The end of 2004 also means the end for two Swedish magazines. TTG have decided to stop publishing Bazaar, a magazine for interior design and ICA Förlaget, now known as Forma Publishing Group, will not continue to publish the marketing magazine Sälj & Marknadsföring. Both titles will be dropped due to insufficient ad sales.
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What’s up with PubSub?
Something seems to have changed with PubSub’s LinkRanks the last 24 hours. My ranking has dropped considerably, and so have several other blogs that yesterday were in the top 10,000, while many others have seen no change at all. I know that the rankings can change substantially overnight, but this seems to be more than a coincidence. For example:
* Adland 36,290 (-35,103)
* CorporateBloggingBlog 42,407 (-22,787)
* Crossroads Dispatches 36,938 (-32,603)
* Earnie the Attorney 37,366 (-33,985)
* Kunal.org 36,553 (-34,735)
* Media Culpa 40,039 (-32,544)
* Micro Persuasion 35,795 (-35,558)
* Mymarkup.net 38,346 (-34,058)
* NevOn 36,733 (-34,674)
Could it be that PubSub are adjusting their system in a way that affects some blogs a lot, while others are not affected at all? Steve, it’s your client. Am I too suspicious or has something changed?
Housewives top TiVo list
What tv viewers really really want to see. TiVo Top 25 for the last week (ending 19/12/04). Top ten looks like this:
1. Desperate Housewives
2. The Apprentice
3. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
4. Lost
5. ER
6. The West Wing
7. CSI: Miami
8. Survivor: Vanuatu, Islands of Fire
9. Joey
10. CSI: NY
Desperate Housewives will debute on Swedish channel Kanal 5 this spring. Via Lost Remote.
Virus Bulletin starts blog
Swedish e-mail list Virus Bulletin (Svenska Viruslistan) has started a blog about stuff related to internet security, reports IDG. It is being run by security expert Per Hellqvist from Symantec, but he points out that it is a personal blog and not an official corporate blog.
[Press] Room for improvement
Neville Hobson has found an interesting report from Nielsen Norman Group about how to design a website in order to serve journalists best. Executive summary here.
One journalist described what he’d do when he could not find a press contact, or any of the facts he needed for his story:
“Better not to write it than to get it wrong. I might avoid the subject altogether.”
The top-five reasons journalists gave for visiting a company’s website:
* Find a PR contact (name and telephone number)
* Check basic facts about the company (spelling of an executive’s name, his/her age, headquarters location, etc.)
* Discover the company’s own spin on events
* Check financial information
* Download images to use as illustrations in stories
Doves visit some cities, or just London
I shouldn’t be telling you this, because it’ll make it more difficult for me to get tickets next time they’re in town, but Doves are on a mini tour to create some buzz around their third album “Some Cities”, due in February. The Guardian has reviewed the band’s performance on Wednesday at Hammersmith Palais in London. Watch out for this must-have album and a possible European tour.