Two Swedish Eyes on Media and Public Relations
Behrang Kianzad has an excellent piece about blogs in today’s Expressen.
Jag undrar varför vi är så till lika delar ignoranta som skräckslagna inför bloggfenomenet och hyser ett omåttligt behov av att avfärda bloggar som skitnödiga dagböcker fyllda med meningslösa haranger om det febriga barnet eller senaste toalettbesöken.
The editorsweblog.org blog is currently transformed into “The Editors BlogConf in Seoul” with reports and discussions around the 12th World Editors Forum. If you haven’t checked it out yet, you should. This is a sneak preview to the future of newspapers. Some current highlights from the blog:
Kvällsposten’s political editor Peter J Olsson has started a blog. Link via PJ just nu.
In order to raise awareness about international public relations, Scania will sponsor a professorship in international PR at Örebro University for three years. Inger Larsson, former Chief Information Officer at Gambro has been named guest professor.
The second edition of the Swedish blog forum, artfully named Bloggforum 2.0, was held this weekend in Stockholm. I couldn’t attend because I had other engagements, but I will try to watch the session about blogging to create confidence which will be on SVT 24 on Friday [link via Bisonblog].
15:30 – 16:30 Bloggforum: Skapa förtroende genom att blogga.
Paneldebatt om fenomenet bloggning, med bland andra Zaida Catalán, fd språkrör Grön Ungdom och Fredrick Federley, förbundsordförande centerns ungdomsförbund. Inspelat vid Bloggforum 28/5. Reporter Sanna Volny.
I’m as prone to go ego-surfing on Technorati as the next guy, but it seems you can’t trust the stats at all these days. I’ve had at least 20-30 different new incoming links to my blog the last week or so but Technorati says I still have 159 incoming links from 120 sources, i.e. same as a week ago. If you check my Technorati cosmos you can see that the first 20 hits are from the last four days, while on the second page you suddenly have blogs that linked to me 75 days ago. The third page (hits 60-80) comes up blank. Très strange.