Gilbert Arenas

Another blog by a famous person in the NBA is by Gilbert Arenas and he is sort of a weird guy. He is ultra confident and odd so people like to read his blog. He is a guy who showered at half time in his uniform and he supposedly plays poker during half time too. He recently had a shootout with his teammate with $20,000 on the line. He shoot one handed from the college three point line and his teammate shoot with two hands from the NBA three point line. All he does is complain and say that his team is back together. I one for sure do not like to read it after I skim through it but he, unlike a lot of NBA superstars, is upfront about his ego and I can respect that.

http://www.nba.com/blog/gilbert_arenas.html

Mark Cuban Blog

Mark Cuban is a billionaire who made his money by starting a business in the dot com era. His company was bought by Yahoo! and he recieved stock of Yahoo!. He later sold his shares and became a billionaire and he came into the public eye when he purchased the Dallas Mavericks. He has taken an average team and built it into a powerhouse. He actually writes a blog and writes about YouTube, the internet, liscensing, and HDTV. He basically writes a lot about technology and sometimes he will address sports. His issues change but he will argue his point and right now it is about YouTube and Google Video. Go read his points, they are pretty good.

http://www.blogmaverick.com/

Roy S. Johnson's Blog

I found this blog because I worked with Roy for a week and he told me about it. I have read it ever since he suggested it to me. It is a interesting site because I am a sports fan and Roy is a guy who has been writing in this industry for years and yet he has a blog. It seems like the most simple way for his fans to follow him. This man has worked for Sports Illustrated and ESPN and he started a blog to hear peoples' opinions. He got feedback in the old days but it was delayed by good old fashion hand written letters. Now people can just write in their reply after reading his words. He also just writes what comes into his mind and he does not have to think about features and stories. I find it interesting to read about his thoughts and not these thought out stories. Go check it out, he updates pretty frequently.

http://passtheword.wordpress.com/

ESPN 360

ESPN 360 is a sports fans dream, without TV you can watch highlights. It has shows on there and you can choose what you want to watch. It gives the fans control and we can choose to ignore what we don't want to watch. It upgrades a regular ESPN.com to a super status. The site streams well and the system works well. ESPN 360 is combing the channel and website, it is making existing line disappear. ESPN has recently taken steps to have their channel on phones. Verizon wireless just launched Mobile TV and it has eight live channels. It is currently only available in certain areas in the US. As the internet keeps growing, video seems to be jumping on its back.

The Galaxy Riders

I was walking around the streets in my usual clothes and this guy and girl with a camera come up to me and ask if they can take a picture of me. I ask for what and they said it was for a website magazine. So, I said okay and they told me that it was going to me on the thegalaxyriders.com. First I thought galazy writers because he said it was a magazine. But when googled that, it ended up being a sci-fi thing. Than I googled, galaxy riders and it ended being the magazine I was looking for. I am not up there yet but I will be eventually. It is a pretty clean site and it is a NYC based blog. It is a site about fashion and hip-hop. It is an unique looking site but it is fresh and clean. I think it is an interesting website, it is a site for clothes to but they respect all types of brands. When I am on the site, I will update my entry.

http://www.thegalaxyriders.com/

Magazines on USB...

The New Yorker has just released their entire magazine collection on a USB storage drive for $150.00. It is scanned pages of the magazine and it does have an index system, it is also 80 years of the magazine in one storage unit. I think this is personally pretty unique and interesting even though it is not anything revoluntionary. If I am a fan of a magazine and I did not have the space to hold all the hard copies than I would want one of these for the magazine. It is also cool to look back at old magazines and see how the magazine changed over time. It is a museum in a storage drive and it is easily accessible to anyone. More magazines should follow in their footsteps.

http://www.levenger.com/PAGETEMPLATES/PRODUCT/Product.asp?Params=category=18-873|level=2-3-4|pageid=5571|Special=featured|Link=Img#

Use your brain for videogames?

Project Epoc has created a controller to hook up to your head, this controller allows you to play videogames. I think it would be pretty cool to play for a little but I think videogames should be limited to handheld controllers. Maybe I am an old school videogamer and I like holding a controller, rather than having a machine read my brain. Handheld controllers also add the element of just pushing the wrong button and now that will be eliminated. The controller would probably also be very sensatitive and some people hate that. I think the benefits of videogames would decrease also because hand-eye coordination would be lost. I think it is an interesting concept but a whole body controller would be the coolest thing.

http://www.emotiv.com/2_0/2_1.htm