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Yesterday we held local elections in Denmark. Always a super exciting day where people come out to vote on the issues that matter the most in their everyday lives. While ideology seldom gets a lot of room in the local election campaigns, the ingredients are still there to pit people against eachother in order to… Continue reading The ‘Worldview’ biz model
The other day I saw a survey that claimed that 44% of all Danes would like to know their neighbors better. In a globalized world, where we’re so busy figuring out when and how to travel somewhere next, this is somewhat a mind-boggling number. You may say that you’re global. But the fact of the… Continue reading Hyperlocal belonging
Amazon is reportedly looking to acquire MGM Studios for close to 9B USD. That’s a lot of money to fork up just to get in with a shout at becoming the next James Bond. You have got to hand it to Jeff Bezos: When he does something, he does it in style. Neither shaken nor… Continue reading Bond. Jeff Bezos Bond
It’s been in the cards for ages, but now it’s official: Internet Explorer (IE) will be retired in June 2022. Most people have long since moved on. And for good reason(s). But many businesses still have some legacy tools that for some silly reason loves IE more than anything else. They will now need to… Continue reading Rest In Peace, IE
Lars K. Jensen from Willmore does an excellent newsletter on innovation within digital media called ‘Products in Publishing’. If you haven’t signed up for it yet, I suggest that you go and do it - even if you’re not in media. Because the way that he uses data and analysis to inform his thinking is… Continue reading Data is subscription gold
Sometimes your old education comes in handy. The other day I helped flesh out 3 very different angles to an upcoming news release depending on the angle and tonality the team behind wishes to pursue, when they go live. In doing so it (yet again) dawned on me how powerful the right wording can be;… Continue reading An education in truth
The new Super Follower feature from Twitter looks super interesting; the ability for a user to offer special perks to followers, who choose to pay a monthly fee. One thing, we should immediately be asking ourselves: What took Twitter so long? Tiered access and perks is nothing new at all. Lots of different services have… Continue reading Twitter finally makes a move
If governments were so intent on getting tech platforms to support quality journalism, they should be approaching the matter in an entirely different way. First of all they should put a revenue tax on advertising at the source of the income, ie a VAT kind of tax albeit small they place on advertisers, when they… Continue reading Regulating media tech right