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The last year or so I have tried to keep up with the real-estate market online but I must admit that this was a first for me. What the market for selling housing in the online game Second Life look like is beyond my scope. I have heard about gamers selling this kind of stuff on E-Bay and some games have their own c2c solutions, however this is the first time to my knowledge that anyone has tried to sell a virtual home at a Norwegian real-life real-estate site.

Note that there is set a date to when you can get a tour of the house ^^

Funny thing, I wonder how it turn out.

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Originally posted at christoph.no and republished with permission.

My last post was about Dagbladets identity crisis being an elephant wanting to be a giraffe (news-site wanting to be a blog). This post is about the same site and I must say I am horrified!

Today they wrote an article about eight pedophile cases being investigated in Norway. Important news and that’s not the problem. The issue is with the illustration they use on the front page. You may see the screendump yourself here if you dare… I have almost grown up on the net, and I have seen most of the good and bad it has to offers during the years. In that way the images shown should not be that horrifying compared to people getting their brains blown out or suicides and what not, however when Norway’s second largest news site uses this types of images as illustrations I feel my stomach turning in cramps!

And this site was named the “Webpage of the year” (Article at MBL). I’m almost speechless.

Originally posted at christoph.no and republished with permission.

Dagbladet.no has tried a lot. They have also been very innovative over the last years. We all remember Blink. At least I do… Anyhow, they have also done a great job with their commenting functions and that type of moderation, if it could be called moderation. Some journalists have also answered their readers in the commenting sections leading to great discussions. Most notably the “Elden and friends on Facebook” article.

However, now they have also included a Track back function on some of their articles. Do not get me wrong here. I do live by “Sharing is caring”, and diverting traffic to other great recourses is splendid. However, where does this leave Dagbladet.no?

Is it an Elephant wanting to be a Giraffe? (Newspaper wanting to be a Blog). I’m all in on being innovative as online newspapers, but seriously come on! You could do better!

Originally posted at christoph.no and republished with permission.