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August 2009
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Wikinomics: Starting the Comparison of NBA teams on Twitter
Denis Hancock at Wikinomics begins the breakdown of statiscial analysis of each team’s use of Twitter. Overall, if you look at the list it is pretty predictable – successful teams (and those in bigger markets) tend to have more followers, unsuccessful ones (and those in smaller markets) less followers. For example, after LA and Orlando, the [...]
Dan Levy/TSB: SI Forcing the AFCA’s Hand With Coaches’ Poll Ballot Requests
From Levy at the Sporting Blog: The process by which two teams are chosen to compete for the BCS National Championship is both convoluted and secretive by design. There’s one part computer score… Then there’s the Harris Poll… Last comes the USA Today Coaches poll, which year after year is where most of the shadiness lies. In the [...]
Blogs With Balls Radio Premieres on the Joe Sports Fan Radio Network
Welcome to the premier of Blogs With Balls Radio on the Joe Sports Fan Radio Network. From JSF: Over the past few weeks on our regular installment of the “JoeSportsFan Show”, we teased the fact that big news was coming down the podcasting pipeline here on JoeSportsFan.com. Yesterday, you saw the initiation of this news as our [...]
NYT: F.T.C. to Look at News Industry’s Future
From the New York Times: Just about everyone, from the general public to news executives, has an opinion about the future of journalism. Now, the Federal Trade Commission is stepping into the debate. The commission is planning two days of workshops in December — titled “From Town Criers to Bloggers: How Will Journalism Survive the Internet Age?” [...]
WaPo: Fans Cannot Be Involved in Recruiting, but the Line Blurs
As more and more fan-based, school-specific blogs are being granted similar access and credentialling as members of the traditional media, they are radically changing the role fan-publishers are taking in the college recruiting process, and, in turn, creating headaches for NCAA and school compliance officers. NCAA rules explicitly state that fans of teams cannot be involved [...]
Sports Networker: Before Shaq on Twitter, There Was Gilbert
From SportsNetworker.com‘s Sam Taggert: “Shaq gets a lot of love for being the pioneer athlete in this space, but people fail to acknowledge the one who came before him and all other athletes: Gilbert Arenas.” Read the full article here.
NYT: Leagues See Bloggers in the Bleachers as a Threat
Today from the Old Grey Lady: The Southeastern Conference, home to some of the nation’s most prominent and lucrative university athletic programs, has issued rules in the past week prohibiting fans from distributing photographs or video of its games in real time for commercial use. Like a growing number of pro and college teams nationwide, the [...]
@kerryrhodes Talks Twitter and Social Media on Yahoo!
NY Jet Kerry Rhodes was one of the earliest higher profile athletes to actively contribute and engage on Twitter. Today he contributed to Yahoo! Sports Shutdown Corner and talked about his use, it’s growth in popularity amongst his fellow athletes and the reception it’s gotten from the media, league and team.
Lewis Howes: Sports Networker
Last week, author, entrepreneur and former college standout/Arena League player Lewis Howes hosted his Sports Networker Launch Party in NYC that featured ESPN founder Bill Rassmussen, and was attended by “Sports Lawyers, sports social networking platforms, professionals athletes, NBA,MLB, NHL, NFL league and team employees, AFL, agencies, marketing firms, CBS, Madison Square Garden, minor league [...]
BwB Sponsor SB Nation Continues to Strengthen Stable of High Profile Bloggers
New additions includes BwB 1.0 superstar and 2.0 moderator Spencer Hall. From SB Nation’s Chris Mottram: “Spencer Hall, aka Orson Swindle, will join us from Sporting News, where he wrote regularly for The Sporting Blog over the past year and a half. Spencer not only brings his wealth of talent to SB Nation, but also his superb [...]