daily shows will be available for video mp3-players or for viewing on a PC: Stockholm, Göteborg, Skåne region and Östergötland region.
Stockholm: http://extra.expressen.se/podcast/stockholm.xml
Göteborg: http://extra.expressen.se/podcast/goteborg.xml
Skåne: http://extra.expressen.se/podcast/skane.xml
Östergötland: http://extra.expressen.se/podcast/ostergotland.xml
Technorati tags: vlog, vodcast, media, video blog television.
Ads on Google Maps
Peter Davidson has found a photo of a business that supposedly painted a huge logo on the roof with the purpose of being seen on satellite photos on Google Maps.
Via Much Ado About Marketing and MIT Advertising Lab.
Via Much Ado About Marketing and MIT Advertising Lab.
Jyllands-Posten #5
Very little has been written about the Jyllands-Posten debacle in Danish journalism publication Journalisten due to press deadlines, but editor Jakob Elkjær promises full coverage in the next issue, due out on 15 March.
Jyllands-Posten #4
Carsten Juste, editor-in-chief at Jyllands-Posten, might be a diplomat in disguise. Yes, he is currently making new friends all over the world. In an interview in today's Dagens Nyheter he inadvertently puts the finger on what this whole issue is about - the right for ignorant pricks to speak their minds.
DN: What have you learned from the Muhammad-affair?
- I have learned to appreciate humor more and the Danish character. Humor is in short supply in the world, especially with you [Swedes]. In regards of humor, there are ten Danes on one Swede.
That's the spirit. Any more nations or religions you would like to insult, while you're at it? It is so much easier to laugh at others, and maybe that is why Juste feels Danes have more humor. The last time I had the privilege of being entertained by a Danish journalist, in an international setting, most of the jokes were at others expense, including loads of prejudices against gays. In an article about humor in the French publication Libération, Swedish humor was characterized as "in the politically correct Sweden, it is more accepted to laugh at yourself than at others, even if everyone realizes that you are actually laughing at others". Go figure.
DN: What have you learned from the Muhammad-affair?
- I have learned to appreciate humor more and the Danish character. Humor is in short supply in the world, especially with you [Swedes]. In regards of humor, there are ten Danes on one Swede.
That's the spirit. Any more nations or religions you would like to insult, while you're at it? It is so much easier to laugh at others, and maybe that is why Juste feels Danes have more humor. The last time I had the privilege of being entertained by a Danish journalist, in an international setting, most of the jokes were at others expense, including loads of prejudices against gays. In an article about humor in the French publication Libération, Swedish humor was characterized as "in the politically correct Sweden, it is more accepted to laugh at yourself than at others, even if everyone realizes that you are actually laughing at others". Go figure.
Jyllands-Posten #3
Jacques Lefranc, editor-in-chief of France Soir, got fired yesterday as a result of the publication of the infamous caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed. The owners of France Soir said in a statement that Lefranc was removed from his position "as a strong sign of respect for the convictions of the individual".
Swedish Television launches vodcast
Swedish Television SVT will start vodcasting on Monday, or pod-tv as they prefer to call it. The following shows will be available as free downloads via RSS:
- Rapport
- Gomorron Sverige
- Smålandsnytt
- Agenda
- Nyhetstecken
- Toppkandidaterna
- Filmkrönikan
- Öppet Arkiv
Pod-tv (vlog, video podcast, vodcast, videocast are other similar terms) is simply video content made available via RSS. But it is not the first vodcast in Sweden, as they claim. Rektorsakademien also has a pod-tv show available.
Via David Hall. Technorati tags: vlog, vodcast, rss, video blog television.
- Rapport
- Gomorron Sverige
- Smålandsnytt
- Agenda
- Nyhetstecken
- Toppkandidaterna
- Filmkrönikan
- Öppet Arkiv
Pod-tv (vlog, video podcast, vodcast, videocast are other similar terms) is simply video content made available via RSS. But it is not the first vodcast in Sweden, as they claim. Rektorsakademien also has a pod-tv show available.
Via David Hall. Technorati tags: vlog, vodcast, rss, video blog television.
Jyllands-Posten #2
The French publication France Soir today published the controversial caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed, previously published by Jyllands-Posten. Dagens Nyheter writes that the purpose is to "initiate a discussion about the strong reactions around the world, caused by the publication in Denmark". As if there was a need for more fuel to this controversy.
Skugge has lost it
Aggeman is spot on today when he critizes Expressen-blogger Linda Skugge, who is ranting about the fact that an anonymous blog with 130,000 page visits is called a success, while her own blog has more (145,000) per month.
"Han har haft 130 000 sidvisningar sen aug och det kallas succé. Jag har haft mellan 1-2 miljoooooner träffar sen aug. Och sen maj när jag började måste det bli det dubbla. Jag lovar att Hemliga pappan kommer sälja massor. Det känns som om jag hjälper fram en massa människor som sen säljer multum. Men ingen hjälper nånsin fram mig."Crikey, Skugge's blog is part of Expressen.se, one of the most visited web sites in Sweden. "Nobody ever helps me" she writes. Well, Expressen.se has about 12 million visits per month so if only about one per cent reads Skugge's blog, I'd say it's a huge failure. Why all this envy? Skugge is one of a handful Swedish bloggers who get paid to blog, that's not enough help?
