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I have been invited by John Bell at OgilvyPR to contribute to the “We Influence” section of the Morph blog, which is the “online home of The Media Center Conversation, a global, cross-sector exploration of issues, trends, ideas and actions to build a better-informed society. It’s a collaborative project that rips, mixes and mashes people from radically different spheres of activity and thought to share and learn from each other.”

The Media Center is part of the American Press Institute and the blog will also have posts from industry luminaries such as Steve Rubel, David Burn and Chris Perry to name just a few. Go and check out the site, I think it will be quite interesting.

Peter Davidson has found a photo of a business that supposedly painted a huge logo on the roof with the purpose of being seen on satellite photos on Google Maps.

Via Much Ado About Marketing and MIT Advertising Lab.

Very little has been written about the Jyllands-Posten debacle in Danish journalism publication Journalisten due to press deadlines, but editor Jakob Elkjær promises full coverage in the next issue, due out on 15 March.

Carsten Juste, editor-in-chief at Jyllands-Posten, might be a diplomat in disguise. Yes, he is currently making new friends all over the world. In an interview in today’s Dagens Nyheter he inadvertently puts the finger on what this whole issue is about – the right for ignorant pricks to speak their minds.

DN: What have you learned from the Muhammad-affair?

– I have learned to appreciate humor more and the Danish character. Humor is in short supply in the world, especially with you [Swedes]. In regards of humor, there are ten Danes on one Swede.

That’s the spirit. Any more nations or religions you would like to insult, while you’re at it? It is so much easier to laugh at others, and maybe that is why Juste feels Danes have more humor. The last time I had the privilege of being entertained by a Danish journalist, in an international setting, most of the jokes were at others expense, including loads of prejudices against gays. In an article about humor in the French publication Libération, Swedish humor was characterized as “in the politically correct Sweden, it is more accepted to laugh at yourself than at others, even if everyone realizes that you are actually laughing at others”. Go figure.