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Jacques Lefranc, editor-in-chief of France Soir, got fired yesterday as a result of the publication of the infamous caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed. The owners of France Soir said in a statement that Lefranc was removed from his position “as a strong sign of respect for the convictions of the individual”.

Swedish Television SVT will start vodcasting on Monday, or pod-tv as they prefer to call it. The following shows will be available as free downloads via RSS:

– Rapport
– Gomorron Sverige
– Smålandsnytt
– Agenda
– Nyhetstecken
– Toppkandidaterna
– Filmkrönikan
– Öppet Arkiv

Pod-tv (vlog, video podcast, vodcast, videocast are other similar terms) is simply video content made available via RSS. But it is not the first vodcast in Sweden, as they claim. Rektorsakademien also has a pod-tv show available.

Via David Hall. Technorati tags: vlog, vodcast, rss, video blog television.

The French publication France Soir today published the controversial caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed, previously published by Jyllands-Posten. Dagens Nyheter writes that the purpose is to “initiate a discussion about the strong reactions around the world, caused by the publication in Denmark”. As if there was a need for more fuel to this controversy.

Aggeman is spot on today when he critizes Expressen-blogger Linda Skugge, who is ranting about the fact that an anonymous blog with 130,000 page visits is called a success, while her own blog has more (145,000) per month.

“Han har haft 130 000 sidvisningar sen aug och det kallas succé. Jag har haft mellan 1-2 miljoooooner träffar sen aug. Och sen maj när jag började måste det bli det dubbla. Jag lovar att Hemliga pappan kommer sälja massor. Det känns som om jag hjälper fram en massa människor som sen säljer multum. Men ingen hjälper nånsin fram mig.”

Crikey, Skugge’s blog is part of Expressen.se, one of the most visited web sites in Sweden. “Nobody ever helps me” she writes. Well, Expressen.se has about 12 million visits per month so if only about one per cent reads Skugge’s blog, I’d say it’s a huge failure. Why all this envy? Skugge is one of a handful Swedish bloggers who get paid to blog, that’s not enough help?

In September 2005 the Swedish government formed a parliamentary committee to do a review of integration politics in Sweden. Now the committee has started a blog about its task and the blog will be active until 1 June, 2007.

What is quite interesting is that the blog is hosted on Blogspot. That’s probably ok, but not the most obvious choice. I wouldn’t expect an American committee to host its blog on a Swedish server.

The blog also uses Sitemeter for site statistics. Kind of fun to see the adverts for Spongebob Squarepants screen savers on the stat page of a parliamentary committee.

Forget about global warming, famine and poverty. Today is Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day. That’s right, your chance to pay tribute to air trapped in plastic is back by ‘pop’ular demand. How good it is to be in PR. (Thanks Tess.)