Sports on My Mind is one of the better sports blogs/sites around in my opinion and often focuses on race in the sports media, which is of course a topic the mainstream media rarely tackles with much conviction. In fact, the site was the only one that I could find (besides EWC) that strongly came […]

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In what has turned into a high stakes media chess match, the Chinese government has apparently given the go ahead to Western media outlets to do Olympic broadcasts from Tiananmen Square. The site is controversial both because it was the site of the infamous pro-democracy protests in 1989, but also because protesters continue to flock […]

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I have a new toy. Inspired by the work of Rays clipmaster David Chalk I put myself on the waiting list for a RedLasso account. After what seemed like an eternity it arrived today, enabling me to not only make clips of things that many will have absolutely no interest in, but put them on […]

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I found another examination of in the Internet’s role in the current meat furor cum presidential protest currently happening in South Korea. This comes from the Korea IT Times and uses the term flash mob, which has an entry on Wikipedia, to describe the gatherings. I’d call it something else, but more on that later.
This reporter […]

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I haven’t had many clear ideas about the Korean protest of the US beef deal that I wanted to get into on this site, even though I’ve probably read more about it in recent weeks than any other topic. The origins of the protests are dubious at best, but I think it eventually (and amazingly) […]

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Curious side story to the recent Sichuan earthquake, as drawn out by Danwei from a few different sources.
On 12 May, Fan Meizhong was teaching literature to a class of high school students when the earthquake hit. He shouted, “Earthquake!” and then ran out of the classroom, down the stairs, and out onto the field, leaving […]

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While I’m sure everyone feels pretty up to date on things concerning the Sichuan earthquake you might want to check out Shanghailist, which is being updated constantly with all kinds of photos and news items you won’t find most places. But I also found this very interesting blog called Zhongnanhai, written by one or two guys that actually work for the […]

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The hissy fit thrown by Buzz Bissinger on the set of whatever-Bob-Costas’-HBO-show-is-called has been well-documented on blogs everywhere the past few days, but this article in this week’s edition of The Economist might help us better understand the source of Buzz’s anger.
The piece details the increasingly dire situation of the New York Times, a paper […]

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Most people have already seen or heard this on other sites, but I’m compelled write something about this Bob Costas/Will Leitch - and now Buzz Bissinger of the New York Times - tilt that’s been spawning a lot of coverage in the sports blog world.
Even though I write what is essentially a sports blog, I don’t necessarily […]

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Good piece in today’s New York Times about tensions being fleshed out between sports franchises, leagues and reporters, due to the emergence of sports blogging, or as bloggers are fond of calling it — online media.
The dispute has grown lately between the press and organized sports over issues like how reporters cover teams, who owns the […]

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