About BetaTales
BetaTales is a blog about our digital world – and how it affects the media and our lifestyle.
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 have worked in various positions at the Norwegian media company Aftenposten since 1993, including periods as Asia correspondent, assistant managing editor, news reporter and assignment editor. Until recently I was in charge of developing Aftenposten’s travel web site, which was named “Niche web site of the year” in Norway in 2009.
I now have the position as digital media strategist, trying to identify new opportunities for Norway’s greatest news site.
I have a great interest in web trends and how they influence media companies. This blog is an attempt to write about some of these issues.
BetaTales is a private experimental project and not affiliated with Aftenposten. 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