Reseme.se had revealed on Friday that Skånska Dagbladet will start their very own video channel in their website. This for itself is not such an exciting news as most of the online newspapers that I ran into here in Sweden already have video channel that is integrated within their website.

What Resume is also pointing is that not long ago Skånska Dagbladet had laid off 100-150 employees in order to survive the financial crisis that is hurting the Swedish media as well as all the other sectors in the country.

So how come Skånska Dagbladet lay off workers while investing in development? Helt enkelt! (totaly simple). Video platform manufactures revenue. With prerolls and sponsered content you can besure that the investment will quickly cover itself and not only that, it will create more jobs as there will be a need for sales persons and video reporting crews.

BTW - Biving group had published a research about the use of the internet among the top 100 newspapers in USA. 99% of them are using video, 18% of them are using user generated video.

Carina Bergfeldt på Aftonbladet är jamforar Gaza med Dödan havet och skriver om dem resar från svenska och deras semester medan människor i Gaza drabbas av flygavfall.

Hon skriver att detta finns bara 90 km i från Dödan havet människor som liggar i sjukhuset.

Carina, varför körde du så lång? Du kan hitta också människor som drabbas ju 10 km i från Gaza. De bor i Shderot, Ashkelon, Beer Sheva och så vidare.

Försök du att blir lite grann balans… Efter alla är du fortfarande journalist.

Finance ministers around the world cannot askfor a better time to be in their post. Sure, the world economy is facing the hardest crisis ever and you probably havn’t had a good night sleep for the last 6 months, but the people adore you.

In Sweden for example, Andres Borg is gaining more popularity then ever before. It was only a few months ago when Metro published two photos of him from two press conferences, one from September when he was smiling and one from November when he was sweating.

Last months he had another press confrence in which he gave his dark night (mörke natt) prognosis about the Swedish economy in the next 3 years. While the rest of the world is optimistic about 2009, according to Borg the light in the end of the tunnel will come two years later in 2011.

This was what I believe gave him the people’s admiration. Borg showed that he understand the new reality. We all know that it is not our finance ministers who should be put to blame (unless you are American). We just want them to show us that they understand how hard the situation is realy is. We will even believe your pesimistic prognosis that in Sweden’s case is probably meant to get the people to expect the worse while been surprised how the economy had overcame the crisis just in time for parliament elections.

Apparently some of them had already seen it in 2006.

Googles alert of nothing

I always thought that no result is the default ang the alert is when something is actually found.

I just read at Beta alfa (in Swedish) about a new site the helps to overcome boredness. At Uttråkad (once again in Swedish) you will get surfers’ suggestions for breaking your boredness.

Bored?

At first glance you might think that it is a great idea to fight boredness, especially after surfing the net for a few hours. But when I think about it, i don’t see anyone coming up from their chairs and start doing what other had suggested their. They will just seat and read what other wrote. So this site is kind of oxymoron but the bottom line is that while you read it you will not be bored. What happens after that is up to you.