Two Swedish Eyes on Media and Public Relations
Niclas at deep|edition invited a bunch of bloggers to grab a beer tonight at Bagpiper’s Inn at Rörstrandsgatan 20, Stockholm. So why not, I’ll be there. There will be one or two people there whose blogs I read, but have never met IRL.
Tags: öl, bloggträff. Ping.
If you publish the entire RSS feed of your blog (which I strongly recommend as a service to your readers) instead of, say, the first 250 characters of a post, chances are that a good portion of your readers never visit your blog. So if you for some reason decide to change your RSS feed you need to announce the new address within your old feed.
I’m not sure how the details have been communicated here, but I am glad that one of my favourite bloggers, Martin Jönsson of Svenska Dagbladet, has neither quit blogging nor vanished from the face of the earth. I was a bit curious why no new blog posts came up after November 27 last year, but the reason was simply a change of RSS feed (new one here). There are currently more than 80 subscribers to the old feed in Bloglines alone so it could be a good idea to inform them of the switch via the old feed, if it is possible.
Anton, Beta Alfa and Gnu & Tapir write that it seems like Aftonbladet has started using Tailsweep, the advertising network that runs on a number of Swedish blogs, including this one. The assumption was based on a banner that was up for a short while on artist Magnus Uggla’s blog on Aftonbladet.se. And if we look at Tailsweep’s site we can confirm that this is the case. There are at least three blogs in the sports category, including Robert Laul, and six political blogs, including Helle Klein and Lotta Gröning.
Tags: advertising, blog ads, tailsweep, aftonbladet, reklam. Ping.
Once in a while you stumble upon a story that is so amazing you just got to share it with others. This is such a story. Check out the photo realistic art work by Juan Francisco Casas who only uses ballpoint pens to create images that look so realistic you think the guy must be pulling your leg. Can it really be possible?
Two days ago I blogged about how the Swedish National Tax Board is investigating new areas where there is a risk that individuals have income that they withhold from taxation, one of these areas being blogging. Now it doesn’t seem that blogging has become such a big problem yet. Of the total of 420 million kronor that the investigation found were withheld from taxation, 59.9 million were found in the category that include as diverse areas such as:
Dating, SEO services, international web services, internet- and SMS loans, blogs, astrology, electronics/satellite tv, weight control/gym products.
In total, the tax authorities say they have 156 million kronor to claim in taxes.
Bloggers should be aware that tax authorities are looking into the area and that they actually are spidering web sites to find suspects.
Med anledning av rapporten BloggSverige 3 som jag skrev om igår, så vill jag tipsa om att det går att ta del av graferna via ett Flickr set här. Du får använda dem icke-kommersiellt, men du måste hänvisa till källan (dvs hit) då bilderna är licensierade enligt Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike.
De bilder jag lagt upp visar svaren från bloggare i enkäten.
Tags: social media, surveys, enkät, sociala medier, bloggsverige3, bloggar. Ping.