Social Democrat behind email campaign analyzed latest election

Fredrik Reinfeldt, the leader of the Swedish Moderate party, has been the target of a dirty email campaign containing false accusations. The person behind the emails turned out to be a senior employee in the Social Democratic Party and one of Prime Minister Göran Persson’s closest men. According to media reports he was responsible for analyzing opinion polls.

But he did more than that. He was one of eight people in a committee that analyzed (pdf) the latest election – the 2004 election to the EU Parliament. The group came up with suggestions for future elections based on the analysis. He was in other words a central figure in the party’s campaign strategy planning.

“Valresultatet i EU-parlamentsvalet den 13 juni 2004 blev mycket sämre än vad vi hade förväntat oss och långt under de mål vi ställt upp, både när det gäller valdeltagandet och vårt eget resultat. Det låga valdeltagandet är något vi delar med många länder runt om i unionen, det är också fler partier i vårt land som har anledning att fundera över resultatet.

Men trots det finns det skäl för oss socialdemokrater att göra en egen noggrann analys av valresultatet. Inte minst för att systematisera våra erfarenheter, både organisatoriska och politiska, till nästa riksdagsval 2006.

Open letter to Bosse Andersson, Expressen

Dear Bosse,

Your competitor Aftonbladet yesterday acquired the blog portal Bloggportalen.se for an undisclosed sum. This is great news for Expressen. Among all the Swedish blog portals, Sigge Eklund’s Bloggportalen is probably the last one I would have invested in, had I been in your shoes (sorry Sigge, I’m a regular reader of your blog though). It is a register of 3,500 blogs with little functionality other than presenting a number of blogs in different categories. As the blogosphere evolves, many blogs on the site will become inactive and the time spent on putting in new ones will be overwhelming. Of course, Aftonbladet will probably develop some way of updating the register automatically (note: beware of spam blogs). A library of blogs is just not that interesting, and here’s why – the blogosphere isn’t really about blogs, it is about the content in blogs. And Bloggportalen is not about blog content.

A central feature of the blogosphere is connectivity and the core of that connectivity is the “ping”. Johan who runs a number of brilliant blog portals has done something extremely smart. He has created a site (Nyligen.se) that most Swedish bloggers ping when they have a new blog post. He has another called Intressant.se that sorts content into different categories. From this information he has been able to build other cool sites like Knuff.se which analyzes and sorts the information on Swedish blogs, letting readers follow how different topics or articles gets discussed in the blogosphere. It’s a bit of Technorati mixed with PubSub, all RSS enabled of course.

Now, Bosse, you start to get my point. Expressen should buy Nyligen, Intressant and Knuff and hire Johan Larsson for an embarrassingly high salary. Around these different portals I’m sure Expressen could build some really nice features that Aftonbladet would envy.

Best regards,

Hans

Footnote: Bosse Andersson is Head of Expressen.se

Update: Podradio and Urban Lindstedt comment too.

Aftonbladet co-operates with blog portal

Aftonbladet today launched an initiative where all the input from readers will be collected in one main page, Läsarbladet (“Readers’ paper”). Aftonbladet also launched a co-operation with [Edited] one of the larger Swedish blog portals Bloggportalen.se that contains links to and presentations of 3,500 Swedish blogs.

Kalle Jungkvist, editor-in-chief of aftonbladet.se uses the D-word, not very common in Swedish media – dialogue.

– […]previously journalists have been a megaphone to the public. I believe that in the future journalism will shift towards more of a dialogue with readers.

On Läsarbladet readers will be able to discuss and influence the content by writing articles, vote and participate. Readers will get to vote on what stories a Readers’ Reporter will write.

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Media in cat fight over mailing list

Update 3: Journalist Mustafa Can published an article this morning in Dagens Nyheter about an exclusive mailing list called “Elit” (Elite). A number of journalists are members of the list and one DN journalist has been suspended for having revealed the upcoming article for the list members, although she says it is not true.

Here is the original article (all articles below in Swedish).
Übermobbning på nätet

Interesting to see that DN also points to Knuff.se for blogs that comment on the topic.
http://knuff.se/q/elit/

Aftonbladet:
New 23 Feb: 93 kändisar på hemliga mejllistan
Kändisarnas hemliga skvallermejl avslöjade
Fanns på lista – fick sparken från DN

Dagen:
New 23 Feb: I marginalen

Dagens Media:
Neos chefredaktör om Söderqvists angrepp på Hanne Kjöller på Elit

Dagens Nyheter:
New 23 Feb: Elitlistan korrumperar
New 23 Feb: De virtuella frimurarna
New: “Skilj på offentligt och privat”
DN-skribent avstängd efter listkommentar
“Deltagande handlar om att känna sig utvald”
Mejlstorm efter DN:s artikel
SvD-journalist kritiserar DN

Expressen:
New 23 Feb: Min elit
New 23 Feb: Cecilia Hagen: Får jag vara med och mobba?
Mustafa Can tvångs-rekryterad till listan
Mustafa Can hotad efter avslöjandet
Kändisklubb avslöjar stjärnornas sexliv
Martin Timell: “Det är kriminellt”
“Vad är det för olämpligt att vara med i ett samtal”
Reporter fick sparken av DN:s kulturchef
Stig-Björn Ljunggren: “Det är som en middagsbjudning”
Utdrag ur mejllistan
Vi i “hemliga klubben” gör rätt som skrattar åt DN

Journalisten:
Flera journalister på Bards lista

Metro:
New 23 Feb: Bards Elitlista har utlöst moralpanik

Resumé:
Jan Wifstrand: “Ovanligt med granskning av mediefolket”
DN sparkar Elitmedlem
DN:s Mustafa Can hotad i natt
Bard tvångsrekryterar Wifstrand
PO om Elit: “Fruktansvärt pinsamt”
Dagens Medias krönikör medlem i Elit
DN:s kulturchef: “Alexander Bard är en sektmästare”
Men hallå…

Svenska Dagbladet:
New 23 Feb: Skvaller i mejl vållar debatt
New: Punschskvaller i frimurarlogen

Östersunds-Posten:
New 23 Feb: Nätverket i den unkna källarvåningen

Svenska Dagbladet falls off Observer’s blog list

Suburbia lists the blogs on Swedish media monitoring company Observer’s revised list (pdf) of blogs they track. There are some surprises on the list: PR agency JKL, PJ Anders Linder of Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet and Sven Otto Littorin of the Moderate Party are all taken off the list. To be included a blog is supposed to be able to influence traditional media and/or public opinion. Media Culpa is still on the list though.