Cleveland Indians open up a “social deck” section for bloggers and tweeters. In this press box for social media types, they get a press kit, media guide and press releases, and they are free to update followers and readers throughout the game just as they normally would. But unlike the traditional press box, they don’t get any access to players or managers. It’s a very cool idea I’d like a few other teams to follow.
House season finale filmed with Canon 5D Mark II. Just like Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride was filmed using a pro-sumer DSLR, so has this years Season finale of House. With more models offering full 1080p HD video output, will we be seeing more of this filming technique?
Business Tips from Van Halen. How Van Halen’s “infamous” no-brown-M&M test acted as a diagnostic, allowing the band to spot potential problems early.
It’s been a while, I gave up a long time ago, basically when I lost my job back in the heady days of 2008. Intermittent posts here and there, but basically… Y’know?
This really hit me a week or so ago when I was at the Ballantyne tweetup when an aquaintance I hadn’t seen before we went to Scotland in January (yeah, we went to Scotland again) asked me if there was a blog post regarding this… My flippant reply was “these hands don’t write” and that is both true and decidedly untrue. I don’t blog (is it still called that?) but I tweet my days away like no-ones business.
So right here, right now, I’m trying to get back into it, whatever it is…
People for Ethical Treatment of Animals has a suggestion for the University of Georgia, which is looking for a replacement for Uga VII, the Georgia Bulldog mascot who died last week in Savannah: PETA says the University should use what it calls an “animatronic dog,” or use a person in a costume. Robo UGA, really? Really? Only if it’s armed with a death ray….
At an industry summit in NYC on Oct. 21, News Corp Deputy Chairman Chase Carey revealed that online video hub Hulu will begin charging users for content as soon as 2010. Sounds like a classic case of cutting it’s nose off to spite it’s face. Just means people will look elsewhere…
In a move mirroring their deal in Britain, ESPN has reached an agreement to televise a package of Premier League matches in the US for 2009-2010 beginning Saturday and through the completion of the season in May. Double the amount of Premier League games I can watch now… All they need now is to reach a deal with the SPL and I’ll be as happy as a pig in shit…
A few day ago I heard the first rumblings of what could be a great spectacle, but now I can’t help feel it’s a recipe for disaster… I am, of course, talking about the proposed Ranges vs. Celtic “friendly” at Fenway Park in Boston.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m so there, but while I read more about Red Sox officials saying how they handle rivalries like Sawks vs. Yanks at Fenway, I’m thinking they are completely unprepared in every sense… Simply put, there is no rivalry in America that comes within a million miles of Rangers vs. Celtic, they claim games like Red Sox vs. Yankees, but at the end of the day, those fans sit together in peace and harmony at both stadiums. Try that with these two teams and you’ll end up with a proverbial bloodbath. It’s not just a game, it’s religious, it’s political, it’s life and death and that’s not just hyperbole.
Fenway Park is a nice baseball stadium, a little cramped, holding only around 37,000, some say it has poor sightlines, and it’s jammed into a city neighbourhood with plenty of bars within spitting distance. How can they possibly try to segregate these fans? In fact how can they even begin to sell tickets publicly? I’d love for it to happen, but there is still a lot of unanswered questions right now.