Don’t ask…
Via B.L. Ochman.
Update: Although fun, this is not only old, but also completely fake. See the original photo here.
The Vodafone brand may disappear from the Swedish market
Norwegian telecom giant Telenor acquires Vodafone’s Swedish operations for 1.035 billion euros. Pål Kvalheim, Director of Communications at Telenor tells Dagens Media:
“Our goal is to transfer to the Telenor brand in Sweden.”
As long as you behave, you don’t have to worry
Undercurrent has some privacy concerns about Norwegian media conglomerate Schibstedt’s new search engine Sesam.
“…searching for a person’s name at Sesam will return not only web pages, but also address, phone number, overview over the person’s board memberships (!), photos of the person and articles about him or her in Norwegian newspapers the last 20 years.”
Related: Nicklas Lundblad writes in Smedjan about how ordinary printers are spying on us (in Swedish).
Credit where credit’s due
Gunilla Kinn has some interesting comments on the I’m-just-borrowing-a-few-sentences culture in Swedish journalism.
Another example where established media does not credit the correct source: N24 and the original at Susning.nu/stekare. Instead they make up a fake name: Claës von Braten, who does not seem to exist. Braten means “stekare” (roast) in German. (Hat tip to anonymous commentators in the article on N24).
She links in mysterious ways
I’m puzzled by Technorati. My blog has recieved about 20 new incoming links in the last 6 days, of at least 8 or 9 are from blogs that have never linked to me before. But I have been stuck at incoming links from 128 sites for more than a week. It doesn’t seem like Technorati is updating this number as often as they update the actual links. Am I wrong?
Olle Svalander is “Mats Hård”
The author behind the popular football blog “thefinartoflosing“, that also has become a book, reveals his real identity. The pseudonym “Mats Hård” has been a mystery to the entire Swedish blogosphere until now. Svensk Bokhandel has the scoop.
Via Kulturbloggen.