Rick Falkvinge, pirate

Swedish Blogosphere and the Ubiquitous Wiretapping Bill

In my last post, I said that the Swedish blogosphere has exploded about this story. I felt I had to qualify that a bit, so here’s a screenshot from the Swedish blogosphere tracker knuff.se, which tracks practically all Swedish blogs.

The format of the screenshot is that one header is one current “main” blog entry for a discussion cloud on a particular topic — which may be the most linked to post in the cloud, or the one with many recent links to it, etc — and all the entries in the same cloud listed below it.

I’ve highlighted the clouds about the Ubiquitous Wiretapping Bill and the FRA with a red dashed line. This should give you some idea of what people are discussing in the blogosphere. (Compare with, for example, a small cloud about the death of Yves-Saint Laurent, which was important enough to make a cloud in the tracker.) Usually, clouds are three to six well-linked posts — not anywhere like this. What’s more, it’s looked like this — FRA, wiretapping, democracy, FRA, wiretapping — pretty much for the last couple of weeks.

Hence my question, why the enormous discrepancy to print media? It might amuse you that we call print media “old media” or gammelmedia in Swedish. In a post yesterday, I asked the question, “has old media gotten demented?”.

Screenshot from knuff.se follows: