Hi V! Was planning on running down, but we were looking at houses all day today. We're gonna make a quick run down there tomorrow, but alas... no Tom and Veronica. :-( Well... maybe next year!
- Hipp
from IM
Any chance you remember stopping by a tee shirt booth in the dealers room called Off World Designs? My daughter was working there. Just one of those 6 degree things.
- Darryl Baker
U.S. v. Comprehensive Drug Testing, Inc., No. 05-10067 (8-26-09) (en banc). This is the en banc appeal related to the steroids in baseball litigation. The box... - http://circuit9.blogspot.com/2009...
Cincinnati Begnals Wide Receiver Chad Ochocinco promised us he’d tweet from the end zone at some point during this year’s football season. While we’re only in preseason, Ochocinco is already causing waves around the Web, not by tweeting after a touchdown (yet), but by kicking an extra point in last night’s exhibition game against the New England Patriots. The move wasn’t a typical Ochocinco publicity stunt, but rather a seemingly necessary move, as the Bengals regular kicker Shayne Graham, was injured. Here’s the video: Johnson, who is becoming one of the NFL’s loudest voices in social media, decided to take to UStream after the game to interact with fans. Tags: chad ochocinco, football, nfl, twitter, video
Yesterday, we reported on the Southeastern Conference’s (SEC) ban of social media at sporting events. The policy, which mandated that fans not “disseminate … any account, description, picture, video, audio, reproduction or other information concerning the Event,” drew sharp criticism from our commenters and around the blogosphere. It appears that the SEC has come around, at least somewhat, and issued revisions to their guidelines for fans. While video will still be off-limits, it looks like tweets, Facebook status updates, and even pictures will be acceptable, so long as they are for non-commercial use. The new policy reads: “No Bearer may produce or disseminate in any form a “real-time” description or transmission of the Event (i) for commercial or business use, or (ii) in any manner that constitutes, or is intended to provide or is promoted or marketed as, a substitute for radio, television or video coverage of such Event. Personal messages and updates of scores or other brief...
see the camcopter bellow ... that is the future .. player cams, player mikes ....referee voice direct friendfeed and twitter feeds ...... public twitts and ffeeds displayed on the big board .... the real time word cloud, to get a sense of what people are saying ...... players, though, forbidden to tweet during games ...as said previously, they might violently bump into each other, potentially ruining the equipment
- Petr Buben