Author: kullin

Kryptonite crisis and its impact on the blogosphere

Dave Sifry has an interesting graph on the number of blog posts in the blogosphere and how it relates to certain events. The Kryptonite bike lock controversy for example created two spikes – first when the news broke in the blogosphere, and second when traditional media picked up on the story which made bloggers discuss the implications.

The Kryptonite case will go down in history as classic example on what happens to a company’s reputation if it fails to handle crisis PR in a blog enabled world.

Via Mymarkup.

Swedish Radio goes RSS

SR, the Swedish public service radio, have launched 33 RSS feeds (via Mymarkup and Persilja.net). Along with the feeds added below, my list of Nordic RSS feeds now has more than 110 feeds.

News:

SR Ekot – News

SR Ekonomiekot – Economy

SR Kulturnytt – Culture

SR Mitt i musiken – Music

SR Musikjournalen – Music

SR Radiosporten – Sport

SR Sisuradio – Finnish

SR Vetenskapsnytt – Science

Local news:

SR Blekinge

SR Dalarna

SR Gävleborg

SR Göteborg

SR Gotland

SR Halland

SR Jämtland

SR Jönköping

SR Kalmar

SR Kristianstad

SR Kronoberg

SR Malmö

SR Norrbotten

Radio Stockholm

SR Sjuhärad

SR Skaraborg

SR Sörmland

SR Uppland

SR Värmland

SR Väst

SR Västerbotten

SR Västernorrland

SR Västmanland

SR Örebro

SR Östergötland

As a reminder, here is my previous list of more than 80 RSS feeds for Nordic media. Included are also press releases RSS feeds.

Sweden:

Beyan.net – Kurdish news

Dagens Nyheter – Top headlines

Dagens Nyheter – News

Dagens Nyheter – Business

Dagens Nyheter – Sports

Dagens Nyheter – Football

Expressen – News

Expressen – Sports

Expressen – Entertainment

Motornyheter FART – Cars and motor sports

Motornyheter FART – Cars

Motornyheter FART – Motor sports

Ny Teknik Technology trade publication

Stockholms Fria Tidning – Opinion

Stockholms Fria Tidning – “Inledare”

Stockholms Fria Tidning – Sweden

Stockholms Fria Tidning – Culture

Stockholms Fria Tidning – Calendar

Stockholms Fria Tidning – Reports

Stockholms Fria Tidning – Sports

Stockholms Fria Tidning – Stockholm

Stockholms Fria Tidning – “Synpunkten”

Stockholms Fria Tidning – TV/radio

Stockholms Fria Tidning – Foreign

Svenska Dagbladet Daily

Sydvenska Dagbladet Daily

Yelah.net “Radical digital news”

Norway:

Aftenbladet

Aftenbladet – News

Aftenbladet – Local

Aftenbladet – Norwegian

Aftenbladet – Abroad

Aftenbladet – Business

Aftenbladet – Politcs

Aftenbladet – Monitor

Aftenbladet – Commentary

Aftenbladet – Editorial

Aftenbladet – Sports

Aftenbladet – Culture

Aftenbladet – Magazine

Adresseavisen

Aftenposten

Aftenposten – News

Aftenposten – Norwegian

Aftenposten – Foreign

Aftenposten – Oslo

Aftenposten – Science

Aftenposten – Business

Aftenposten – Sports

Aftenposten – Elite Serie

Aftenposten – Premier League

Aftenposten – In English

Dagbladet

Dagbladet – Nyheter

Dagbladet – Sports

Dagbladet – Magazine

Dagbladet – Culture

Dagbladet – Friday

Dagbladet – Knowledge

Dagbladet – On your side

Digi.no

IT-avisen

itpro.no

Mobiltelefon.no

Teknisk Ukeblad

VG – Main

VG – Sport

VG – News

VG – Entertainment

VG – IT

Denmark:

Alt om København

Bizreport

Børsen online

Comon

ComputerWorld

CopyMagazine

Daily Rush

DR – News

DR – News (different feed)

DR – Sportss

Filmz.dk

Geek Culture

Netavisen Infopaq

Information

Ingeniøren|Net

MediaMac

Pressefotografforbundet

Sportenkort (10 latest)

TV2 Finans

TV2 Nyhederne

Århus Stiftstidende Netavis

Finland:

Helsingin Sanomat Daily, 5 latest headlines

Iceland:

Morgunbladid – NEW URL!

Swedish press releases etc

Dagensbok.com

IBM – Swedish press releases

IT-universitetet in Gothenburg

Karolinska Institutet – News

Karolinska Institutet – Press releases

Skellefteå

Swedish Research News Blog

Feedster adds ads to feeds

They really tricked me this time. I use Bloglines for RSS feeds and have a lot of Feedster feeds in there. Apparently they’ve started putting in text ads in every feed, that’s where I got the news about Washington Post’s blog awards. I didn’t realize it was an ad post. Had I done that, I wouldn’t have written my previous post because thousands of people would already know this. Since some feeds have very few hits, the ad posts gets high visibility.

Best election blogs awards

Deutsche Welle is doing it. And now Washington Post is doing it. Giving out awards to blogs, that is. (Do I hear anyone say “Hello Sweden?”)

On October 25, Washington Post will be announcing its “Best Blogs – Politics & Elections 2004 Readers’ Choice Awards” to readers’ favorite politics and elections blogs. Categories include Best Democratic Party Coverage, Best Republican Party Coverage, Best Inside the Beltway, Best Outside the Beltway, Most Original and Most Likely to Last Beyond Election Day.

Voting ends on October 15 and [drums please] here (free registration required) are the nominees. Daily Kos is nominated in 7 out of 10 categories. Other obvious candidates are Eschaton, Wonkette, Talking Points Memo, Instapundit and Andrew Sullivan.

A sample from one of the political blogs mentioned above. From Wonkette. Ten reasons to invade Iraq (instead of WMD):

– Didn’t rewind rental tape

– Mixed recyclables

– Wrote a book

– Reads books

– Throws like a girl

– Is too tall

– Fuzzy math

– Prevented OBGYNs from practicing their love

– Wanted us to pass a global test

– Is a BIG GAY