Media Culpa

Peter Davidson has found a photo of a business that supposedly painted a huge logo on the roof with the purpose of being seen on satellite photos on Google Maps.

Via Much Ado About Marketing and MIT Advertising Lab.

Very little has been written about the Jyllands-Posten debacle in Danish journalism publication Journalisten due to press deadlines, but editor Jakob Elkjær promises full coverage in the next issue, due out on 15 March.

Carsten Juste, editor-in-chief at Jyllands-Posten, might be a diplomat in disguise. Yes, he is currently making new friends all over the world. In an interview in today’s Dagens Nyheter he inadvertently puts the finger on what this whole issue is about – the right for ignorant pricks to speak their minds.

DN: What have you learned from the Muhammad-affair?

– I have learned to appreciate humor more and the Danish character. Humor is in short supply in the world, especially with you [Swedes]. In regards of humor, there are ten Danes on one Swede.

That’s the spirit. Any more nations or religions you would like to insult, while you’re at it? It is so much easier to laugh at others, and maybe that is why Juste feels Danes have more humor. The last time I had the privilege of being entertained by a Danish journalist, in an international setting, most of the jokes were at others expense, including loads of prejudices against gays. In an article about humor in the French publication Libération, Swedish humor was characterized as “in the politically correct Sweden, it is more accepted to laugh at yourself than at others, even if everyone realizes that you are actually laughing at others”. Go figure.

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.