Posts Tagged ‘Danish media’
Danish TV 2 to cut Internet Explorer 6 support
Following in the footsteps of 37 Signals Danish broadcaster TV 2 will cut their support for Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 on the tv2.dk website.
TV 2 developer Martin Gausby has announced this in his Twitter stream:
Today we start to inform the users of Internet Explorer 6, that they should upgrade their browsers to IE7 or get Firefox http://xrl.us/osepc
Users of Internet Explorer 6 will see a gray box on the tv2.dk website telling them that their browser is outdated and will no longer be supported. They are told to upgrade to Internet Explorer 7 or switch to Firefox, the open source alternative.
In my view this is a good move by TV 2. IE6 has long been a thorn in the eye of web developers who need to design especially custom CSS for the browser, since it sometimes has its own way of interpreting the code.
Now it'll be interesting to see whether or not other Danish media websites will do the same.
Related postsTags: Browsers, Danish media, Media, Software
Lesson of the day: Open source software rocks
As those of you following me on Twitter (I'm larskjensen) may know, we recently launched our WordPress powered blog community.
For those of you who don't know what WordPress is (although you should! :-)) it's the state of the art blogging software - and it's open source and free of cost. For our blog community we use the multi user version of WordPress, the aptly named WordPress MU.
Well, we've had some problems with some of the themes of an older date. The CSS in them acts quite weird - most often in Internet Explorer 7…
Anyhow, I have an email correspondance with one of our bloggers and I tell him that either I'll try to find an update for the theme or otherwise we'll have to phase out the theme. But before I can do anything he has written me another mail telling me that there is an updated version of the theme and he also gives me the link.
So I translate the theme (by adding the _e and __ WordPress translation functions to .php files of the theme) and update my already existing language file with the new theme, upload it and email our most friendly user to tell him that the new theme is now online for him to test.
All this just to point out one thing: Open. Source. Software. Rules. :-)
PS: This blog is running on the single blog version of WordPress - of course.
Related postsTags: Blogging, Blogs, Danish media, Open source, PHP, Social web, wordpress
YouTube is number 5 in Denmark
The Danish Union of Internet Media (FDIM) has recently conducted a quite thorough survey on the Danes online behaviour in January 2008.
Number 1 is Google (surprise surprise!) with 15 millions visits(!) in January. But what's interesting, for me anyway, is that YouTube is at number 5! YouTube had b little over 1.1 million Danish visits in January, which is more that any of the online newspapers here in Denmark.
The only ones to beat YouTube (apart from Google, of course) are:
- Krak (a service which lets you look up addresses and phone numbers and view the results on a map (think white and yellow pages))
- DR.dk (the Danish Broadcoast Association, which gets a lot of visits, apart from the news service, from people viewing the online TV-guides, listening to internet radio, downloading podcasts and reading more about the various shows)
- TV2 (the largest private television channel in Denmark, which (just like DR) gets a lot of visits from people viewing other things than news and watching online television (their main product) - TV2 also offers online games)
So considering all of this, I think it's a fairly good result for YouTube. I for one use YouTube all of the time, sometimes just for listening to music. I had no idea that the service is that popular in this country, though.
My good friend Kim has the entire list [in Danish] (taken from Danish media news site MediaWatch) [also in Danish]. You can download the entire report from FDIM [it's a PDF file and yes, it's also in Danish].
Related postsTags: Danish media, Denmark, Google, Internet newspapers, News sites, Video, YouTube
Second Life = Word?
One of Denmark's largest online newspapers Politiken has an article about the riots against Front Nationale in Second Life.
The first pragraph:
Det kunne være den perfekte verden.
For selv om mennesker kloden over bruger oceaner af tid i de virtuelle verden 'Second Life', er den trods alt kun et computerprogram. Lige som Word.
Translated into Danish:
It could be the perfect world.
Even though people around the globe use oceans of time in the virtual world Second Life, it is despite all just a computer program. Just like Word
Could we just take a second (life? :)) to make it absolutely clear, that Second Life is nowhere like Microsoft's Word?
The Second Life CLIENT software is a software program…like Word, I guess. But seriously. This is 2007, I highly doubt that you have to make parallels to programs like Word to understand, what Second Life is about. Even when it comes to the larger news services that cover a wide palette of readers.
If you don't know what Second Life is, Wikipedia is your friend.
Oh, and you can read more about the conflict in Second Life at New World Notes.
Related postsTags: Danish media, Second Life, Social web
Meeting about the socialization in Danish media
My friend, inspirator and former colleague Kim Elmose has attended a meeting regarding the socialization of the Danish media, where the readers are suddenly also the writers.
He has done two live-bloggish posts from the event. Both are in Danish, so you have to understand our language to make anything out of it :-)
Post 1: Gå-hjem-møde: Læserne skriver nyhederne - 4 cases
Post 2: Gå-hjem-møde 2: Panel-debat om Læserne skriver nyhederne
Related postsTags: Danish media, Social web, Web 2.0