The headquarters of Icelandic newspaper Morgunbladid are too big and have been advertised for rent in part or in whole.

The building on the outskirts of Reykjavik houses editorial staff, production staff, the advertising department and the offices of Morgunbladid and is 4,000 square metres in size, RUV reports. The advertisement states that the premises could be available to be moved into at short notice. Read the full story

An interview conducted with Independence Party leader Bjarni Benediktsson for Iceland’s Morgunbladid newspaper this autumn remains unpublished because Benediktsson was unhappy with the journalist’s treatment of him. Read the full story

Icelandic newspaper DV claims that some 10,000 subscribers have given up rival paper, Morgunbladid since former Prime Minister and central bank manager David Oddsson was appointed editor. Read the full story

The parliamentary president’s committee has decided in a meeting on Wednesday that it will terminate its Morgunbladid subscription for MPs. The Icelandic parliament has, up until now, paid for each Member of Parliament to receive a daily copy of the newspaper. Read the full story

Former Icelandic Prime Minister and head of the Central Bank of Iceland David Oddsson has been hired as the new editor of Morgunbladid, the country’s most influential and widely bought newspaper. Former Vidskiptabladid editor Haraldur Johannessen will be co-editor and Sigurdur Mar Jonsson will take over at Vidskiptabladid, Iceland’s business and financial newspaper. Read the full story

As the internet’s importance as a communications medium continues to grow, it is becoming increasingly important for companies and organisations to keep a close eye on their online reputations. Read the full story

The Australian investor Steve Cosser and his Dutch associate Everhard Vissers have made an offer for Arvakur, the company behind Iceland’s biggest paid-for newspaper, Morgunbladid. They have also shown interest in making an offer for the still-incomplete Icelandic National Concert and Conference Centre, Frettabladid reports. Read the full story

Iceland’s biggest newspaper, Frettabladid is distributed free-of-charge seven days a week to people’s homes. It is entirely reliant on advertising revenue and has been suffering along with all other media in the current downturn in the advertising market. Read the full story

According to MBL.is, the summer of 2008 is the best since 1944 and probably the best summer since weather records began. According to Trausti Jonsson, meteorologist, there is little difference between the weather now and the heat wave of the 1940’s.

The record for the highest temperature at Thingvellir (Parliament Fields) has been broken today, the old record stood at 29.0 degrees Celsius but today it reached a whopping 29.3 degrees according to official measurements from the Icelandic Meteorological Office.

The weather forecast for the next 24 hours indicates that the high temperatures may continue.

Around 300 people attended this year‘s RIMC Internet marketing conference held in Reykjavik, Iceland.

The annual event, which was held at the Hilton Reykjavik Nordica on Friday, saw a host of Icelandic and international speakers come to discuss the latest trends in Internet marketing.

Icelandic Minister of Commerce, Björgvin Sigurdarson, opened the one-day conference with the first speech, which was then followed by the head of IndexTools web analytics software, Dennis Mortensen.

This year’s conference was held on the tenth anniversary of the founding of mbl.is – the online edition of the Icelandic national paper, Morgunbladid. Olafur Nielsen, expert from Morgunbladid’s Internet department, addressed delegates on how the online publication has benefitted from using IndexTools analytics software for its website.

Delegates also got the opportunity to network with peers and meet some of the industry‘s leading figures in Internet marketing and advertising. An expo also took place alongside the conference, featuring a number of Icelandic businesses and their products and services.

The conference was organised by Morgunbladid in co-operation with Nordic eMarketing, a leading Internet marketing company in Scandinavia and the UK. Kristjan Mar Hauksson, Director of Nordic eMarketing, said he was very pleased with the increase in number of delegates and looked forward to “an even bigger event next year”. He added that there was also a strong possibility of an Internet marketing event to be held in Mumbai, India later this year.