PublicBroadcasting
Could it be that the future of public service media is a kind of platform, rather than the current crop of public service entities - which are all essentially channels? The question is posed by Steve Bowbrick, recently appointed blogger-in-residence by BBC. For the next six months he'll
Pictures
Korntin Bay yesterday evening (photoshopped version: the original was pretty, but not quite so pink) Korntin Bay tonight (slightly photoshopped) The original photo of Korntin tonight: the ambience was eerie, but beautiful. Why all these landscapes? Leaving for Oslo tomorrow afternoon, so no more walks by the sea for a
Journalism
"Readers are more critical to online journalism today than three years ago. The only ones who are even more critical to online journalism are the journalists themselves," media researcher Arne Krumsvik talking about a survey he'll be presenting at a journalism conference this Saturday.The survey
Blogging
Here's your chance to hear Eirik Solheim, one of the new media gurus at The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK), talk about NRKs blogging efforts, media transparency and how to engage readers in the new media reality. I might be promising a bit too much here as this is
Blogging
Blogger and editor Raja Petra “RPK” Kamarudin is to be held in detention for two years under the country's draconian Internal security act (ISA). Petra, 58, has been held in Kuala Lumpur since 12 September under article 73 of the same law. He is charged with sewing confusion
Journalism
Despite the apparant lack of bloggers and twitterers hammering away on their keyboards to communicate their experiences live from the Global Investigative Journalism Conference (GIJC) at Lillehammer this month, it is still possible to find some useful notes and reports from the event online;-) The first point of stop
Journalism
David Kaplan, the director for International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) on harmonica during the Global Investigative Journalism Conference (GIJC) 2008 at Lillehammer, Norway, last week. I've uploaded all my more informal pictures from the event to Journalisten.no's Flick'r account (which means all
Travel
Sweden is by far the worst: I've yet to encounter a hotel there with tea- and coffee making facilities and ironing gear in the hotel room - and I've stayed in quite a few hotels there. Norway is pretty bad on this too, and while it&
Media
Those of you who've read this blog for a while might remember the main part of this headline from last year. This weekend, financial daily Dagen's Naeringsliv (DN) ran a story on how the trend I described then, was pretty much repeated for the first half
Blogging
I came across two posts today that brilliantly spell out how web 2.0 is a blessing for journalists Of course, those of you who've spent a lot of time using social media might be familiar with a lot of this, but the posts summarise the headlines of
Freesheets
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Pictures
Looks like the summer IS over. Most of the seasonal haunts were all borded up and closed, like this one, when I finally found time for a non-working weekend by the seaside. Ah well, still pretty though (and a lot cheaper this way)...