Tag: blogs

Dagens Media closes blog – info still available via RSS

After the article by and about Niclas Rislund in today’s Dagens Media, the paper’s blog Köksveckan mysteriously has been closed. Two blog posts about the Rislund kerfuffle can no longer be accessed (although Researcher has the screen dumps). If the blog has been closed “for renovation” because several journalists on the photo have left the paper, the timing couldn’t have been worse. And if it is an attempt to delete the comments made by the reporters, they haven’t done a very good job. The articles can be read in Dagens Media’s RSS feed and you can still click on the link at the bottom of each post that says “comments” and it’s all available here:

First and second article.

UPDATE: The blog is up and running again. According to a comment on Researcher it was down for technical reasons, something the paper could have been much better at communicating in order to avoid conspiracy theories like my own.

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Carl Bildt’s blog a success

In my latest Swedish blog survey (pdf), the favourite type of blog among male readers was blogs about politics and society (69.9% like to read about this topic). So it is not surpising that Carl Bildt, Sweden’s Foreign Minister, has had a lot of visitors to his blog. During the last two weeks he claims to have had 100,000 visitors , a number few other Swedish blogs can match, if any.

And speaking of politicians who blog, this comparison between the websites of Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Hillary Clinton is quite interesting. Obama’s site is the only one that is equipped with connections to Facebook, Flickr and YouTube. Something for Bildt to consider?

Permalinks problem fixed

The conversion to new Blogger has caused me a lot of problems. As you may have read in my last post, the permalinks stopped working, so for example clicking on an item in the RSS feed didn’t work. That problem has now been fixed. Archives are no longer put in a separate folder so all permanent links on this blog have been stripped off the /arkiv/ part. Compare:

Old URL:

http://www.kullin.net/arkiv/2007_02_01_mc.html#654503616037586102

New URL:

http://www.kullin.net/2007_02_01_mc.html#654503616037586102

It seems that the old links are still working which would mean that I won’t lose any Page Rank after all. What a relief. And if you find some bugs please let me know.

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Swedish dailies track [some] blog links

Sweden’s leading daily newspapers Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet have started to include links to blogs who comment on articles on the papers’ websites, Washington Post-style. Blog posts are tracked via a tool called Twingly and a list of the most blogged articles at DN can be found here. Example at SvD here. Twingly was just recently launched and has currently indexed about 2.8 million blog posts, which of course is a small number compared to the 1.6 million blog posts that the blogosphere spits out daily. The accuracy will of course improve over time as more and more blogs are tracked by Twingly.

Currently, the Swedish blog portal Knuff is far better att tracking blog links than both Twingly and Technorati. Here is a comparison between the three services and how they track the five top blogged articles at Dagens Nyheter.

Blogs posts tracked
Article Twingly Technorati Knuff
#1 24 19 26
#2 1 10 23
#3 2 2 18
#4 0 6 13
#5 2 4 10

UPDATE: The comparison above is a bit unfair, as Martin from Primelabs explains in the comments to this post. Apparently DN does not show all the incoming links that Twingly has in its database. In the Help section on the site, DN writes that you can find “a list of all blogs that link to an article on DN.se”. For some reason DN chooses to list only a selection of links. If this process turns out to filter out negative articles, then I expect an uproar in the blogosphere when bloggers find out they are being “censored”. Should DN continue to leave out a large part of the conversation they will most certainly open up for criticism.

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The world’s oldest blogger has been dethroned

“It’s a man’s man’s man’s world”, sang James Brown back in 1966, but when we look at the online world it is increasingly becoming a woman’s world. In the US as much as 64 percent of online gamers are women, according to research by Nielsen Entertainment. In my own surveys (pdf) of the Swedish blogosphere I noticed that female bloggers are now in majority (albeit with a very slim margin) in Sweden and a recenty study of social networks (pdf) by Pew Internet revealed that among online teens, 58% of the girls had created profiles online, but only 51% of the boys. In the age group 15-17 the difference was even greater (70% to 57%).

With that in mind maybe it is just fair that Allan Lööf, who was previously the world’s oldest blogger, has now been dethroned by a woman, 95-year old Maria Arelia from Spain. According to an article in Sweden’s Aftonbladet, she got her blog as a gift from her grand children on her 95th birthday. Maria Arelia was born on Dec 23, 1911 and she writes on her blog that she has already been interviewed by radio and tv. [Hat tip to BetaAlfa 2.0]

Maybe we should settle this competition once and for all by giving a blog to Emiliano Mercado del Toro from Puerto Rico, currently the world’s oldest living person (born August 21, 1891).

UPDATE: Sadly, Mr. del Toro has now passed away.

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