Category — Opinion

I have been wondering quite a bit about how come that so many website - and news websites are especially bad at this - look so disinterested and alike. Like the persons, who created them, just couldn’t care less.

It seems like a lot of the times, there’s an overall plot missing. A big picture. And this made me think: A good site is a lot like a puzzle. [Read more →]

The web is filled with crappy content and useless applications. It’s a garbage dumb it would take a lot more than Wall*E to clean, even if it got hundreds of years to get the job done. There’s just too little meaning.

There’s too little of the stuff that really matters to real people. Too few applications that truly make a difference. But luckily there are some things out there which are pointing in the right direction. And those deserve to be mentioned. [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 →]

A couple of weeks ago I cancelled the print paper subscription, I have been very attached to for years. The paper in question had huge distribution problems, and not getting the paper for a period of time convinced me that there really was no reason to hang onto a product as surplus to requirements as a newspaper.

Now, why do I think it’s surplus? Well, basically because it’s not good enough for me to want to hang onto a subscription. If you don’t feel a deep need to hang on to something, it’s basically surplus. But what could move the newspaper away from this position? [Read more →]

You would have thought that the movie industry had watched the music industry self-implode and learned their lesson. Alas, nothing seems to indicate that. Far from it actually.

A new initiative driven by Sony Pictures bears stark evidence towards this. They are hoping to rally most of the industry around an Open Market to combat conflicting formats, secure rights management etc. All instead of doing the only real tenable thing: To embrace the market. [Read more →]

It’s ever so funny to see how companies, consultants and media agencies all advocate social media as just another platform to get a marketing message out. Personally I can’t think of something much more narrowminded than that.

Why? Because social media is so much more. It’s the embodiment of how the internet has become a ubiquitous utility just like water, electricity, gas and so on. And it should be treated with the appropriate respect. [Read more →]