Words by Maria

If you look a bit to the right, there is a little badge about Sweden Social Webcamp.

SSWC is a camp for people who love the Internet more or less. It all started last year with SSWC09. I would’ve loved to be there but my brother turned 30 and I couldn’t let him down so I went to Helsingborg, while the rest of Helsingborg (at least the Helsingborg I know of) went to Tjärö. A little island in the south of Sweden where over 250 swedish web geeks had gathered up with tents among the sheeps for an unconference that has become the most talked about among swedes on the social web. The week after I listed my favorite blog posts about SSWC09. When reading about the weekend it felt like it was magic and I knew that I just had to go there next year. So… Today at 19.00 the tickets for SSWC10 was released and since I had set the alarm at both my google calendar and my iPhone I was on my toes for a ticket. My Twitterfeed was filled with people being on their toes as well, a monday evening has never had that much activity on Twitter before. And you know what? I got a ticket! 600 geeks had registered their interest for the camp and 250 tickets were released. So tonight I am a really happy geek :)

See you in august geeks and tweeps!

It’s been a week since I posted last weeks, worth to read articles or blog posts. During the last week there are three bloggers who have distinguished themselves a little extra in my eyes. So I would like to share some of their posts. I post them chronologically.

• Twitter is my living room, Facebook my kitchen… – Erik Starck about how he uses different social networks. This one is older than a week but I hadn’t read it before and I can’t agree more so I had to post it here.
• Domen slår mot det fria Internet – Very good written about when the Swedish court forced TPB’s isp to close the site by Mikael Zackrisson.
• This is the Internet: Sweden Social Web Camp – I know I posted a lot of sswc posts last week but this one is so brilliantlty written by Erik Starck that I just have to post it.
• När jag debatterade med Monique Wadsted – After Mikael Zackrissons post he was invited to a debate in Swedish TV4, read what he writes about it here.
• daßlog papier – Sofia Mirjamsdotter aka Mymlan about her blog paper project. Pretty nice idea I must say. Makes good blog posts live longer.
• Birro gör en Mogi – Sofia Mirjamsdotter again about Marcus Birros parody of Mogi

Now gogo read the bloggers who are more creative than me.

I have read some good blog posts and articles during the last week that I want to share with you. Most of them are in Swedish so bare with me Danes, Dutchmen and Aussies, (I don’t know but maybe I have readers from other countries as well?)

• Aftonbladet är ingen martyr – de glömde göra sitt jobb – Emanuel Karlsten about this weeks  most discussed article in Sweden.
• Lider du av uppdateringssjukan? – Sandra Carlsson about Social Update Anxiety.
• The Pirate Bay Taken Offline By Swedish Authorities – Enigmax at TorrentFreak about when the Stockholm district court tried to take TPB offline.
• “Skriv ett hyllningstal till Marcus Birro (utan sarkasm och elakheter). Han är också en skön kille… – Alex Schulman about Marcus Birro, without being mean for once. If he’s serious that is.

Last weekend was also the weekend when sswc took place. Since I’m not old and experienced when it comes to  social media I didn’t even think of going there the first time I read about it. But the week before the camp I felt like I wanted to go there as well (but since my brother turned 30 I probably would’ve had problems to go anyway). Here are some selected posts about the camp that gives a hint about what seemed to be a very successful weekend.

• Min blogg hamnade i tidning – #sswc dag 1,5- Emanuel Karlsten was blogging live from the camp
• Sweden Social Web Camp – Ännu ett fantastiskt möte – Joakim Jardenberg was looking back at a fantastic weekend when he came home.
• Tältmöte = Kärlek – Sofia Mirjamsdotter aka Mymlan is writing her own reflections shortly and linking to other posts about the camp.
• SSCW – Social aktivitet och statistik – Fredrik Stenbeck posted the statistics about the activity on the web during the camp.