Posts tagged “blogging”
Finnish blogosphere boiling
The Finnish blogosphere seems to be boiling, due to the fact that commercial blogging services are entering the market and more precisely; the Finnish bloglist, blogilista.fi, was sold to a company. Some people have said they will stop writing because of this and others have just written about their dislike for this. Janne has, as [...]
Typepad Finland!
Interesting, just as I said a couple of days ago about commercial blogs arriving into Finland – Loic has announced that Typepad Finland is a go! Interesting to see how this will pick off in Finland, where blogging is not “that big” yet.
First Podcast
I did my first podcast today – an mp3 -file that sounds like a radioshow – more or less. The technology is out there, but I have to say – it’s still not very easy to do so. Once a single program that could do the recording, and playing of simultaneous audio files at the [...]
Commercial blogs to arrive in Finland?
The CEO of Sanoma, Mikael Pentik?ßinen, has said in a newspaper/e-zine interview that he wants to get blogs as part of their company portfolio. He has heard that 70% of teenage girls in America read blogs and a quarter of them have one. This goes closely hand in hand with what I had to say [...]
Finnish blogger sued over his opinions
A Finnish blogger has been sued by another individual regarding the >”degrading one’s honour/kunnianloukkaus” (my own attempt at converting it to English) defamation of character (pointed to me by my friend expertised in law from Scotland). Therefore one could argue that Jani, from marginaali is being sued because of his opinions. The person who sued [...]
Blogs taking over the world!
I noticed my Korean friends viewing some websites with lots of images and text for a long time, and I’ve seen this on many days so I asked them what are you guys doing? “Ah, we’re reading blogs”. That stunned me! They told about 80% of 20 to 30 year olds in Korea have a [...]
Interview with a link spammer
Thanks for Heiko for providing the link to this – An interview with a link spammer. Makes the circle complete for these jackasses working in the PPC industry.
dotKommuuni.com
I’ve just opened my new blog – dotKommuuni.com. It is written in Finnish and will concentrate on issues ranging from technology, arts, design, culture and the society in general. I guess you can call it a sort of Finnish amateur version of Wired – or something related to that. I’m hoping to make this a [...]
Thanks to the blogosphere!
I have been receiving a lot of hits in the last 5 to 7 days from different sites. I’m glad people like the stuff I write and link to it, thus I’d like to thank them in contrary and promote them as well (marketing works both ways ;) ): Alex Nieminen from Sukellus.fi for his [...]
SixApart buys LiveJournal!
I haven’t even heard the rumours, but Heiko (the guy in charge of SA in Germany) writes about this in his blog. Interesting, I think this will create a larger dominance for SA in the blogging scene. Looks like this will come down to the fight of the big three, SixApart, Blogger and perhaps MSN [...]
Sukellus.fi aiding Finnish tsunami victims
Sukellus.fi, a Finnish scuba-diving blog/site helped Finnish tsunami victims and relatives a lot better than any ministry did. This has been noted in Finland very widely. Alex Nieminen, one of the admins of the site, has written a thorough piece of work on the past week (unfortunately in Finnish). This has even travelled to the [...]
Podcasting
I’ve been looking into Podcasting in the last few days (when I haven’t been staring at the news endlessly). Podcasting is like having your own radiostation broadcast on your own blog. Podcasting, the name, surprise suprise comes from iPods and broadcasting. To be able to listen to podcasts, all you basically need is an mp3 [...]
Blog Addiction
A month back I told a friend about blogs and how they have so much more insight into things than traditional news and columns in newspapers. She now told me that she has grown an addiction into the top blogs on the Pinseri blogilista (the unofficial official Finnish bloglist). She has also spread the addiction [...]
The Becker-Posner Blog
While trying to find the motivation and energy to do my thesis, I came across an academic blog, written by two very prestigious gentlemen; Becker is a Nobel-prize-winning economist who in addition to scholarly publications on a wide range of economic issues including education, discrimination, labor, the family, crime, addiction, and immigration, for many years [...]
Microsoft opens a free blogging service
MSN Spaces – Microsoft’s new free blogging service is in beta mode. The service comes with a blog, photo albums, ability to show music lists, etc. Seems like it has all the basic stuff required to run a blog. I think this will be one of the services that will take blogging into mainstream – [...]
Trolls and harassment
There has been quite a bit of talk in the Finnish blogosphere about trolls and harassment in general regarding weblogs. People have been attacked, because of their opinions and entries they write on their weblogs. Janne wonders about this phenomenon, there’s writing in the unofficial official Finnish bloglist forum and many others as well. Russell [...]
Blogspot down?
Hmm.. seems like Blogspot is down. I just tried to update my IsoG -blog and the whole page is empty. Anybody else who could confirm this? I can access the Blogspot dashboard, no problem, but the blogs seem to be down – or at least mine is. UPDATE: And after posting this it started working [...]
12 000 blogs daily
Dave Sifry has a post with some interesting information regarding blogging. He of course works at Technorati and thus the konwledge for the extensive data. They are now tracking 4 million weblogs at Technorati and only 3 months back the number was 3 million. This means that the amount of new blogs created daily as [...]
WordPressµ
WordPress is a very well known and growing blogging application that is available for anybody to download. I talked today with the WordPress µ (mu) developer Donncha, who is coding a multiuser version of WordPress. This is actually something I’ve been waiting for from the open-source blogging community :) The muWP is still a bit [...]
Nokia Lifeblog 1.0 now available
Nokia Lifeblog 1.0 is now available for download. There is a trial version which you can install, but you can only store up to 200 items and then you have to buy the license if you wish to go past that. The license costs a mere 30$. The only downside of this is the compatibility [...]
Sharing a MA Thesis
My friend, Panu, has just posted his draft research plan regarding his Master’s thesis on his blog. He is looking for comments and ideas on – “EU – Russia energy dialogue with a special geographical emphasis on the Baltic Sea” Yet another example of blogging. Actually this is not all that new, it has happened [...]
Blogging North Korea
Rebecca MacKinnon has started to blog about North Korea. She is a longtime employee of CNN and has been to North Korea 5 times – she should have something to say about the issue, that she claims, ” is hardly discussed in the US media”. This is an experiment in interactive, participatory journalism. And in [...]
Not done yet!
Found this from another blog called Far From Perfect: He wasn’t done (should be put under the humour category as well). Yet another example of how interesting blogs can be – even though the writers might think that its boring and quite plain to write about your work. Blogs related to people’s jobs should be [...]
Videos on blogging from Davos
Wow, Loïc posted some videos from the blogging discussion in Davos on his site and I love them! Excellent stuff. It’s good enough to read these guys’ blogs, but watching them on video – just amazing. Very interesting discussion on blogging and filtering out the relevant news, as one of the BusinessWeek reporters put it. [...]
Janne on Tv
Just finished watching Janne‘s(from SchizoBlog) interview on the morning TV. It was relatively good in my opinion, it got the message out to people what blogs are. The first thing he did, was in fact to correct the interviewee that they are blogs and not diaries being written online. The most important thing that he [...]