Media
The Brits seem increasingly reluctant to dish out their hard earned pennies on tabloids, a story that is much the same in Norway: only this weekend Dagbladet announced new cuts due to dwindling print sales. That's only half the story though, what is unique about Dagbladet is that
Blogging
Reuters reports that an Ipsos MORI study has found that Europeans trust blogs (24 per cent) more than television ads (17 per cent) or email marketing (14 per cent). Newspapers were still more trusted than blogs (30 per cent). 52 per cent also said they were persuaded to make a
Blogging
Are blogs trustworthy sources of information? It's a question raised again and again, as people are trying to figure out what sort of world this new information landscape will lead us to. In "Three lies about social software" JP Rangaswami debunks a few persistent myths: Lie
Current Affairs
Where else can you read these two headlines on the same day: "One in four Swedes think astrology is a science" and "Drunken elk terrorises schoolkids"... it has to be Sweden of course. That lovely, but slightly wacky place across the border from my current whereabouts.
Current Affairs
Imagine a world where you could get your Harvard education via your computer in Timbuktu, or vote and propose new amendments in the virtual city hall, without ever having to leave your armchair. Those were the key sentiments I took away from this talk (picture below) on how virtual worlds
Blogging
The story of the Swedish blogger who brought down a government minister took an interesting twist last week when Expressen, the tabloid who ran the story as its exclusive scoop a day after the blogger had published his story, restated that it was indeed the newspaper, and not the blogger,
Current Affairs
Virtual worlds are not normally something I'd have the time or inclination to play around with, but tonight I'm attending a seminar about The New Virtual Frontier in Second Life. The place has received a lot of media coverage recently, especially after Reuters set up shop
Freesheets
Edda Media (the new name for Mecom's Norwegian newspaper portfolio) is up in arms over a government proposal that will put door-to-door distributed freesheets on par with unsolicited advertisement. The media company has 13 local freesheets in the Greater Oslo area. If the proposed revision of Norway'
Blogging
I vividly remember a time when friends were telling me all about the blogging revolution that surely was coming any day now, but most people had no idea what a blog was. Now even the Pentagon and the US intelligence community have started using blog-like-tools and wikis to communicate both
Acquisitions
Hot on the heels of Google's acquisition of You Tube, wiki software company Jotspot has become the latest addition to the Google empire. Here's Jotspot co-founder Joe Kraus announcing the deal on Google blog. "It’s obvious to anyone following developments in the Web 2.
Media
Amidst all the talk of how blogging is changing the way a story is reported, and how in this brave new media world personality, rather than the elusive quest for neutrality, seems key to building an audience, it is easy to forget that media impartiality wasn't always the
Acquisitions
It's a tempting conclusion to draw after a week that saw Norway's leading media group sell its stake in the country's biggest commercial TV-station, TV2, and one of Scandinavia's most successful internet entrepeneurs launch plans for a new online TV-channel. Of course