Last week Mike Manuel did some research on the frequency of posts among fellow PR bloggers, including me. He concludes that “the average PR blogger creates a little more than 50 posts per month or ~2 posts per day”. During the period that he researched, my blog doesn’t reach that figure, but on the other hand 25% of the content was generated by one single blogger, Steve Rubel of course, so I think I did fine.
Category: Other
Musicplasma
Blogging has gotten me several new contacts around the world that I would never had the chance to know if I hadn’t had this blog. Today I had the great opportunity of meeting Yann Mauchamp, Development Manager at World Editors Forum, an acquaintance only made possible through blogging.
Apart from discussing all kinds of media, internet and social networking related topics, Yann also gave me tip about this cool page that helps you find new artists based on your music preferences. Type in the name of an artist at www.musicplasma.com and it will give you several suggestions. This is a very good illustration of my music taste circa 1984.
Dagens Nyheter censors article about Peter Borgström
Journalist Oivvio Polite today wrote a story about Bloggforum that took place on Monday night. It was published in Dagens Nyheter’s culture section, the very one that Peter Borgström wrote for. He was critized earlier this year by Stockholm Spectator for plagiarizing articles from the New York Times.
When Polite wrote his article, it contained a sentence about Borgström, but DN deleted that sentence without informing Polite. The sentence is in the middle of the article, so it cannot have been taken off because of lack of space.
His original text, published on his own webpage:
“What have for example all non-blogging journalist got to hide? A lot, if you should believe the blogger that revealed that DN journalist Peter Borgström had been borrowing a bit too much from the New York Times.”
In Swedish:
“Vad har till exempel alla ickebloggande journalister att dölja? En hel, om man skall tro bloggaren som avslöjade att DN-journalisten Peter Borgström lånat lite väl flitigt ur New York Times.”
The last sentence, in italics, had been erased by DN. The entire article is available on Polite’s webpage in Swedish.
Link via Gustav Holmberg.
UPDATE: DN answers to critisism in Journalisten.
Swedish science mag launches group blog
I overheard this during Bloggforum on Monday evening and via Erik Stattin I found the link. Swedish science and technology magazine Forskning & Framsteg has started a group blog. Among the 12 bloggers there are 7 journalists from Forskning & Framsteg, one journalist from electronics magazine Elektroniktidningen, one associate professor in psychology from Stockholm University, one linguistic researcher from Swedish Institute of Computer Science, one historian and one professor emeritus in zooecology from Uppsala University.
The blog allows comments and has an RSS feed, but no visible permalinks. For some reason the RSS feed doesn’t show up in my Bloglines account, although it says “10 new items”. Hope it is just a temporary bug.
Halebop launches Sweden’s “first” mobile blog
Halebop today launched the first (?) mobile blogging solution in Sweden, according to a press release. For 5 SEK (about 0.55 Euro) mobile phone users can get a private blog for their photos on www.halebop.se. To promote the launch Halebop lets hip hop bands Snook, MMBA and Chords have their own mobile blogs on the site. So far, they are not very blog-like, but rather a Flickr-like hosting solution for photos from camera phones. No permalinks for example. And question is if it even is the first solution in Sweden. Zmart launched a mobile blog solution in April 2004, but I can’t quite figure out how it works and if you are able to post photos or not.
Swedish version of this blog
I have started a Swedish version of this blog because there are times when it is easier to write in my native tongue, and some stories might only be relevant to Swedish readers. In addition, some Swedes might find it easier to comment in Swedish. The blog is called Sfumato (definition).
I just posted a text in Swedish on Sfumato about a rising interest in blogs from traditional media, which indicates that the decreasing number of articles in October was just a dent in the curve.
Recent articles (in Swedish):
Internetworld
Nerikes Allehanda and Bergslagsposten
Dagens Media
Internetworld
Dagens Media