Acquisitions
If the year behind us is anything to go by, the Scandinavian media market will be an interesting one to watch also in the year to come. 2006 was so packed with media wars, controversies, upheaval and startling revelations that it almost beggared belief. On a serious note, it was
Media
If only local newspapers had more such readers, what wouldn't it do for dwindling advertisement revenues: "A businessman in the western town of Borås has forked out 11,500 kronor (£858) on a very large newspaper advertisement in his quest for a mate," writes The Local
Blogging
At least in the blogosphere anno 2007. Bloggers Blog has compared the Technorati top ten on 1 January 2006 with the top ten one year later: at the start of 2007 tech blogs dominate the list, and conservative big hitters like Michelle Malkin and Instapundit have dropped out of the
Media
It turns out J.Y. Smith, whose byline appears on Washington Post's Gerald Ford obituary, is himself long dead (via Mediabistro). Another reminder of how pretty much every public figure above a certain age have obituaries waiting for them, reflects Wonkette.
Blogging
Over at Media Culpa, Hans Kullin has gazed into the crystal ball and come up with a few irreverent predictions for the media year ahead, both for Scandinavia and the world at large, including this thought-provoking vision: Mainstream media are pushing the citizen journalism trend so far that reporters are
Pictures
Wouldn't it be nice of Christmas was a time of wonder, peace and contemplation; a time to think through the events of the year gone by and prepare for the new adventures of the year ahead? Not realistic? Still rushing around doing all the last minute preparations for
Blogging
Donald Trump may be a talented man, but he has yet to find his 'inner blogger'. In the recent spat between the property tycoon and chatshow host Rosie O'Donnell, Trump has spent a lot of time slagging off O'Donnell in TV interviews, whereas she,
Blogging
Wired News reports from The international Global Voices summit, under the headline "Bloggers shrink the planet": "Once seen as primarily English, usually American, and often personal or geeky, the blogosphere today mostly resembles this room -- a noisy, transnational pastiche of culture and language. According to Technorati,
Blogging
Great advice and input on the recurring issue of how to handle trolls, flamers and 'uncivilised' comments in online media communities, some of which perhaps also could be applied to dealing with the less welcome side effects of blog popularity, from Kevin Anderson and Mark Potts (via Martin
Blogging
Social media is changing a great many things, and of course we need new words to describe a new reality. As always I find all these new terms and concepts fascinating: I've previously reflected on phenomena such as blog out and blogarazzi, today's additions (via Yahoo/
Blogging
What happens when media organisations and others are scrambling to get on the social media bandwagon without really understanding what they are getting themselves into? A lot of the time it all goes pear-shaped, so we need those debates about what is actually worth getting involved in, and how to
Blogging
Blogging is getting so hip and trendy that between Mohammed Al Fayed's new blog and the blog Jeffrey Archer started writing this summer, Jackie Danicki wonders if she really wants to call herself a blogger anymore... I guess it used to be sort of a radical thing to