Swedish media about blogs

I was interviewed last week by news agency TT Spektra for a “how-to”-article about blogs. These articles will probably be published in several smaller Swedish dailies the coming week and maybe promote blogging on a wider scale in Sweden. The first article can be found online today in Hudiksvalls Tidning.

> Bloggar ger folket en röst.

> Så kommer du igång att blogga.

> 10 bra bloggsidor.

UPDATE: The article has now also been published in Ljusdals-Posten, Hälsinge-Kuriren and Karlskoga-Kuriren.

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Add Technorati to your browser

Technorati have launched a beta version of a new cool feature called Technorati This. Add it to your Links Toolbar and you can access Technorati from your browser, no matter what page you’re viewing.

You can use the Technorati This favelet in three ways:

– Select some text on any web page. Click the Technorati This favelet and it will search over 4.7 million weblogs for that text.

– While browsing any web page, click the Technorati This favelet and it will show you what bloggers are saying about that page right now.

– If the browser window is empty when you click the Technorati This favelet, it will ask you for a keyword or URL to search for.

More about Technorati This here.

Other useful favelets to add to your toolbar can be found here, for example Babelfish translations from Italian, French, German and Spanish into English. Finally I can read La Gazetta dello Sport in English.

Google reports success with internal blog

In an article in Network World, Jason Goldman, Blogger product manager at Google reports about the tremendous benefits from the first 18 months with an internal Weblog system. Google deployed an internal blog shortly after acquiring Blogger in early 2003. Says Goldman:

“Since then, we have seen a lot of different uses of blogs within the firewall: people keeping track of meeting notes, sharing diagnostics information, sharing snippets of code, as well as more personal uses, like letting co-workers know what they’re thinking about and what they’re up to. It really helps grow the intranet and the internal base of documents.”

Get buzzwhacked

Do you have an LOK (lack of knowledge) to what words like googleproof mean? Then double click on this ghetto fabulous site to stay on top of the latest buzzwords. Buzzwhack have listed popular buzzwords from 1904 to 2004 and you can read the entire list in The Guardian. Recent examples:

1996 ghetto fabulous

1997 dot-commer

1998 text message

1999 Google

2000 bling bling

2001 9/11

2002 axis of evil

2003 sex up

2004 chav

Googleproof: One of the few benefits of sharing a name with a celebrity. It’s virtually impossible for anyone to “google” or find out about you using an Internet search engine. You’re googleproof.

More about new words: Swedish slang dictionary.

Via Constantin Basturea.