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While this is the same arrogant, obnoxious (Jon Stewart might say, “douchebaggy”) Chris Matthews as always, at least he’s actually right on the facts. (though he’s wrong about Cole)

The real question is why was this no name radio show host on in the first place?

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You’re going to be hearing about us more and more, but today we had our first TV exposure:

More at the official Fanzter blog

Of course, the site blipped from the surge in traffic. Sorry about that. We’ll be better as more of the performance improvements get rolled out.

That’s all I got right now. More on the official Fanzter/Coolspotters blog later today, including the video.

4:49 pm | leave a comment

Coolspotters is live to the world! Check it out, add some content, give us some feedback in the forums (link at the bottom of the page).

So far, things are going well. We’ve got lots of people signing up, adding content, and even more just browsing around checking stuff out.

The “for most of you” in the title is just that we pointed “coolspotters.com” at our actual site instead of the placeholder site we had. That change takes a little time to show up at your ISP, so for some of you, it may not have flipped over. It should by tonight.

4:04 pm | 1 comment

Hmmm, Coolspotters. Like the name, like the idea. Wish I had joined that startup. Oh, wait…. :)

9:02 am | leave a comment

Well written overview of the advantages of Git for development. I’m keeping an eye on this for now, but there’s one random thought that comes to mind: Linus Torvalds is a really, really smart guy. First, he has shepherded Linux, and now another of his “itches” has turned into a widely used and enthusiastically supported project. No, Git isn’t as successful as Linux yet. But imagine if it is? How many people do this twice?

2:46 am | leave a comment

Interesting… I hope that these specs are right.

4:10 pm | 1 comment

Not really about the primary, per se, and an interesting perspective into the use of technology by the different campaigns. I think they’re a bit unfair to John Edwards. After all, I don’t think people really believe Edwards is sitting there with his blackberry or whatever and using Twitter. He’s got a staff, and when the campaign ends, the staff goes on to other things. It’s not surprising that the page hasn’t updated.

1:25 pm | leave a comment

This is an unusual story. Wonder how we would react if we suspected agents of the Chinese government set off a small bomb at a U.S. factory? A DDOS attack isn’t quite the same, but whoever is behind this attack is interfering with a U.S. business. That seems significant to me.

12:01 am | leave a comment

Neat stuff.

8:57 pm | leave a comment

This is a big deal and the future. Surprised more companies haven’t joined Amazon on this bandwagon (big companies, I mean, not smaller ones… lots of grid providers out there).

1:53 am | leave a comment

The heat maps on this site are really interesting. I played around with the West Hartford/Hartford area. Things aren’t as bad as they are in some other cities. Check out California… holy crap.

6:28 pm | leave a comment

Excellent news. This is a project I’ve been watching for a long time, as it was the approach I chose when I was experimenting with a FatMixx IM bot. The release of 1.0 is a big step for the project. Congrats to the POE guys on reaching this milestone.

You can find out more about POE at the project’s web site.

12:34 am | leave a comment

I just received my OLPC laptop and I have to say, I’m impressed. It’s a great little device, if slow compared to our modern computers. The networking components do a great job and the map of where access points are in relation to the laptop is a neat feature. Love it.

1:30 am | leave a comment

That’s a really interesting idea.

2:18 pm | leave a comment

Yahoo has made a pretty significant change to their fantasy baseball game. I’m not sure if this is new for Yahoo (I didn’t play football there), but the new interface is pretty nice. All drag-and-drop YUI goodness. Here’s a screenshot of me fixing my roster:

DND baseball roster

It’s pretty well executed. The yellow rows are the only slots that Fielder is eligible for, and the symbol on the far right conveys whether I’m dropping the player in the right slot. More importantly, this will cut down on the cryptic error messages in most fantasy games when you forget to move someone to the bench or accidently put two people in the same slot.

Useful Ajax and a nice addition.

11:32 pm | 1 comment

No one wants to admit it, but those ads *sucked* on top of all of the brand dilution crap. I mean, seriously, ticket arbitrage sites and various supplements were the most common ads and they were never relevant. I say this of all of the ad networks ESPN has used since I started working there until today.

The other part of this, though, is having mature, state-of-the-art systems to manage internal ad runs. This is something that ESPN, through the Walt Disney Internet Group, did well. Medium-sized publishers often end up with ad nets and sponsored link units because they don’t have the kind of smart inventory management that larger companies have.

I have high hopes for self-service tools like Google Ad Manager as a potential way of bridging the branded advertising/genero network idea.

I found this Calacanis’s blog, and he has other advice for online companies. Worth reading, as well as the linked post.

Update: clarified the second paragraph. I lumped in startups because they/we use networks like Adsense, but for different reasons (no ad sales person). The point about infrastructure was about sites that haven’t crossed into the very large group.

10:15 pm | leave a comment