Category — Analysis

It’s great to see that as we in Denmark discuss the folding of a commodity newspaper and continue to discuss how to keep the print business in business for as long as possible, people in Sweden don’t waste their time but are instead building new and interesting stuff.

I’m talking about Newsmill, an aggregator of news commment in blogformat with a news site design. I have been giving it a slight spin, and I think this is such a great step in the right direction that I’m simply amazed it hasn’t been done in this way before. [Read more →]

Google is releasing a full fledged browser called Chrome. And many pundits already speculate that this will in the end lead to a web-based Google OS in direct confrontation with Microsoft’s dominant Windows platform.

That may all well be, but I still think there are at least three huge challenges, Google has to overcome, before they can even begin to realize their dream of beating Microsoft at their own game. [Read more →]

Following the folding of Denmark’s most widely read newspaper, the freesheet Nyhedsavisen, yesterday it’s only natural to look back and ask two obvious questions.

Could the money that has been lost in the big freesheet war in this small country have been better spent? And if so, how? [Read more →]

Russell Beattie asks when local will truly be on the web? Sometime very soon, my prediction would be.

Local is a very obvious growth area for both media companies and others with an aspiration to form very close ties to the local population of just about every locality you can think of. [Read more →]

The most widely read newspaper in Denmark, Nyhedsavisen, has folded. Late yesterday the staff was informed that extra money for publication won’t be released by the papers lead investor, Skype-investor Morten Lund.

From a reader perspective this is bad news, since Nyhedsavisen was arguably the best of the freesheets. But more than that it signals the end for the broadly distributed newspaper model. [Read more →]

Measurement is great. Combined with goals and objectives, it’s the way to measure when you’ve made it, and the celebrations can start. But the way it’s being done is deeply flawed. Especially in the media space.

KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators) exist everywhere. But they are thought up and run by accountants with little respect to the inherent creative nature of the business the same KPI’s are supposed to support. They are not felt. And as a consequence they don’t work as well as they could have. [Read more →]