Sören Sehlberg, head of information at MHF (Swedish Abstaining Motorists’ Association) tonight won the award for lobbyist of the year for his work with implementation of alcolocks in cars.
Business site plagiarised fashion blog
N24.se, a collaboration between daily Svenska Dagbladet and tabloid Aftonbladet, plagiarised an article by the fashion blog Manolo.se, the blog recently acquired by local daily Sydsvenskan.
The article had entire paragraphs that were copied from the blog article. A comment to the original article brought the issue to Manolo’s attention and after some contacts the article on N24.se was taken off the website.
Dagens Media has more info (in Swedish) and some screen shots.
Creative kiwis
Warning: toilet humour. A new hotel in Queenstown, New Zealand has “life sized images of girls peering in to the urinals” on the wall in the men’s room. Very creative and funny.
“It’s the most popular room in the five star hotel”, writes a local news site.
Dreaming of Gwyneth
Coldplay gets great reviews for their concert on Monday.
Sundsvalls Tidning: 5/5
Aftonbladet: 4/5
Göteborgs-Posten: 4/5
Stockholm City: 4/5
Upsala Nya Tidning: 4/5
Svenska Dagbladet: 4/6
VLT are not quite as happy. And finally some sour grapes from Dagens Nyheter’s Po Tidholm who is busy dreaming of Gwyneth.
Update: GP, DN (in a second article not online) and SvD all quote former Oasis manager Alan McGee who called the band’s fans “bed-wetters”, a lazy metaphor for describing how provocative it is for a rock band to be nice guys.
Hate speech trial live on Swedish tv
The trial against Pentecostal pastor Åke Green will be broadcasted live by Swedish television SVT. This is the first time SVT is broadcasting from the Supreme Court, but no images will be shown, only audio.
Green was sentenced in the district court to one month in prison for hate speech against homosexuals. The sentence has been widely covered in international press.
Passion magazine delayed
The new monthly “gadget” magazine Passion from E+T Förlag has been delayed one month. It was originally planned to be launched the last week of October, but since E&T; publishing house recently was sold to Finnish company Talentum, the magazine will have its first issue out later in November.
Passion will be distributed along with business weekly Affärsvärlden and tech pub Ny Teknik and will have a circulation of 160 000 copies.