http://octagondigitalmedia.com/blog Bridging the Sports Tech Divide Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:07:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Quick post about the new Chris Paul video series (called "On Point with Chris Paul") that premiered last week on NBA.com. There is no doubt that CP3 is one of the NBA's brightest young stars, both on and off the court.  To help fans understand what life is like for an ... http://octagondigitalmedia.com/blog/2009/03/06/cp3-on-nbacom-and-nba-tv/ The fact that the last post on the Octagon Digital Media blog occurred in early February is proof of one thing - launching a new website and blogging regularly do not mix well.  But, we have to take at least a couple minutes to highlight some recent Twackle developments. First, late ... http://octagondigitalmedia.com/blog/2009/03/06/twackle-now-a-human-powered-recommendation-engine-and-the-business-of-sports-is-making-us-famous/ At the very end of 2008 we launched Twackle.com, which at the time aggregated all the latest sports tweets on Twitter into one spot, divided into different feeds for leagues (e.g., NFL, NBA), teams, players, and sporting events.  While pretty cool, the site lacked full Twitter integration, and was essentially ... http://octagondigitalmedia.com/blog/2009/02/04/its_alive/ In our last post we discussed whether athlete blogs really were worth the effort, given an athlete’s demanding schedule and the competition from pro or semi-pro bloggers to build an audience.  The answer, we decided, was “It depends.”  For some athletes, like Gilbert Arenas, it makes sense (please start posting ... http://octagondigitalmedia.com/blog/2009/01/21/the_end_of_athlete_blogs_part2/ An interesting thing happened over the last several years as blogging went mainstream – athletes decided that having a website was not enough, they needed a blog too.   Name an athlete with any bit of name recognition, and chances are they have a blog. In theory, this made sense.  What better ... http://octagondigitalmedia.com/blog/2009/01/16/the_end_of_athlete_blogs_part1/