Media
Interesting post from Shane Richmond on how the term "off stone" epitomises a mentality made redundant by the "digital revolution": No time limit means publishing faster. Less time, not more. And the other pressure, on resources, is changing the model too. One school of thought, embraced
Blogging
Adam over at One Man and his Blog alerted me to this brilliant post by Howard Owens, "Journalists who learn to blog help their online sites grow beyond shovelware". Adam is particularly taken by these lines: Most of the bad bloggers tend to gravitate toward current affairs blogging.
Media
Looking over the various coverage of Mecom's annual results in international media this morning, I was struck by this line from Financial Times (I must admit I've always found it a bit peculiar how FT often adds comments below their articles): "If Mecom avoids labour
Media
Although it is the worst performing 'Mecom-country', the changes wrought in 2007, has put Berlingske Officin, Mecom's Danish arm, ahead of competition in the Danish market. At least according to Henrik Schultz, a media analyst at Kaupthing, who follows Scandinavian media companies closely. "Montgomery has
Freesheets
Now, here's an interesting contrarian take on what's bringing down Schibsted's share price. To say that these are not the jolliest of times for media shares would be an understatement. Schibsted, the Norwegian based media group, much praised internationally for its successful online transition,
The Swedish Prime Minister, Fredrik Reinfeldt, speaking to students at the The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) on "The New Swedish Model: A Reform Agenda for Growth and the Environment": It is a pleasure to be here at LSE. Anybody who wants to study globalisation
Media
Not much came of the Berliner Zeitung journalists' demands that their proprietor, Mecom-boss David Montgomery, divest the newspaper if he was not planning to invest in it and get rid of his henchman in Germany, Joseph Depenbrock. According to Taz.de, Montgomery, who had travelled to Berlin to convey
Media
Mecom-boss David Montgomery is expected to attend to the increasingly tense situation at the Berliner Zeitung in a visit to Berlin this week, according to Financial Times Deutschland, who claims nothing less than a war is raging in Berlin (in German). Now, several concerned readers from various Mecom-countries contacted me
Media
Drupal, a long time favourite free content management system of web hacker-geeks, is going mainstream. In Denmark, national news sites such as Information.dk, as well as media sites Mediawatch.dk and Journalisten.dk are among those who have swapped their expensive and often complicated content management systems (CMS) for
Travel
Thanks to Virgin cancelling all its trains to Manchester and Liverpool on Saturday, I got to see a lot more of England than I intended this week. In addition to my planned visits to the three L's (Lincoln, London and Liverpool), I also got to see vast amounts
Media
Schibsted's plans to create a giant newspaper group that will see Schibsted-owned national Aftenposten 'merged' with regional newspapers Faedrelandsvennen, Stavanger Aftenblad and Bergens Tidende was approved against all odds on Tuesday. Norway's media authority, Medietilsynet, ruled against the merger last summer, arguing that Schibsted&
Travel
Well, that's not quite accurate (it just rhymes better): I almost lost my voice somewhere between that delayed flight from Copenhagen, which didn't quite get me back home by midnight on Friday, and arriving London early Monday morning. But I've never been happier to