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      • Another Update: The NBA makes money off Twitter
        03/29/09
        A real blog entry is on the way soon, but I had to post this in the meantime. Mark Cuban, a guy I said should be the NBA's example on how to create publicity through blogging, was just fined $25,000 for comments he posted on his Twitter feed about the calls refs made during the Mavericks 103-10

      • Update: Twittering's all the rage
        03/22/09
        Just read this on ESPN and had to share because I think it validates my previous post. I especially appreciated this paragraph:

        Though Villanueva promised not to tweet again during a game, he did question whether there's much difference between a player taking a few seconds to do a t

      • Basketball won't go to the birds, at least the online ones
        03/18/09
        When I first saw this headline on ESPN.com, I thought, "Not again." I thought the NBA, or at least the Milwaukee Bucks, were following the NCAA's lead in banning reporters from liveblogging games. I wondered how the NBA could misunderstand the ways people use Twitter so much

      • Digging holes with Facebook
        03/15/09
        Gather 'round young 'uns, and I'll tell you a story. It's about the time before everyone was on Facebook, about the time when you had to have a .edu e-mail address to get in. Your nerdy storyteller was a budding Internet researcher at the time and he happened to be a grad student

      • Anonymous complaining online: Free Speech at its Finest
        03/03/09
        I've had a string of bad luck lately with computers, so much so that I want to shout from the housetops. My beloved Macbook of three years died again and needs its second new logic board, so I've gave up on it. I bought an HP from Circuit City at a discounted rate, but when I got it home,

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