Blogging
Cory Doctorow has 17 excellent tips in Information Week (via Bloggers Blog) on how to get bloggers to write about you – which could be just as useful for news sites. Now, let me first take a moment to say that I've never understood journalists and editors complaining about
Acquisitions
Without doubt my favourite headline last week, but the story behind it was probably not a big hit in the headquarters of Fast Search and Transfer who was served a hefty fine of roughly £100,000 (NOK 1.110.220 kroner) for not informing Oslo Stock Exchange (OSE) about Microsoft&
Personal
Hmm... no time to blog the things I'd like to blog so far today, but couldn't resist this rather silly little personality test I found over at Diary of a wordsmith: You Are a Question Mark You seek knowledge and insight in every form possible. You
Blogging
"So, just how many DINKY unique visitors with a penchant for expensive jewlery do we get by employing you to blog for us?" If this post on how "Personality pays in the pay-per-click economy of blogging" is anything to go by, this sort of sentiment may
Blogging
A blog gives you a chance to build your own identity, which is miles better than brand. It allows for a mix of trivial, serious, thoughtful and sometimes stupid.. just like the human being behind it. That is the authenticity that companies would like to infuse their brands with. Alas,
Freesheets
Or why the economic woes of "the Nordic hedge fun masquerading as a country" may not have ended Baugur's newspaper adventure. A week ago, the executives of Nyhedsavisen, the Danish freesheet launched by Baugur-controlled Dagsbrun in 2006, rushed to denounce headlines that the Icelandic group had
Blogging
Blogging could be the best thing that's ever happened to journalists, if we can only get our heads around it. I apologise. If you're new to this blog and didn't check the first link of my last post, I might have misled you: I&
Blogging
Should journalists blog? I'm sure I've covered this before (well, actually I have) but a recent interview about teaching blogging to journalists spurred an interesting response from an editor who hated the idea but happened to be a pretty decent blogger himself, so here we go
Blogging
After eight months at stureplan.se, blogger Karin Schulman made it known she was keen to take her blog, called "Fuck you right back", somewhere else. Dagens Media asked her how much they'd have to pay for her: "I only work on commission. 4 pence
Media
A former advertising man has chosen a spectacular way to encourage Danish journalists to focus on good news. He has gone to the drastic step of mortgaging his flat in order to pay for a supplement in this week's Journalisten, the trade journal for Danish journalists, where he
Web/Tech
My internet connection is sending me headlong into a major depression here. And, you know, I find it very hard to blog when I'm in a bad mood: I'm definintly a good mood blogger. My internet connection is so painfully slow and erratic that I have
Journalism
Was this the first time Norwegian mainstream media used Twitter to cover a conference? I think it might have been, but happy to be corrected if it's not. In either case, Anders Brenna has some interesting thoughts on the experience. Among other things, he says: "Twitter is