On The McCanns' debate: Greenslade: "I'm unsure what will emerge from a debate tonight about the media coverage of Madeleine McCann's disappearance. But, given the cast list on a rather crowded panel, it does promise to offer heat, if not light." Greenslade on
Food and Drink
You might even call it an adventurous food weekend. Challenging is another word that springs to mind, it certainly wasn't boring. On Friday, I attended a birthday bash for a friend of mine, and was served this for dinner. Hence, I felt a bit queasy on Saturday, the
Food and Drink
For the benefit of squeamish readers I've posted a smaller picture, click on it if you want a bigger version. What do you do if say, you're a foreign businessman who happen find yourself invited out to dinner by your Norwegian business contacts in Bergen in
Blogging
Okay, I made what I guess you could call a Freudian slip when I started this post, I wrote an a rather than an o: blagging. Now that's a way to look at blogging, the former is certainly a long treasured skill for journalists. But the point I
Blogging
For the Swedish Tax authority, that is. Apparently they will enlighten us as to exactly how bloggers and SMS loans pose a new risk when they present the first year results from an e-commerce project today. They will also present their findings from 'control areas' such as pornography,
Media
Talking about strange bedfellows, this article (in Norwegian) deals with the many and intricate liaisons among the country's online newspapers aimed at driving online traffic (even if you can't make head or tail of the language, try replacing the big names in the map with the
Headlines 2007
....the unlikely bedfellows you get when online traffic is the new mammon, and national media organisations want to be your new (hyper)local news provider. Ideology no obstacle This brave new media world of ours creates the strangest bedfellows, a recent example being the sales negotiations between Mecom's
Headlines 2007
Last year the talk of Norway's online media town centred on consolidation, Web TV and hyperlocal coverage, all issues likely to be on the agenda in 2008 as well. Other issues we might be discussing more are citizen journalism, the quality aspect and the social web: The strange
Headlines 2007
While writing this post on online journalism in Norway for Paul Bradshaw's Online Journalism Atlas, it occurred to me that everything is in such a flux at the moment, that if I were to write about the current trends in Norway's online journalism, everything might have
Media
Talking of the mood in Davos, I bet the mood has been pretty grim in many media boardrooms these last few weeks as well. Of course, since media shares are cyclical and vulnerable to the minute mood swings in the advertisement market, the executives should perhaps expect their companies'
Current Affairs
With the recent market gloom, it's no surprise to hear that the mood in Davos was a bit sombre this year. But no, Adrian, I can't imagine that the modesty of Davos is a coincidence, after all it's Switzerland: remember Calvin? I hear his
Media
Dutch journalists threatened industrial action after 78 job-cost, of which 15 were editorial, were announced in the Dutch part of Mecom this week. The redundancies in Media Groep Limburg (MGL) came due to "synergy effects" with the Mecom's other recent acquisition in Holland, Dutch newspaper group,