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On Tuesday this week, Politiken.dk, the news site of one of Denmark's leading newspapers, started using Twingly to show blog links to the sites' articles (I covered the news here, in Norwegian. More about Politiken's reasons for doing so here, in Danish). As it
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Okay, I made what I guess you could call a Freudian slip when I started this post, I wrote an a rather than an o: blagging. Now that's a way to look at blogging, the former is certainly a long treasured skill for journalists. But the point I
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For the Swedish Tax authority, that is. Apparently they will enlighten us as to exactly how bloggers and SMS loans pose a new risk when they present the first year results from an e-commerce project today. They will also present their findings from 'control areas' such as pornography,
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This piece is absolutely hillarious, so I couldn't help but share it with you. Here's an excerpt, but go read the whole thing. The author first deals with the woes of the music industry: "You think you were the first to suffer from your content
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Remember the Swedish blogger who brought down a trade minister? Well it seems the story is repeating itself in the UK. Iain Dale suggests it was blogger Guido Fawkes who through is relentless campaign forced Hain's resignation as Work and Pensions secretary, and Guido certainly thinks so himself
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Jemima Kiss notes how US sports reporters, in what interestingly is not an isolated incident, have been issued with strict blogging rules by the NCCA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) and effectively asks if live blogging is threatening the business model of the events industry. Admittedly, Jemima looks specifically at whether
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What, if any, is the added value news sites can get from linking to bloggers? If you're well versed in the dynamics of social media you might think this a silly question, but for news companies with a deeply ingrained 'silo-mentality' the answers are far from
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While catching up with my neglected RSS-feeds (that's getting to be a regular habit of mine, while too busy chasing deadlines I tend to save the 'thinking blogs' for a quieter day), I came across yet another healthy reminder of how to (not) go about blogging.
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Social media is something you have to engage with yourself to fully understand. I've previously voiced my fears about how many companies seem to believe they can outsource that whole 'Web 2.0 thing', leave it to third party providers, though just where I made that
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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’
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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
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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