Let’s hope this is the last media project with “24” in the title (please?) At 6 PM this evening, local daily Norrköpings Tidningar launched its new local tv channel 24nt. The channel can be accessed via cabel-tv, Ip-tv, web-tv, pod-tv and terrestrial digital tv. 24nt will be a news channel that runs in 20 minute formats, consisting of 10 minutes of news and sports, 2 minutes of weather and information, two one-minute blocks of commercials and 6 minutes of other programmes.
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Punkt SE looses the dot
Swedish daily Aftonbladet has been under intense fire for naming its new free daily Punkt SE (“dot SE”). The internet portal Spray has been the owner of the domain punkt.se since 1996 and Stiftelsen för Internetinfrastruktur, the foundation that overlooks the Swedish top domain .SE has not taken lightly on the intrusion. In an article in Svenska Dagbladet the foundation writes that Aftonbladet are mooching off the good reputation of the internet and demands that the paper is called something else. The reply from Niklas Silow, chief editor of .SE, raises more questions than it answers:
“Ja, vi renommésnyltar. Men inte på den svenska toppdomänen .se eller Stiftelsen för internetinfrastruktur. För när det gäller nyheter, journalistik eller tidningar har inte topp-domänen något renommé att snylta på. Det har däremot Aftonbladet och jag kan inte tänka mig ett bättre varumärke för en gratistidning att renommésnylta på.”
In short, what he says is that the top domain .se does not even have a reputation for news, journalism or newspapers (!). Eh, I beg to differ. Last time I looked, I noticed several Swedish papers that delivered news via this new thing called the internet. Yes, it’s true.
In his last sentence, Silow opens for a compromise and welcomes a dialogue.
Furthermore, Bonnier still owns the publishing rights for the magazine Se, which it published in the 1970s and Bonnier have threatened Aftonbladet with a law suit.
So today when the paper was launched we can see that Aftonbladet has removed the dot from the logo and the daily called Punkt SE is now ironically without dot. This seems to be a last minute decision since the branded clothes of the distributors still carry the old logo, with the dot.
It remains to be seen if this will be enough to silence the critics.
Update: Pressens Tidning, Martin Jönsson and Beta Alfa 2.0 have already commented.
Materazzi profits on Zidane’s headbutt
The bad boy of Italian football, Marco Materazzi, continues to profit on the now legendary headbutt by Zinedine Zidane in the 2006 World Cup final. The fabulous Nike commercial where Materazzi stops just about anything that bangs against his chest, has been watched almost 250,000 times on YouTube. That commercial is also followed by a superb series of Nike ads with the Italian World Champions, found here.
The copy text supposedly is translated “Materazzi Cupboards. World leading solidity tested for headbutts.”
The patience of a saint – not!
My blog has not been accessible all day due to service maintenance at Spray/Lycos, according to an error message that greeted visitors this morning:
“Due to an operation of maintenance on servers, site is temporary unavailable.
Thanks for your patience!”
My simple response to this is:
1. Don’t assume that I’m patient. To the contrary. Some 8 hours of downtime is not acceptable.
2. Some kind of prior notice would have been polite, so that I could take appropriate measures like for example setting my Google Adwords ad campaign on pause.
3. Are you planning on reimbursing me by extending my current subscription with one day (or ideally more than one day)?
Brighter than a thousand suns
Matthew Hurst is Director of Science and Innovation at Nielsen BuzzMetrics. He has produced this magnificent graphic of the blogosphere. The two bright dots represent Boing Boing and Engadget.
Found via Niall Cook.
Tags: blogosphere, blogs, bloggar, bloggosfären. Ping.
The trouble with “ö”
Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet today launches a blog search portal called Bloggsök.se. But the domain with the letter “ö” is not working, at least not on my computer. Normally the Swedish letters å,ä and ö are replaced by a and o in domain names, but nowadays it is also possible to register domains with å,ä and ö. What you usually do then is, just like Aftonbladet has done, to register both bloggsok.se and bloggsök.se. Sigge, you better check this out.
Tags: blog search, blogs, Aftonbladet, bloggar, bloggosfären. Ping.