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Installing WP Thesis on Host Gator. Don’t Let Them Fool You!

October 22, 2009

Those stubborn bastards! It took me hours in the live chat with several different support people, a bunch of emails, and even flashing a bit of the famous Walter rage to get the USA-based web hosting service Host Gator to listen. But finally they did. Here’s the story: I was working on a WordPress Thesis [...]

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Finland Becomes The World’s Best Internet Nation!

October 15, 2009

Suddenly my Twitscoop-window started screaming at me with two huge keywords: “Finland” and “Broadband”. What the… I thought and started investigating. Turns out Finland, as the first country in the world, has made broadband access each citizens right by law, and suddenly, BOOM, Finland is on the map as the most progressive country in the [...]

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Case: Elgiganten Stole My Girlfriend’s Computer And Wanted Her To Pay For It (True Story!)

September 24, 2009

Here comes a short story on how not to answer customer complaints, a story that I’ve had the benefit to study closely over the past couple of months. Long story short, my wonderful girlfriend got what we in Sweden call “värdelös service” (worthless service in English) from Elgiganten, a chain of stores selling consumer electronics. [...]

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Do Dictatorships Use Social Media More Effectively Than Corporations?

September 24, 2009

I‘ve done quite a bit of thinking about how the social web will make the world a better place. I’ve written about it, and also lectured about the social web, good, and evil. So when a talk by Evgeny Morozov popped on TED on the topic of how the net aids dictatorships, I was naturally [...]

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Understanding Web Copy and Why it Will Cost You Big Bucks!

September 21, 2009

It was more than eleven years ago that I started my academic career at the M.Sc.-program for media technology at Linköping Institute of Technology. Way back then, the web was completely different, Google didn’t exist (it was actually founded the same year), and ICQ was the name of the game for communication. But it wasn’t [...]

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Lowe Brindfors Copy the Forsman & Bodenfors SEO Mistakes

September 15, 2009

Last week I wrote about how Forsman & Bodenfors don’t understand how the internet works. In absolute terms, the description was fair, but in relative terms, they are not worse than most of the advertising business. Yesterday we got another painfull piece of evidence to that effect. I’m talking about the brand new website of [...]

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Sweden’s Most Swedish Job Completed

August 6, 2009

Today the “Sweden’s most swedish job”-campaign that I was involved in with Syrup Sthlm and Bizkit earlier this year came to an end. Calle Engström, who has been traveling around Sweden blogging, filming and tweeting about his experience, arrived to Stockholm and the STF hostel Af Chapman after posting 82 YouTube-films, 371 blog posts and [...]

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It’s a War Between Conservatives And Innovators

April 18, 2009

I encourage everyone to cut out and frame today’s editorial in DN. It’s one of the strangest editorials I have read in a newspaper of a democratic country, and it will probably be worth money some day. Since it was an editorial, I actually considered cancelling my subscription. But then I read this article, which [...]

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Henrik Pontén To Become The New National Joke?

April 17, 2009

Henrik Pontén of Antipiratbyrån (The Anti Pirate Agency) is quoted saying the following in SvD: “Naturally this [the verdict in the Pirate Bay trial] is a success for all rights owners and creatives…” This quote makes me think of the one where Ines Uusman said (in 1996) that “the Internet is a fad that will [...]

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Think Twice Before Even Dreaming About Using IPRED. Or Associating With Anyone Doing It.

April 5, 2009

We are now starting to see the effects of the Swedish IPRED-law, which states that copyright holders can go after individuals downloading protected content. Apparently, Swedish internet traffic has now dropped by nearly half. And since when is that a good thing? I thought traffic was valuable? I believe that you can never be quite [...]

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