Blogging
I was going to say that if how journalists and bloggers treat information is anything to go by, I'd much rather marry a blogger than a journalist. Because in this respect, journalists are conditioned to be the worst control-freaks imaginable: the kind of person who'd lock
Blogging
The sentiment belongs to the Lebanese artist Zena el-Kahlil. During a seminar on how free the internet really is earlier this month, she spoke for the first about what happened during the July Warin Beirut in the summer of 2006 That summer she penned Beirut Update, a blog that became
Acquisitions
"Did the Norwegians celebrate 17 May by closing the Swedish fool's project Punkt SE? Well, at least the announcement of the closure came on the first working day after Norway's national day, even though the decision had been on the table for a few weeks,
Blogging
Just as I was putting together that post on Blondinbella and product placement, I came across Natalie's wonderful Blogging 101 for Publicists: an excellent tutorial in blogger relations for PRs from my favourite mixologist (who as far as I know blog for ... eh.. love and public spirit) I
Blogging
How could I possible think I could get away with mentioning 'product placement' in the same line as blog and think I could avoid revisiting that age old debate surrounding it? I couldn't of course, but this is all down to me as I haphazardly talked
Blogging
I have to confess that I've shamelessly ripped the headline of this post, as well as the first quote, from a post on NRKbeta, but it all serves a larger purpose. You see, NRKbeta brought my attention to this thought-provoking quote from an article by Douglas Adams, which,
Blogging
'Waking up' might be a bit of understatement, but there seems to be a steady stream of news from Sweden about mainstream media acquiring blogs to reach attractive niche audiences and advertisers. A week back, news broke that magazine publisher Egmont was acquiring the male fashion blog Manolo.
Travel
At some point I feared a re-run of my trip to Costa Rica in 99, when my luggage never got to San Jose with me, and I, for lack of anything better to wear, ended up donning the hotel bed sheets to a VIP reception. But then I thought: at
Media
The debate about the death of printed newspapers was given a somewhat new slant this week with the candid comments of the newly appointed managing director of Norway's biggest newspaper. During the Nordic Media Days in Bergen, one panelist said Torry Pedersen, editor-in-chief of Schibsted-owned VG.no, the
Blogging
About this time last year I had great fun putting together a team of media bloggers who live blogged the Norwegian Editor's Association's annual conference which was headlined "Editor 2.0" (on commission from that very same organisation). While writing this, I'm
Free speech
Government efforts to censor the web are on the rise, but filtering the web tend to be inefficient, and lightweight technological solutions, which makes web-surveillance more difficult, are also on the rise. That, in essence, was the conclusion(s) I took away from a very interesting full-day seminar on this
Media
'I think we need a new journalistic method. It's not the finished articles with a beginning, middle and end that are interesting to comment on.' The words belong to Paal Hivand, who during a forum for online journalism I launched for Journalisten last week (link in