Blogging
Some say blogging is about conversation, but one of the curses of popularity is that sometimes those conversations attract a rather odd crowd of hangers-on who tend to pollute rather than add to the debate. A recent blogger's do (all links in this sentence in Norwegian) even revealed
Media
Announced cuts at Denmark's Berlingske Officin, Germany's Hamburg Post and Norway's Edda Media have caused uproar among Mecom Europe's employee representatives. The hard-won but fragile truce between former Mirror boss David Montgomery and the journalist unions in his new media empire has
Blogging
Surely, when politicians start flocking to international blogging conferences, begging for a spot in the speaker line-up, that's when blogging has become... eh... well, mainstream? Live blogging from LeWeb3, the third Les Blogs conference in Paris, Robin Hamman, is disappointed by how this year's speakers "
Blogging
"The comfortable one-way model of publisher to editor to journalist to reader has changed forever. There is no turning back. It kind of happened before our eyes, but like those frogs slowly boiling in water as the heat is turned up, we may not have noticed – unless of course
Current Affairs
Fabulous headline from Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish): I'm not sure if the word pun is intended, but the surname of Swedish astronaut Christer Fulgesang does indeed mean birdsong. Mr Birdsong is the first Swede in space, a fact heralded by The Local as "one giant step for
Blogging
You can keep your eyes down and all of that, but, unfortunately, the world has its fare share of scumbags, and sometimes trouble invites itself. Jackie took the matter in her own hands, and published the story of how she was assaulted on the underground, along with a picture of
Blogging
Blogs start with identity, not with audience. They are conversational, personal, opinionated - everything that public broadcasters, restricted by their commitment to impartiality, are not. Right? Yet, public broadcasters, as newspapers and the rest of the media industry, are forced to adapt to a new media reality where people have
Media
Newspapers have always been part of the wider conversation, and the role of enabler and moderator is hardly a revolutionary new job to those writing or editing their editorial pages: it's just that in the age before Internet this conversation was narrower, slower and less immediate. Jeff Jarvis
Media
Eight commentators set Sweden's national news agenda; where they lead on a political story, the rest of the country's media will follow. That is, if we are to believe Manuel Ferrer, the Social Democratic Party's Head of Press, currently on paternity leave. "The
Personal
I know I should, it would make my life easier, but I've just had a crash course in how to procrastinate effectively, and have decided to just head for the gym. Here's an excerpt, but do check out the full post, which tells you how to
Pictures
Sometimes words are unnecessary
Freesheets
"One definition of fatigue is 'a feeling of excessive tiredness or lethargy, with a desire to rest, perhaps to sleep. Often it causes yawning.' That's the feeling I get from this flood of freesheets." Hans Kullin about the recent freesheet invasion in Sweden'