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Auch! Sweden's blogging foreign minister Carl Bildt, previously heavily criticised for bypassing the media by writing a blog, has now been put under investigation for not removing certain reader comments made on his blog (but Bildt assures us that these comments have now been removed). The Local has
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Denmarks' public broadcaster is enrolling some 40 'expert bloggers' to give instant indepth analysis on the broadcaster's main news, if I understand this article correctly. The new feature will become a part of DR blogs this summer and goes under the name 'Project A-blogger:
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Swedish Metro has launched a new blog portal where bloggers get paid about half a US cent per page view. That is, if you get at least 5,000 page views per month, reports Media Culpa. Bloggers have often been accused of being parasites on mainstream media, but over time
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Spent today trying to figure out what I did with my money last year so I could hand in my accounts for 2006. Swallowed the bitter pill and decided to cut my losses with a client who's defaulted on his payment promises, almost bankrupting me in the process,
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Hans Kullin has generously blogged his notes from a debate on 'citizen journalism – threat or opportunity', hosted by the Swedish journalist union, and once again one of those issues where parts of the Swedish press is seriously confused raised its ugly (or ridiculous) head: the controversy over Sweden&
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I'm frequently exasperated by the all too common misunderstandings about the nature of blogs, eagerly restated by columnists and editors at regular intervals, like here and here, and recently given an alibi by Andrew Keen's forthcoming book on bloggers as parasites and what have you (sometimes
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A follow-up post from Mike Rouse on my post about UK bloggers vs broadcasters: As one of those trawling the blogs I can assure you that we were indeed ahead because of the priceless information posted on blogs very quickly. Some bloggers had contacts within counts, others posted from mobile
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Who said readers aren't willing to pay for good online content? Early this month Swedish blogger Dick Erixon asked his readers to contribute money to his time-consuming blogging efforts. He said he'd close down his blog if he didn't raise 100,000 SEK (about
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Or did they? At least Iain Dale claims trawling blogs helped 18 Doughty Street web-Tv beat the two broadcasting giants by about half an hour to announcing the results of this week's UK elections. It's a wonderful illustration of our (ever-) changing media landscape. I vividly
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A recent 'seminar' on blogging by media intelligence company Cision left me somewhat baffled. The talks, by Richard Gatarski and Alexander Mason, were inspiring enough, but Cision used the seminar to launch its plans to offer new, and no doubt expensive, blogmonitoring for its clients. This didn'
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Johan Norberg suggests the Press Freedom Day should be made a Freedom of Speech day. I couldn't agree more. This debate from the Frontline Club in London really illustrates why (thanks to Kevin Anderson for live blogging it). During the debate, Egyptian blogger Alaa Abd-Fatah summed of the
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What happens when you get a team of ardent bloggers to live blog the annual conference of the The Editors' Association, where Norway's editors are gathered to learn more about new developments that challenge and change the role of the editor - such as citizen journalism, blogging