Are you wondering why the blog is looking weird, or changing looks back and forth right now? Well, it’s because the site it’s under redesign and I prefer to do it in live mode in order to fully evaluate the designs I’m considering. E-mail me at markus (a) vampyr.se, or write a comment to this post if you think something

Good morning! Starting today, the blog will focus more or less completely on the development in media generally, and the business side of things specifically. At the same time, I’m renaming the blog to Marketing Media, and opening it up for others – both permanent and guest bloggers. Are you interested in sharing your thoughts on the future of media?

The Fall of Entrepreneurship? Well, I’m of course speaking of the season and not the verb. From September 1, I have been working with entrepreneurship at the Drivhuset foundation here in Sweden. My task has been to coach young entrepreneurs, improve the PR at the universities and to work with the national social media presences. With one day left until

Exactly one year ago, I blogged about the fact that Swedes increasingly googled for “Google”. Today, the web dominatrix of California again published their most sought after words in Sweden. I am happy to say: “Google” was not on the top-10 list anymore. Oh joy, oh happiness. There’s hope for good ol’ Sweden after all. Last year: “Swedes google for

I wonder what some of these employers and recruiters are thinking about when it comes to some of the available positions. For instance, why do you prioritize experience before skill in creative jobs like programming or design? You see it pretty much each and every time there’s a job out in primarily inhouse web development, marketing and communication. What am

NBA-players seem to live in a world of their own. A world in which many of them is the emperor of their own kingdom. Today’s example: Dwyane Wade, the Miami Heat superstar who announced on Twitter (@DWadeOfficial) that he’s “shedding his nickname Flash” as a sign of his maturity. Mhm. Yeah. Well, isn’t the thing about nicknames that you don’t

There are three words in the English language that all spring from the same root. Three words that can be used to figure out if the person you are talking to is the real deal or a fraud. They are my three English favourite words. Effectiveness: Are you getting the most out of your resources? Efficacy: Do you [have the

This must be the weirdest thing I have ever read. A high school in the US apparently sacked a cheerleader who refused to cheer a man who raped her during a game. It would be too much to say that I wish that the same people who made these kind of judgements ends up in the same situation as the

We are still in Turkey for the 2010 FIBA World Championship, watching the best basketball being played. So far, my absolute favourites have been Lithuania, Spain, Turkey and Slovenia. The US? Sure, they are athletic… but they don’t play basketball, they play one-on-one hoops… Anyway, here’s a videoblog we (#OviFIBA) recorded the other day. An expert’s view on the FIBA

As I’ve blogged about before, I will spend the upcoming two weeks in Turkey to watch and write about the FIBA World Championships 2010 (basketball) for Nokia/WOMWorld. Just arrived here this morning. The blog posts are available in Nokia’s basketball app, which can be downloaded to their phones from the Ovi Store. But of course I will both blog here