How would you feel if I were to say the opening hours for commenting on this blog's posts are from 9am to 3pm? Recently I came across a link to this screengrab from Norwegian news site Agderposten.no (via @prinsessemarte ),...
Topics: Media

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Several hundred gingerbread houses were smashed to pieces as vandals broke into a tent harbouring "the world's biggest gingerbread town" in downtown Bergen last night. Outrage over the havoc wrought by "the gingerbread vandals"...
Topics: Food and Drink

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Kaupthing was the poster child for confusing audacity and financial nous with reckless growth and easy credit, says Investoralist on Twitter, and links to this brilliant must-see video. Blogger Ultimi Barbarorum describes it thus: "Mildly tragic...
Topics: Finance

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On the face of it this sounds like a truly miraculous story amidst all the current doom and gloom of the newspaper industry: Danish local Randers Amtsavis is unable to deal with the rush of new subscribers, reports Journalisten.dk. Almost...
Topics: Media

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Crowdsourcing is fascinating business. After Wikileaks recently published top secret information about loans made by Icelandic bank Kaupthing just before the country's economy went belly-up, Informationen.dk interviewed one of Wikileaks'...
Topics: Journalism

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