Of course Romano Prodi claims victory in the Italian elections today. Them Italian fools thought they were voting for the Ipod 🙂
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One in five Norwegians read blogs weekly
Many Norwegians are reading blogs. As many as 840,000 Norwegians (about 18%) are reading blogs on a weekly basis, and 7 per cent of the people surveyed read blogs daily, according to a survey by newsletter Mandag Morgen. One in three with internet access have also written something on a blog.
Footnote: Norway has a population of 4.6 million.
Wackå calls it quits
One of the most read Swedish bloggers, at least internationally, Fredrik Wackå, stops blogging on his popular CorporateBlogging blog to focus on his Swedish blog.
Why don’t the tabloids care?
Expressen columnist Linda Skugge wants the Swedish football team to boycott the World Cup in Germany in a protest at extra brothels being set up for visiting football fans. What an excellent idea, and at no risk whatsoever for Skugge herself.
But why not start by arguing that her own employer should stop endorsing the World Cup, for example by handing out tickets to Sweden’s games, see link next to Skugge’s column? Above this column there is a banner to Expressen’s World Cup site www.vm06.se and we can expect most papers to exploit the World Cup during the coming months. There’s a lot of money to be made here. Let’s face it Linda, your salary is paid by World Cup fans. What are you going to do about that?
And while we are talking about women’s rights, why does the model in the photo below have to be a nude woman painted with the Swedish flag? I thought we were talking about the men’s World Cup here.
…just for the record, I strongly disapprove of prostitution. OK?
Influence only in opposition
Social democrat Lennart Nilsson has been a member of the Swedish Riksdag for 30 years, longer than any other member in the current parliament. He is interviewed in today’s Metro:
Which period have you enjoyed the most?
– Acutally when we were in opposition in 1991-94. I was part of the parliamentary party under Ingvar Carlsson. I then felt that we had influence over politics.
(Då kände jag att vi hade inflytande över politiken.)
Exclusivity in 2006
Dagens Industri’s car reporter HÃ¥kan Matson goes to a press event for the concept car Saab Aero X.
“A norwegian paper drags the car away to [a gas station] and the reporter gets incredibly upset when we join him. He says he’s got exclusive rights to the idea. But at the gas station there is also a young girl, who takes a photo of the car with her cell phone. A few seconds later all her friends have an MMS-photo of the Aero X.
That’s exclusivity in 2006.”
DI Weekend, 7-8 April 2006.