Personal
I don't remember quite how I acquired my penchant for coffee, but I do know how unfulfilled I feel if I don't have at least two cups of the black stuff in the morning, and a few more throughout the day. I have felt at times,
Blogging
Think Danes, Norwegians, and/or Swedes speak funny? Well, here's how to amuse yourself: today a Danish version of Bubblare, a video-community modelled on YouTube, went online. The company behind the concept has previously set up similar sites for Norwegian and Swedish video-enthusiasts. Link via Dagens Medier
Media
My favourite biotechnology expert, blogger-journalist and friend Lene, has finally started blogging from St. Louis again: a city stuck in the US bible belt, but also home to a number of big biotech companies and research institutes, and as such a potent battleground for the future of new science. More
Media
In today's interview with Dagens Nyheter, Per Jodenius says he was ordered to give Expressen's reporter, Niklas Svensson, the log-in details to the Social Democrats' intranet so Svensson could dig up dirt on Sweden's governing party. The Liberal party activist, who was expelled
Current Affairs
For those who need to brush up on Swedish politics before Sunday's parliamentary election, here's an unusual representation of the political parties' actual voting records and alignments in parliament. It shows that despite Sweden's multi-party system, overall politics is 1-2 dimensional like British
Current Affairs
In an election there's always so much spin floating around that it can be hard to decipher what's really going on, but here's an interesting thought: what if the 'hacking-scandal' was all manufactured by an ingenious, or not so ingenious, soul in
Acquisitions
How convenient that I didn't start writing about this proposed merger before it hit the final stages: if I had I'd be on part xxx. The only firm decision reached yesterday was that Adresseavisa, as expected, opted out of the merger. The other parties will continue
Current Affairs
Yesterday's 'attempted coup' against Blair was pretty dramatic. Luckily, Tom Watson, the junior minister who resigned, has a blog where we can read not only his resignation letter but also some of the reactions it sparked (the comment section here is a must-read if you'
Media
Expressen's reporter Niklas Svensson, who was suspended for accessing the intranet of Sweden's governing party, says he didn't notify his superiors about his actions because he was 'protecting a source'. Full interview here (in Swedish).
Current Affairs
A reporter has been suspended from Swedish tabloid Expressen after it was revealed that a Liberal Party activist who obtained access to the governing party's computer network had passed the log-in information on to him. This gave political reporter Niklas Svensson ample opportunity to study the Social Democrats&
Media
Norway's culture minister is worried it will reduce newspaper diversity and harm local democracy. The newspaper's employees are worried about job cuts resulting from 'synergy effects'. No, we're not talking about David Montgomery or another foreigner and/or venture capitalist buying into
Current Affairs
Of course the story about the young Liberal Party (FP) activists obtaining access to the computer network of Sweden's governing party on their own, without passing on information and with no benefits to the party, was a bit too implausible. Late last night Johan Jakobsson, FP's