About BetaTales
BetaTales is a blog exploring digital media trends- in particular how it affects the news media.
I am an experienced journalist who tries to grasp the powerful forces influencing my business and the life of our readers.
Yet analyzing our digital world is not an exact science – and never will be. Thus this blog is bound to be permanently in beta, explaining the name BetaTales. I am exploring, asking questions, searching for a road forward – but always with a question mark attached.
More about myself
My name is John Einar Sandvand. I worked in various positions at the Norwegian media company Aftenposten from 1993 to 2010, including periods as Asia correspondent, assistant managing editor, news reporter and assignment editor. Since 2006 I have concentrated on digital media. I was in charge of developing Aftenposten’s travel web site, which was named “Niche web site of the year” in Norway in 2009. Later I worked as digital media strategist, trying to identify new opportunities for Norway’s greatest news site.
In June 2010 I started in a new position as editor at Media Norway Digital (“Media Norge” for the natives …). Media Norway is the owner of four of the major media houses in Norway: Aftenposten, Bergens Tidende, Stavanger Aftenblad and Fædrelandsvennen. I will be heading a department responsible for developing joint digital services for the four web sites. Together they see around 2 million unique visitors every week, which is significant in a country with 4,5 million people.
BetaTales is a private experimental project and not affiliated with Aftenposten and Media Norway. On my spare time I also run the web site Asia Observer, a portal to Asia with news, guide and community as well as the blog Cambodia Tales.
And yes, of course you can follow me on Twitter!
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Thanks for linking to my site. So cool to learn about yours. You have some good stuff here.
– Gina
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Hjertelig takk for strålende blogg om digitale medier!
Men, huffa meg, John. I dag har du tillatt en fryktelig laaaaang spørreundersøkelse på bloggen din. Den er på mer enn ti sider med spørsmål som åpenbart er myntet på nordamerikansk publikum. Ikkje bra.
Vegard,
Your are right. The questionaire – from crowdscience.com – is just too long. I have removed it now – as hardly anyone managed to complete it.
Thanks for your kindwords about the blog!
John
Hello,
I was wondering if you accept guest post for your blog. If you do, I would like to submit a few. You can see a sample of my work at LaptopComputers.org under the author James Mowery. I’ve also written for several high-profile blogs like Mashable, Performancing, and CMSWire. Thank you for your time.
- James
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