Swedish Digg clone Digga adds video support
Digga, one of the Swedish Digg clones, recently redesigned their site. Just like Digg did recently, they are now also adding support for video clips,...
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"The hatemongers stormed the gates"
The local newspaper the Sun-Sentinel is facing critisism for allowing “racist stereotypes, slurs, and sentimental references to slavery and lynchings”. Bob Norman writes: This summer,...
Insurance company uses social media site to put together travel insurance
resedagboken.com is a social media site for Swedish travellers around the globe, mainly backpackers. It’s run by Europeiska, an insurance company. They asked 2152 of...
A call for excellence in journalism
Democracy is under threat, as “old media” is cutting down and the discussion goes along the lines if “excellence” is needed since it costs too...
eSnips builds communities around shared files
At Mashable, I read about eSnips, a “YouTube for everything” that lets you share various kinds of files (video, audio, text, photos..). The site has...
Zoom lenses for cellphones to fuel the citizen paparazzi trend?
Hong Kong-based Mobile Brando has developed a tele lens for Sony Ericsson cellphones, writes Norwegian tech site forbruker.no. It also works with Nokia cellphones by...
Johan Jernemalm – Aftonbladet's "citizen photographer of the year"
From the thousands of citizen photographers sending their photos to Aftonbladet in 2006, eight finalists were selected. The readers got to decide which one of...
Blogger urges Swedish police to go 2.0
Swedish blogger Johnny at Stationsvakt has an idea for how the Swedish polce could use web2.0 to catch more criminals. Johnny brings up the example...
Yet another YouTube clone in Sweden
They are popping up with increasing frequenzy, the Swedish answers to YouTube. Not long after FejmTv, which quickly became a success, and Aftonbladet’s Klipptoppen, MTG-owned...
"Gatekeeping is over" – new wiki enables anonymous leaks
A new wiki is being set up by Chinese dissidents in collaboration with mathematicians and startup company technologists, from the US, Taiwan, Europe, Australia and...
Newsrooms posing the wrong question?
An interesting post by Steve Yelvington highlights some of the questions newsrooms are posing – and should be posing – today. In a discussion about,...
Reading stats for the Guardian's blogs – but incoming links more important, says McIntosh
On his blog, Neil McIntosh, head of editorial development at Guardian Unlimited, offers some usually secret statistics of blog traffic at the Guardian. blog traffic...
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