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.
Tag: blogs
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
SVT’s guide to the blogosphere
SVT, Swedish public service television, today launched a blog initiative called Bloggat (“Blogged”), where bloggers are invited to debate about political topics. The articles are published at svt.se/opinion in a “chain letter” format. Dick Erixon will today start with an article about national identity and on Friday, Maryam Yazdanfar, president of SSU (youth organisation of the Social Democratic Party) will reply.
The purpose of the initiative is that Bloggat shall be a guide to the blogosphere and not a traditional blog, according to an article in Resumé.
– Blogs are a part of the public debate and it is only natural for us at SVT Opinion to cover this area. And we believe that it will drive traffic to the SVT website, Jessica Lindroth, editor of svt.se/opinion tells Resumé.
Visitors to the website are able to discuss and comment in an online forum. Another feature that would have been nice to see is some sort of trackback feature so that visitors could see what other bloggers say about the articles, pretty much like the way Washington Post collaborates with Technorati. That way SVT would be able to show a deeper version of the blogosphere than just the A-listers who get invited. It is the long tail of the blogosphere that makes it really interesting.
The Swedish Union of Journalists blogs from Ukraine
The Swedish Union of Journalists (SJF) today started a blog about a project in Ukraine. SJF is helping journalists to establish and manage unions in Ukraine. The first post was published just an hour and a half ago.
My Technorati cosmos doubled in a day
A few days ago Technorati suddenly said that the number of links to my blog are about 354, up from about 177 in no-time. Naturally I began to wonder why this figure is double the amount from the day before? It seems that Technorati has been doing some changes to the way they count incoming links and now displays links from blogs over the last six months. I’m unsure if this is the reason though.
Technorati tag: Technorati.
Spray launches blog service
I noticed today that Spray just launched a beta version of a new and free blog service. By the looks of it, it seems to be working, although there still are some major bugs, like when you click on a post on Spray’s site, it shows the wrong blog URL.