Blogging
It's been months since I revisited the value of linking out, so it was great to stumble across this post by Publishing 2.0 (via Martin Stabe), which contained too many eloquent lines on the power of the hyperlink to include them all on del.icio.us. My
Blogging
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
Media
Yesterday, Bonnier's announcement of its full-year results for 2007, earnings had improved by roughly £7,6m (9bn SEK) to roughly £24,5m (29bn SEK), was so brief that journalists complained about the lack of more numbers. But the full-year results were soon forgotten when one of the media
Libel
The peculiar case of the Icelandic bank who brought a libel suit against a Danish tabloid in London was finally settled today. Icelandic bank Kaupthing said in a press release that Danish tabloid Ekstra Bladet had agreed to pay the bank "very substantial damages", and cover "reasonable
Free speech
Today several Danish newspapers carry pictures of a controversial Mohammed cartoon, depicting the prophet as a suicide bomber, in sympathy with cartoonist Kurt Westergaard. Many editors were shocked when a plot to murder Westergaard, for drawing caricatures satirising Mohammed, was unveiled yesterday. Editors at Politiken and Berlingske Tidende - along
Media
From a comment thread on Steven Smith's News is a Conversation blog: USA Today: WE'RE DEAD. Wall Street Journal: Dow Jones Plummets as World Ends National Enquirer: Britney Parties While Millions Die Rolling Stone: The Grateful Dead Reunion Tour Sports Illustrated: Game Over Playboy: Girls of
Citizen journalism
Some see it as cheap or free labour lowering the standards of journalism; others as a vital tool to reengage a disengaged audience, levelling the playing field in the process. Citizen journalism may have been a bit off the mainstream radar in Norway's online media town in 2007.
On The McCanns' debate: Greenslade: "I'm unsure what will emerge from a debate tonight about the media coverage of Madeleine McCann's disappearance. But, given the cast list on a rather crowded panel, it does promise to offer heat, if not light." Greenslade on
Media
Talking about strange bedfellows, this article (in Norwegian) deals with the many and intricate liaisons among the country's online newspapers aimed at driving online traffic (even if you can't make head or tail of the language, try replacing the big names in the map with the
Headlines 2007
....the unlikely bedfellows you get when online traffic is the new mammon, and national media organisations want to be your new (hyper)local news provider. Ideology no obstacle This brave new media world of ours creates the strangest bedfellows, a recent example being the sales negotiations between Mecom's
Media
Talking of the mood in Davos, I bet the mood has been pretty grim in many media boardrooms these last few weeks as well. Of course, since media shares are cyclical and vulnerable to the minute mood swings in the advertisement market, the executives should perhaps expect their companies'
Media
Dutch journalists threatened industrial action after 78 job-cost, of which 15 were editorial, were announced in the Dutch part of Mecom this week. The redundancies in Media Groep Limburg (MGL) came due to "synergy effects" with the Mecom's other recent acquisition in Holland, Dutch newspaper group,