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Moblogging the seminar with Richard Florida

Today I will be attending a very interesting seminar in Stockholm. The Swedish Institute has been kind enough to invite a number of bloggers to attend a seminar with author Richard Florida and others, free of charge. I know that at least two great bloggers will be present too, Jonas Morian and Jonas Söderström.

Richard Florida is the author of the bestseller Rise of the Creative Class and the follow-up called Flight of the Creative Class. His speech this afternoon is titled “The New Global Competition for Talent”.

If my moblogging efforts work out, I might try to put some notes up during the afternoon.

Technorati tags: Richard Florida, moblogging.

Swedish murder blog

An employee at the Regional Enforcement Authorities in Umeå kept a blog during work hours. The blog contained information and theories about a spectacular murder and during two months he spent about 25 percent of his work blogging. The blogger is now on sick-leave and the blog, called Swedish Murders, is now deleted, but as always, there is Google cache.

“Expressen-blogger” used to be an invective

I’ve been away for a week of alpine skiing and I’m ready to pick up the blog again. Here are a few things worth mentioning from the last week.

– Blog Buzz Helps Companies Catch Trends in the Making. [Via Marcus]

“By trawling in cyberspace, ConAgra sensed that consumer interest in portable snack foods is growing as people’s schedules get busier, the kind of intelligence that helps guide expensive decisions on research and development of new products.”

– Jay Rosen has a new project called Blue Plate Special. In the first issue he and a group of students have studied the Best Blogging Newspapers in the U.S. Top six are:

1. Houston Chronicle (128 points)
2. Washington Post (69 points)
3. USA Today (38 points, 1 honorable mention)
4. St. Petersburg Times (29 points, 2 honorable mention)
5. Atlanta Journal-Constitution (23 points)
6. San Antonio Express-News (22 points, 1 honorable mention)

– Readers have started 700 blogs just a few days after Expressen launched its blog service. It’s interesting to see that some established bloggers have launched mirror blogs on Expressen.se just to increase traffic to the “real blog”. What happened to the tabloids-are-evil standpoint? (And remember in 2005 when Expressen-blogger was an invective?)

Two year anniversary

Happy two year anniversary to my blog. I started goofing around with this blog, Media Culpa, on 17 Feb, 2004 and I never expected to get any readers, nor did I expect to put this much time and effort into it. But it has been a rewarding experience, although not in monetary terms.

PubSub or SubPar?

I can’t say that I’m extremely impressed by the accuracy in PubSub’s LinkRank. A quick check for the last week shows that PubSub is pretty far from being correct. White cells are PubSub stats for my blog, pink cells are Technorati links and actual numbers.

Zlatan and Henke won’t be blogging the World Cup

It looks like the Swedish football team will be subject to a no-blog policy during the World Cup 2006, just like the German team.

– I can’t imagine that there will be other rules than during the last European Championships, Lars Richt of the Swedish Football Association told Aftonbladet.

The Swedish FA implemented a new policy for the last WC in Japan and Korea 2002 that said players could not write columns in newspapers during the tournament. Richt says that blogging will be included in the policy.