Dagens Nyheter has launched a blog about the Olympic Games in Turin, but just as with DN’s other blogs, this one has no comments, no permalinks and no RSS feed. Why bother calling it a blog?
Swedish curling team is blogging the Olympics
Update: I didn’t read this properly. They will not be posting on the blog themselves during the Olympics.
A follow up to my previous post about athletes being banned from blogging during the Olympics. The Swedish women’s curling team, Team Anette Norberg, is currently blogging and promises to be blogging during the Olympics, reports Nacka Värmdö Posten. It seems that someone in the Swedish Olympic Committee should investigate what exactly is forbidden by the IOC, and what is not, or the Swedish curling team might be up for an unpleasant surprise.
BMW gets “Google death penalty”
BMW.de gets thrown out from Google.
“Google confirmed today that it has applied its own version of a “death penalty” to BMW’s German website, after the carmaker apparently attempted to boost its popularity ranking artificially on the internet search engine.”
Ricoh.de will face the same destiny. More here and here.
Source: Times Online. Tags: BMW, Google.
Freedom of speech on hold during the Olympics
In the light of the current debate about freedom of speech, what do you think about this? No athletes or coaches may work as journalists during the Olympic Games in Turin 2006, according to rules set up by the IOC. Those who do, run the risk of being disqualified and even losing their medals. The IOC wants to protect athletes from media coverage inside the Olympic village in Turin.
The rule also applies to web pages and blogs and for example the Japanese Olympic Committee is telling athletes competing at Olympic Games not to open blogs. Discussions are currently taking place as to “whether athletes can update their blog after the Olympics”. Frightening.
The rule was introduced already to the 2004 summer games.
Source: Journalisten. Tags: torino, turin, Olympics.
A conversation about media
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.
DagensPS “borrows” article from Computer Sweden
SBAB:s corporate blog is a success, reports Urban Lindstedt in Computer Sweden. A few hours later, DagensPS publishes the same story, without any reference to the source. Pure cut and paste journalism. See for yourself.
Technorati tag: plagiarism.