I was going to post a comment to a column (not online, how typical) in yesterday’s Resumé where Janne Sundling thinks the blog is dead because Per Svensson at Expressen ditched his blog. But Fredrik Wackå says it all so I have nothing to add. Henrik Torstensson and Jonas Morian also comment (all in Swedish).
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A suggestion for Bloglines
Once in a while a blogger or a company changes the URL for an RSS feed and often they lose a significant number of subscribers by doing that. I think Bloglines (my RSS reader) should make this process easier by letting users change URLs in their subscriptions. Today, the feed URL is the only thing users can’t change when they edit a subscription. Instead you have to unsubscribe to the old feed and then add the new feed as a different subscription.
Media Culpa goes west
I will be speaking about blogs at a breakfast meeting in Oslo on 19 October called “Blogging – when the audience takes the stage“. The Norwegian newsletter Mandag Morgen (“Monday Morning”) has invited me to speak along with its editor Olav Anders Øvrebø who also runs the Undercurrent blog.
Dagens Industri launches blog
Sweden’s leading business daily Dagens Industri will launch a new business magazine called Diego, with a first issue due in November. But as of yesterday, Diego is already equipped with a blog at www.diego.se. Worth noting is that the blog has both comments, RSS and trackbacks. The latter is previously unheard of among Swedish media blogs [Edit: Sydsvenskan’s blog has trackbacks].
Another unusual feature is that all URLs (for comments, RSS, trackbacks etc) are under the domain www.jefferyedling.se, which belongs to the communications agency that produced the blog. This is probably not wise. Any business that launches a venture like this would be much better off owning all the feeds under its own domain. What if the blog is a success with hundreds or thousands of subscribers, and then they find out they don’t want to use the agency anymore, or the agency goes bust. Then Dagens Industri will be forced to change URLs and lose much of its subscribers in the process.
Apart from that little remark, the initiative looks very promising.
Via Jeffery och Edling.
Update: The feeds have now been changed to a new domain. Example, RSS: http://www.diegofeed.se/?feed=rss2
Local dailies bring in citizen voices in reporting
SR Västmanland reports that local dailies in the Ingress Media group – Bärgslagsbladet/Arboga tidning, Sala Allehanda, Fagerstaposten and Avesta Tidning – will start to bring in more material from their readers.
Göran Lundberg, Managing Director at Ingress Media says:
“To be able to keep up with the evolution the paper should open up to more story tellers.”