Category: Other

I have been interviewed in some media this year about blogging and the papers that have published interviews or linked to my blog are the following:

* Interview with TT Spektra was published during November and December in (see pdf):

Dagbladet (Sundsvall)

Hallandsposten

Hudiksvalls Tidning

Hälsinge-Kuriren

Jönköpings-Posten

Karlskoga-Kuriren

Karlskoga-Kuriren (again)

Kinda-Posten

Linköpings Tidning

Ljusdals-Posten

Mariestads-Tidningen

Nyheterna (Kalmar)

Piteå-Tidningen

Skaraborgs Läns Tidning

Skånska Dagbladet

Smålands-Tidningen

Skövde Nyheter

Tranås Tidning

TT Spektra

Vestmanlands Läns Tidning

Vetlanda-Posten

Vimmerby Tidning

Örebro Kuriren



* Internetworld published a long article about corporate blogging in December.

* Media monitoring company Observer ranked my blog the fifth most influential in Sweden. The list was published in:

Dagens Nyheter (Nov ??, not online)

Dagens Media (Nov 15) subscr. required

IDG.se (Nov 15)

Internetworld (Nov 15)

Sydsvenskan (Nov 21)

Falu-Kuriren (Nov 22)

Sundsvalls Tidning (Nov 22)

* I was interviewed for a longer article in Dagens Media along with Tove Lifvendahl of JKL and Mark Comerford of Stockholm University. Article was published in ?? (must check) and is not online.

* Sweden’s first blog forum, Bloggforum 2004, was held in November and got some extra publicity when Dagens Nyheter censored a review of Bloggforum by journalist Oivvio Polite. Articles (that did not mention my blog) about the forum was published in:

Internetworld (Nov 15)

Göteborgs-Posten (Nov 17)

Smedjan (Nov 18)

Dagens Nyheter (Nov 19)

Journalisten (Nov 22)

Expressen (Nov 25)

Internetworld (Dec 10)

Helsingborgs Dagblad (Dec 13)

Norrbottens-Kuriren (Dec 14)

Piteå-Tidningen (Dec 16)

Norra Västerbotten (Dec 18)

Sofia Olsson Olsén, editor-in-chief of Swedish daily Norra Västerbotten has “done a PJ”, i.e. started a blog on the paper’s web pages. The blog is called Sofia OO just nu (see PJ just nu) Nice initiative, although the blog is missing just about everything that makes it a blog, like permanent links, an RSS feed and comments (well, you can comment at the bottom of the blog, but not individual posts). And she doesn’t link to any other information on the web, so it sure looks more like a diary to me. Interesting to see one of the few comments, that negative comments supposedly have been removed. My advice, try make it more interactive and blog-like by adding the stuff mentioned above. Then it will be an interesting section on the paper’s web page because Sofia OO writes in a very personal and candid way (example below for Swedish readers).

I övrigt fick jag samtal från en arg dansk boende i Ske-å som undrar om Norran äger aktier i Canal Digital. Vi har tydligen 100 procent av deras filmutbud i TV-bilagan, medan bara 40 procent av Viasats filmutbud. Jag får kolla det. Vi byter leverantör av bilaga vid årsskiftet, jag tar det nästa år. Särskilt om han ringer och är sur igen.

Many readers seem worried that Sofia will not have any time left for herself with the added work load of writing a diary. I sure would like to see the same concerns for PJ Anders Linder of Svenska Dagbladet…

“Läser och följer dina onsdagsrader, uppskattar din ärlighet och raka rör. Försöker även följa dagboken på nätet, i mån av tid. Men jag blir också lite orolig över dig? Hinner du med att ta hand om dig själv? Mellan möten, fotograferingar, möten igen, barnen, mail, modem (som kan driva vem som helst till vansinne!!!)”

Swedish PR agency Springtime got sued a few years ago by Spring Time Electronic Publishing for trademark infringement. Spring Time works with graphic production and publishing, while Springtime mainly works with public relations, lobbying and consulting. The district court has now decided that, although both companies are active in commercial communication and marketing, their respective businesses are quite different in terms of key competence and services. As a consequence Springtime gets to keep its name, reports Pointlex.

A new study looks at information management and meaning construction practices of online distributed classification (or free tagging) communities, like popular online services such as Furl, del.icio.us or Flickr.

“We have definitely arrived at a point in the development of human knowledge where the amount of content published online everyday far exceeds the ability of anyone to categorize and index such wealth of information. Even for a hypothetical individual or organization of great skill and capacity, the task of processing all that content would pose an almost insurmountable problem, without even considering the difficulty of developing and maintaining a taxonomy to accommodate the speed at which new knowledge is produced.”

“[…] One approach, made possible by advances in network technologies, is to distribute the task amongst the maximum number of individuals possible. […]

This principle of distribution is at work in socio-technical systems that allow users to collaboratively organize a shared set of resources by assigning classifiers, or tags, to each item. The practice is coming to be known as free tagging, open tagging, ethnoclassification, folksonomy, or faceted hierarchy […] One important feature of systems such as these is that they do not impose a rigid taxonomy. Instead, they allow users to assign whatever classifiers they choose.”

Some of the findings were quite interesting, for example that people used the “extended tag” as an informal way of notifiying a smaller community about certain links, like “for David” or “Did anyone attend this event?”. Also, according to the study, “people seem to find more value in reviewing links than in submitting them”.

The practice of distributing classification of content can be quite useful for filtering the huge amount of information on the internet. Both Flickr and del.icio.us allows you to read links with a certain tag (http://del.icio.us/tag/tsunami) and subscribe to it via RSS (http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/tsunami). I have not yet used Furl enough to be able to comment on its functionality.

In the wake of the tsunami disaster, Sweden’s Ministry for Foreign Affairs are working hard to locate as many of the missing Swedes as possible. On Tuesday they sent an SMS to all Swedish mobile subscribers currently in Thailand, urging them to contact the Swedish embassy in Bangkok or to get in touch with their families back home. About 10,000 SMS’s were sent. According to the Ministry’s press contacts, they received more than two thousand names of people missing, many of people who are traveling on their own and aren’t on the travel agencies’ lists. Two individuals had collected 100 and 400 names, respectively, which they sent to the authorities.

A similar SMS was sent yesterday to Swedes currently reported to be in Sri Lanka. There are still more than 1400 Swedes missing.

Sweden’s fourth largest daily, liberal Göteborgs-Posten now distributes content via RSS in five different categories:

Gothenburg: http://www.gp.se/rss/index.jsp?d=113

Sweden: http://www.gp.se/rss/index.jsp?d=102

World: http://www.gp.se/rss/index.jsp?d=103

Sports: http://www.gp.se/rss/index.jsp?d=104

Entertainment: http://www.gp.se/rss/index.jsp?d=180

Footnote: Link to my list of 172 Nordic media RSS feeds.