Comments on: YouSports

By: tom brandt

tom brandt — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:46:02 +0000

What joe C said. Grrrr….

By: Vods.mobi » Agent Zero and the SportsTubosphere

Vods.mobi » Agent Zero and the SportsTubosphere — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 04:55:50 +0000

[...] Jeff Jarvis points out the Guardian (reg.) report that the Chelsea Football Club has cut a YouTube deal. It may be the first football club to dive into YT, but the NBA’s Washington Wizards, for one, have already staked a claim, most famously (302,000 views) through that Gilbert Arenas-DeShawn Stevenson shoot-out. (Alas, no footage of the recurring Hayward-Thomas fisticuffs.) In Sunday’s Washington Post, Michael Lee makes the case that Wizard star Arenas is an operator in the disaggregated media world: …[H]e jettisoned his agent in September and, unlike most of the game’s elite, lacks a major corporate-driven marketing engine behind him. [...]

By: joe c

joe c — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 18:08:48 +0000

I debated about leaving this comment, but will because maybe Jeff will care to give his thoughts on the matter.

** flame on **

I freakin’ *hate* newspaper sites like the Guardian that make you register to read the stories.

** flame off **

-JC

ps. I’m a Zadi fan, too.

By: Amelia

Amelia — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 18:10:30 +0000

Great move from Chelsea - just posted about the fact that for me the brilliance of YouTube is not all about watching kittens fall into toilets, but about watching great “stuff” in bite-sized chunks from around the world - whether it is a song on American Idol, a goal (though preferably not a Chelsea one) or a clip from a TV news show

By: Zadi Diaz

Zadi Diaz — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 10:06:58 +0000

washington d.c. and npr: part I

I’m in Washington D.C. and let me say - it’s amazingly cold. COLD I tell you. On my midday trek toward Pennsylvania Avenue, I swore my fingers had become completely frostbitten. Thank goodness not. Just temporarily dead in relation…