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Are you for or against?

Via Erik.

The odd phrase “Du Bist Deutschland” has for some mysterious reason been a top search on Technorati for some time. It turns out that it is a slogan from a German PR campaign with the intent to “tell everyone in Germany that you can achieve something, that you shouldn’t complain and be lazy”. The campaign has set the German blogsphere on fire when someone found an old photo from a 1935 public Nazi convention using the same phrase.

It didn’t get any better when the head of the agency that created the campaign spilled his guts over bloggers in an email. He was quoted saying:

“Weblogs, the bathroom walls of the internet. What gives every PC user the right to exude [or excrete] their opinions? Most bloggers simply exude.”

Way to go, sucking up to a bunch of annoyed bloggers. Nicht.

Dagens Industri’s magazine Diego has had a blog since October and have now revealed some stats for January 1-23.

– 30,000 unique visitors
– 78,000 page visits
– 43,000 visitors
– an average of 1,813 visits per day during 2006

The numbers are quite good, but Diego is still way behind top blogs like Adland which is reported to have about 30,000 visitors per day. And site visits are not the only measure of a blog’s success, for example, Diego has 4 subscribers to its feed in Bloglines, I am closing in on 200 (Atom + Feedburner feeds), and since I publish the full post in my feeds, one could guess that I have many readers who never enter my site.

As I mentioned earlier, several leading footballers are blogging on MSN’s “Road to the World Cup” page. Via itsmorelikejustadance I notice that the world’s greatest player, Ronaldinho, also is blogging. His first post was published on Tuesday this week.

Funny though that there is a link to Real Madrid’s web page in the sidebar, and not to Barca.

Technorati tags: Worldcup, World Cup, football, Ronaldinho.

Oh, the sweet irony. The delegation of Danish SAS pilots on an unlawful strike were delayed to a negotiation meeting with SAS in Stockholm because (drums please) the flights had been cancelled due to their own strike! They had to wait for a flight with Swedish non-striking pilots and arrived in Stockholm two hours late. (Via DN, not online).

Swedish newspapers that are distributed electronically may be eligible for press subsidies according to a final report that has been presented to the Minister for Education, Research and Culture, Leif Pagrotsky.