It's been almost impossible to read a paper or news site in Norway without coming across a story about Facebook these last few weeks, so here's a quick look at the key headlines of this recent media obsession: Propaganda reports that Norway is the European country
Blogging
Spent today trying to figure out what I did with my money last year so I could hand in my accounts for 2006. Swallowed the bitter pill and decided to cut my losses with a client who's defaulted on his payment promises, almost bankrupting me in the process,
Blogging
Hans Kullin has generously blogged his notes from a debate on 'citizen journalism – threat or opportunity', hosted by the Swedish journalist union, and once again one of those issues where parts of the Swedish press is seriously confused raised its ugly (or ridiculous) head: the controversy over Sweden&
Media
Food for thought... Californian newspaper outsources covering city hall - to India! (via Editor&Publisher) Newspapers use open-source software to engage readers online (via www.journalism.co.uk) A growing number of newspapers are turning to open-source software Drupal, in the race to build engaging news websites. Craig Newmark:
Citizen journalism
There's a lot of media buzz around citizen journalism these days : some see it as cheap or free labour lowering the standards of journalism, others as a vital tool to reengage a disengaged audience – leveling the playing field in the process. In her White paper for the Freedom
Blogging
I'm frequently exasperated by the all too common misunderstandings about the nature of blogs, eagerly restated by columnists and editors at regular intervals, like here and here, and recently given an alibi by Andrew Keen's forthcoming book on bloggers as parasites and what have you (sometimes
Acquisitions
The buzz around today's announcement of Mecom's takeover plans for Dutch regional newspaper group Wegener started ticking into my newsreader this morning via Dutch twitters, blogs and newspapers. Monty continues his march across Europe, wrote Charles Pretzlik in his FT business blog around noon. It'
Citizen journalism
"It's no longer news to anyone that the Internet makes everyone a publisher. But does mainstream media fully understand the implications, and that alternative sources are becoming the news provider of choice -- especially when there is no choice?" asks Steve Klein on Poynter Online. He
Blogging
A follow-up post from Mike Rouse on my post about UK bloggers vs broadcasters: As one of those trawling the blogs I can assure you that we were indeed ahead because of the priceless information posted on blogs very quickly. Some bloggers had contacts within counts, others posted from mobile
Blogging
Who said readers aren't willing to pay for good online content? Early this month Swedish blogger Dick Erixon asked his readers to contribute money to his time-consuming blogging efforts. He said he'd close down his blog if he didn't raise 100,000 SEK (about
Blogging
Or did they? At least Iain Dale claims trawling blogs helped 18 Doughty Street web-Tv beat the two broadcasting giants by about half an hour to announcing the results of this week's UK elections. It's a wonderful illustration of our (ever-) changing media landscape. I vividly
Blogging
A recent 'seminar' on blogging by media intelligence company Cision left me somewhat baffled. The talks, by Richard Gatarski and Alexander Mason, were inspiring enough, but Cision used the seminar to launch its plans to offer new, and no doubt expensive, blogmonitoring for its clients. This didn'