Disney Reigns In Online Production Unit

Had the movie "Pocahontas" never been released, my life would be pretty much unchanged, and that's the case for a lot of Disney stuff.  But by delaying the debut of an online production unit called Stage 9, the company appears to have held up some very interesting shows.

ESPN To Cover Gaming

I might let you call me a prophet, a little earlier than expected. I kid, I kid, and I was kidding in March 2006 when I asked readers not to call me that for another 20 years. It wasn't too hard to predict, thanks to a Microsoft patent about it, and in 2008 comes the next stage: ESPN's coverage of professional video gaming.

NCAA Live Blogging, No More

I searched for the term “sports blog” and received over 30 million results on any given search engine and received over 24 thousand results on Technorati. But the real question is why am I searching for a sports blog anyways?

Tracking Blog Effectiveness

There are a lot of data points that can be meaningful for tracking blog effectiveness. That is, tracking what happens when visitors arrive at and engage with your blog content. It really comes down to the purpose of your blog. Metrics for a blog that’s focused on making a web site more search engine friendly by adding crawlable content and attracting links is quite different…