Media
Trond Giske, Norway's culture minister, seeks to amend the coutry's media ownership law to limit how big a share of national online traffic one company can control, a proposition that garners support from both sides of the political divide (via Adresseavisa.no) It had to happen
Blogging
Replace that with traffic vs substance if you like, excellent quote from Doc Searls in this post, something to think about: ... do you go for buzz, or do you go for substance? Yes, you can go for both, but if your main purpose is popularity you sell out substance. That’
Blogging
It was perhaps a bit improper to blog this on a Sunday as I intended, hence I conveniently forgot to publish it until today, but I stumbled across this CEO blog, which, hang on, is not just yet another of those boring CEO blogs, but may with some justification be
Web/Tech
It's vouge these days to talk about how the younger generation will turn the media world upside down, digital natives as they are. And yet, this statement is paradoxical, as too many journalism students, digital natives or not, seem to "aspire to work in some newsroom ca
Blogging
Today's required reading for all PRs and marketeers who want to get a handle on how to approach bloggers: I mean, I've done my bit of PR-work in the past, and I'm embarrassed on a daily basis on behalf of all the PRs who
Blogging
I spent close to 1700 words outlining my objections to Keen's Cult of the Amateur last week, even though I could have done it in three. I refrained from using the phrase lurking in the back of my mind, partly because I deemed it too academic, but, just
Media
I stumbled across this gem from Jeff Jarvis while catching up with my feeds. It explains all too well what too many mainstream media outlets fail to get, and hence where they fail, when implementing what they like to call 'new media' strategies: "They think this is
Media
"I wouldn't bet on us having a print version in five years," said Mikael Lindholm, editor-in-chief of Computer World Denmark. According to Berlingske, the weekly publication is the first Danish newspaper to make all its profit online. Last year, the title's paper version yielded
Media
Ashok of Rethink sent me a link to this piece by Bruce Bawer, asking me if the picture Bawer draws of Norwegian media could possible be correct. I thought Bawer's analysis raised so many interesting questions I thought I'd leave the floor open, what say you?
Free speech
Hmm........
Media
I've kept running out of time to expand on why exactly I find it so worrying that Andrew Keen's Cult of the Amateur, where he explains how 'amateurs' such as bloggers are destroying our culture, is taken seriously, but this post over at Daily
Blogging
Remember, remember, the fifth of November... until today I have not seen The Independent's "My Life in Media" interview a blogger before, and how timely that they should choose to interview none other than Guido Fawkes, one of Britain's most influential bloggers, on Bonfire