Two Swedish Eyes on Media and Public Relations
On February 15, 2006 I discovered that the photo sharing site Flickr had reached 100 million hosted photos. Today at 11.18 PM CET, only seven months later, Flickr passed the quarter billion mark – 250 million photos.
Unfortunately the photo number 250,000,000 is private. I was very close in getting the selected number, only seven photos away.
Tags: Flickr, photo, bloggar, bloggosfären. Ping.
This one almost escaped me. Aftonbladet today has a two-page article about my blog survey that indicates that women are now in majority among Swedish bloggers.
Tags: surveys, blogs, bloggar, bloggosfären. Ping.
Regarding this post, I have to ask what on earth “compuntoe” is? It is currently the second most popular search term at Technorati, but the word doesn’t seem to exist at all. Technorati shows only one blog post that is not referring to the Technorati stats, and a Google search turns up zero results so it is hard to believe that this word is the second most used search term at Technorati.
“Compuntoes” on the other hand gives us 44,000 Google hits.
Update: Thanks to the commenters we now know that this is part of an SEO challenge that will finish on 1st of February. “Compuntoes” is com dot es in Spanish. More info in Spanish here. This does not, however, explain why there are so many searches at Technorati for “compuntoe” and not “compuntoes”.
Tags: Technorati, compuntoe, compuntoes, seo, bloggar. Ping.
It is always interesting to analyze your blog to see how well it performs and what areas you can improve. I stumbled on this tool that measures a site’s Page Strength, based on a number of parameters. Apparently I’m doing something right because Media Culpa gets 5.5 out of 10 with this comment:
“Your site is having an impact and may even be a leader in your field (depending on how big or small that field is). Keep on this path; it’s clear that the effort you’ve put in is producing results.”
Other popular blogs’ results:
– Adland: 5.5
– Media Orchard: 5
– Mymarkup: 5
Worth noting that each of these four examples are all #1 in Google for the first four words of title tag on target URL, so choosing a unique name for you blog pays off.
The Thai goverment is currently facing a military coup in Bangkok and tanks have moved into position round the Government House. It is hard to decide the level of seriousness from the media reports so far. But already there are photos up at Flickr from tonight’s events in Thailand, for example this photo set called “coup in Thailand” and this series of photos tagged “coup”.
People are quickly turning to untraditional sources for information. Already, “Thailand” is the fifth most popular blog search at Technorati (after Compuntoe, Lindsay Lohan, Teacher and the Pope).
As reported yesterday, a number of press people will have to leave their jobs in the Swedish government as a result of Sunday’s election. On the other hand, industry experts estimate that there is a need for 200 political secretaries, press contacts and other posts with people primarily to be rectuited from media and public relations.
Tags: PR, Swedish election, val2006, PR. Ping.