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"New York would have torn down and rebuilt this stadium at a cost of $800 million to $1.5 billion so that Bernie Madoff and his ilk would feel adequately pampered in their box seats behind home plate. At $250 million, Kansas City's new remodel was by no means cheap but the result is a far better, more crowd-pleasing ballpark than either the new Yankees or Mets stadiums we've heard so much about." - Bill Sodeman from Bookmarklet

I love the stadium now. Going to another game on the 25th. Can't wait. Kingvision rocks. - Ben Hanten

The stadium looks great on TV... but I always thought Kauffman was a nice park. KC did this renovation right. - Bill Sodeman

I think the Rays have a larger share of Florida these days. - Bill Sodeman

LOVE this - Shey, Jamaican of FF

Dallas knows how to party. - Brad Williamson from Bookmarklet

l o l - Shey, Jamaican of FF

"Seth Godin argues the Internet has ended mass marketing and revived a human social unit from the distant past: tribes. Founded on shared ideas and values, tribes give ordinary people the power to lead and make big change. He urges us to do so." - Lasse Johnsen from Bookmarklet

I have always found it interesting that the web which allows us to communicate across borders that were previously uncrossable and on a scale that can distribute our message to millions, has inevitably killed mass impersonal marketing. It has come full circle to the point where the technology itself has matured and taken a back seat to real human interaction. It this interaction that powers tribes, not the technology. - Devlin Dunsmore

"Almost all his life Jack Kerouac had a hobby that even close friends and fellow Beats like Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs never knew about. He obsessively played a fantasy baseball game of his own invention, charting the exploits of made-up players like Wino Love, Warby Pepper, Heinie Twiett, Phegus Cody and Zagg Parker, who toiled on imaginary teams named either for cars (the Pittsburgh Plymouths and New York Chevvies, for example) or for colors (the Boston Grays and Cincinnati Blacks) He collected their stats, analyzed their performances and, as a teenager, when he played most ardently, wrote about them in homemade newsletters and broadsides. He even covered financial news and imaginary contract disputes. During those same teenage years, he also ran a fantasy horse-racing circuit, complete with illustrated tout sheets and racing reports. He created imaginary owners, imaginary jockeys, imaginary track conditions. All these “publications,” some typed, some handwritten and... more... - RAPatton

"And that Kerouac had an active fantasy life hardly distinguishes him from other teenage boys. What’s remarkable about his fantasy games, however, is their elaborateness and detail. The players all have distinct histories and personalities. A single season could last 40 or 50 games, with an All-Star game and a World Series, all painstakingly documented. In an introduction to “Kerouac at... more... - RAPatton

"Kerouac wrote his last baseball account, two mock United Press International reports, in 1958, but he continued to play the game and to tinker with its formulas, making them more realistic, until just a year or two before his death in 1969. His friend the poet Philip Whalen was probably the only one of the Beats who was familiar with this side of Kerouac. “I don’t think the others... more... - RAPatton

"This collage of web 2.0 logos should be pretty familiar to many people by now. It’s been knocking about for a few years, ever since the whole Web 2.0 Koolaid (what’s the British equivalent? Ribena?) started flowing. During that time, I’ve seen it printed out and stuck up on the walls of companies and individuals, appearing in about a million blogs, and it should almost go without saying that this image gets used endlessly in presentations at events about the social web, or web 2.0 technologies, or the changing face of business in the last few years, or design and UX in the new web. So having recently been confronted with this image in a presentation (used as being indicative of current reality), I thought it was time that it was updated. I present these updates without reference to or predicting the demise of web 2.0 or social technologies or anything like that. Just to be a bit more accurate. - Brad Williamson from Bookmarklet

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How many years with Web 2.0 last? - Cristo

"Fifty years ago, in response to the surprise Soviet launch of Sputnik, the U.S. military set up the Advanced Research Projects Agency. It would become the cradle of connectivity, spawning the era of Google and YouTube, of Amazon and Facebook, of the Drudge Report and the Obama campaign. Each breakthrough—network protocols, hypertext, the World Wide Web, the browser—inspired another as narrow-tied engineers, long-haired hackers, and other visionaries built the foundations for a world-changing technology. Keenan Mayo and Peter Newcomb let the people who made it happen tell the story." - Brad Williamson from Bookmarklet

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