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Googling stolen articles

The editorial staff at Swedish technology trade weekly Ny Teknik (New Technology) noticed how companies and organisations increasingly copied articles from Ny Teknik and put on their own web pages. In just two days, reporters found 70 copied articles, using a simple search on Google, reports Journalisten.

The people responsible for the web pages were contacted and told to remove the copyrighted material, and then recieved an invoice from Ny Teknik. So far, this search has brought in SEK 110,000 (about 12,000 Euro), from just 13 of these articles.

To me that is a word of warning to bloggers, who often shamelessly copy entire articles or several paragraphs of copyrighted texts.

Link via Erik Stattin.

Nordic media RSS feeds

I have compiled a list of more than 80 RSS feeds for Nordic media. Included are also press releases RSS feeds. I haven’t tried all of them and can’t guarantee they are working.

UPDATE: I have added 11 feeds for alternative publication Stockholms Fria Tidning. A reflection, how come that it is alternative media and the really big giants that are experimenting with RSS, but few players “in between”, like trade publications?

Norway:

Aftenbladet

Aftenbladet – News

Aftenbladet – Local

Aftenbladet – Norwegian

Aftenbladet – Abroad

Aftenbladet – Business

Aftenbladet – Politcs

Aftenbladet – Monitor

Aftenbladet – Commentary

Aftenbladet – Editorial

Aftenbladet – Sports

Aftenbladet – Culture

Aftenbladet – Magazine

Adresseavisen

Aftenposten

Aftenposten – News

Aftenposten – Norwegian

Aftenposten – Foreign

Aftenposten – Oslo

Aftenposten – Science

Aftenposten – Business

Aftenposten – Sports

Aftenposten – Elite Serie

Aftenposten – Premier League

Aftenposten – In English

Dagbladet

Dagbladet – Nyheter

Dagbladet – Sports

Dagbladet – Magazine

Dagbladet – Culture

Dagbladet – Friday

Dagbladet – Knowledge

Dagbladet – On your side

Digi.no

IT-avisen

itpro.no

Mobiltelefon.no

Teknisk Ukeblad

VG – Main

VG – Sport

VG – News

VG – Entertainment

VG – IT

Denmark:

Alt om København

Bizreport

Børsen online

Comon

ComputerWorld

CopyMagazine

Daily Rush

DR – News

DR – News (different feed)

DR – Sportss

Filmz.dk

Geek Culture

Netavisen Infopaq

Information

Ingeniøren|Net

MediaMac

Pressefotografforbundet

Sportenkort (10 latest)

TV2 Finans

TV2 Nyhederne

Århus Stiftstidende Netavis

Finland:

Helsingin Sanomat Daily, 5 latest headlines

Iceland:

Morgunbladid

Swedish press releases etc

Dagensbok.com

IBM – Swedish press releases

IT-universitetet in Gothenburg

Karolinska Institutet – News

Karolinska Institutet – Press releases

Skellefteå

Swedish Research News Blog

Immedeacy vs. Accuracy

It is not just in blogs that “immedeacy is more important than accuracy” to borrow the words of Nick Denton. The same sometimes goes for traditional online media. Today, the hottest news story in Sweden is whether Italian striker Francesco Totti would get suspended for spitting Danish player Christian Poulsen (Sweden faces Italy tomorrow in Euro 2004). In the race for getting the news out first, Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet jumped the gun and declared that UEFA had decided to suspend Totti. Problem was, they hadn’t.

The article was withdrawn for a short while and a media culpa was published, blaming “technical problems”! “Due to a technical error Aftonbladet previously reported that Totti had been suspended”.

Update: Totti did indeed get suspended, and the media culpa was lifted from aftonbladet.se shortly after.

Smartmobs on journalism

Howard Rheingold publishes a speech he delivered yesterday to the graduating class of Stanford’s Communication Department.

He writes: “I am convinced that the last time young communicators faced this degree of excitement, peril, opportunity, uncertainty, and responsibility was 1776.”

And: “While all these attacks on expression are underway and barriers to communication are being put in place, people around the globe are making entirely new kinds of art and journalism. Young people in every part of the world are using and inventing blogs, wikis, mobile messaging, desktop video, digital music, online animation, social software.”

Don’t be rude to a journalist with a blog

PR practitioners mess up now and then, as everybody else. Problem is that when you are rude to a journalist who has a personal blog, it becomes public knowledge.

Freelance writer Simone Paddock had an unpleasant encounter with a PR rep from the Sisters Rodeo Association. The whole story was out on her blog yesterday.

Lesson learned. Of course you should not treat reporters badly, but if you pick one who has a personal blog, chances are the damages increase exponentially.

Link via Utterlyboring.com.

Resumé – welcome to the blogosphere

Swedish marketing weekly Resumé finally stepped up to the plate today and wrote an article (in Swedish) about blogs (Nike’s adverblog). But it took an article in Brand Republic to get them interested. Resumé often (28 hits on their webpage) rewrites material from Brand Republic.

It strikes me as funny that the most influential marketing weekly in Sweden, who should be in the forefront when it comes to covering development in media and communications, has never written about blogs until today (confirmed by my previous research about media coverage for blogs in Sweden). And still they manage to sound like this is old news. Resumé writes “finally advertisers get the point with blogs” and “millions of people around the world have gotten the point about blogs…”. Well, we, the millions who already got it, welcome Resumé to the blogosphere. It was about time.