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The traffic to web site of Jyllands-Posten quadrupled as an effect of the cartoon controversy, reports Norwegian publication Propaganda. Traffic increased from 320,000 unique visitors per week to 1.3 million. Blimey, that’s even more than Linda Skugge’s blog…

Gillette’s Fusion 5-blade razor Super Bowl ad gets ridiculed in record time.

“Gillette Fusion earned the distinction of the evening’s most ridiculed ad, with consumers posting their own homemade parody photos during the game of a Fusion-like razor with nine blades.”

Via Media Orchard.

Dagens Nyheter has launched a blog about the Olympic Games in Turin, but just as with DN’s other blogs, this one has no comments, no permalinks and no RSS feed. Why bother calling it a blog?

Update: I didn’t read this properly. They will not be posting on the blog themselves during the Olympics.

A follow up to my previous post about athletes being banned from blogging during the Olympics. The Swedish women’s curling team, Team Anette Norberg, is currently blogging and promises to be blogging during the Olympics, reports Nacka Värmdö Posten. It seems that someone in the Swedish Olympic Committee should investigate what exactly is forbidden by the IOC, and what is not, or the Swedish curling team might be up for an unpleasant surprise.

Tags: torino, turin, Olympics.

BMW.de gets thrown out from Google.

“Google confirmed today that it has applied its own version of a “death penalty” to BMW’s German website, after the carmaker apparently attempted to boost its popularity ranking artificially on the internet search engine.”

Ricoh.de will face the same destiny. More here and here.

Source: Times Online. Tags: BMW, Google.

In the light of the current debate about freedom of speech, what do you think about this? No athletes or coaches may work as journalists during the Olympic Games in Turin 2006, according to rules set up by the IOC. Those who do, run the risk of being disqualified and even losing their medals. The IOC wants to protect athletes from media coverage inside the Olympic village in Turin.

The rule also applies to web pages and blogs and for example the Japanese Olympic Committee is telling athletes competing at Olympic Games not to open blogs. Discussions are currently taking place as to “whether athletes can update their blog after the Olympics”. Frightening.

The rule was introduced already to the 2004 summer games.

Source: Journalisten. Tags: torino, turin, Olympics.