Gotta love the Irish for their ability to laugh in the face of injustice.
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Here’s a good video of Thierry Henry cheating his way into the World Cup. Sad, really. Thi sis why my non-soccer friends won’t watch soccer.
I’m headed out with some of the other fine members of Team Spring Creek to check out the Womma summit in Las Vegas. If you are headed to the event, please be sure to find me via text, email, twitter or your other favorite social media channel….
Thanks to Professor Mina Yoo and the folks over at the UW Lavin Entrepreneur Program for letting me wax philosophic for 2 hours about Social Media and small business. It’s always nice to get to test a few theories in front of a new audience, so thanks for the invitation.
It may be funny to think that a technology that didn’t even exist in 1989 could do a nice job of commemorating the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. But http://www.berlintwitterwall.com is a pretty cool mashup of Twitter feeds from around the world. You don’t need to be a Social Media wonk, or even have a Twitter account to enjoy it.
SonicsCentral.com has done a good job of keeping us up to date on Seattle candidates’ views on the NBA returning to Seattle.
Props to David Nelson of the P-I for asking these questions:
http://blog.seattlepi.com/insidebelltown/archives/182579.asp
Joe Mallahan:
I think we have to work very hard to attract an NBA team back to Seattle. That particular proposal I haven’t examined closely. The NBA’s not coming back if we don’t provide an arena that’s at NBA standards, the NBA’s come a long way. We have to figure a way for private and public dollars to partner to make that happen but it has to be done in a way where it’s not on the backs of the taxpayer. I am committed to working fervently to get a team back. The NBA is a huge part of our culture.
…With the tax payers paying their fair share. That’s a complex formula that we’re going to have to work on and partner with the private interests that are interested in owning an NBA team. As a community we blew it and we have to recover, it’s a big part of our history and culture and I would be very proud if I could help bring a team back.
Mike McGinn:
I need to know more about the proposal before committing to supporting it. My key issue here is ensuring that we’re making a wise investment of public resources into the arena and not finding our self in a position where the city ends up on the hook, these are pretty serious budget times. I’m open to a renovation of Key Arena, but I have to see what the payoff is.
We have to be careful with taxpayers and we have to make sure we’re doing the right thing for the surrounding business district, the arena, and Seattle Center. But I’m certainly open to people making the case.
You’ve probably seen this, but this is a pretty cool Flash mob. I have no idea how they pulled this off.
Whether you are a soccer fan or not, if you like sports in general, you have to appreciate the final weekend of the MLS season this Saturday and Sunday.
An 8 team playoff starts next week, with significant advantages for the top 2 seeds in each division. And going into the 30th and final game, 6 teams have punched their ticket, with 6 more teams battling for the final 2 spots. There are about 1000 permutations for which 2 teams will sneak in.
Furthermore, in the West, the 4 teams that have already qualified all have 45, 45, 45, and 44 points respectively. What that means is that virtually any combination of teams could be 1,2,3,4.
TV wise, it couldn’t have worked out any better for MLS, as every game this weekend has playoff implications. Since few of the teams in the race are playing each other, every team has an important game.
I bring this up for our non-soccer fans, to ask you to imagine what the last weekend of November would look like for NCAA football fans, if 6-8 teams had to win to grab the final spots of an 8 team playoff….that would be fun…
(Finally something somewhat social media related.)
Here’s a fun little ticker from a guy named Gary Hayes and his blog Personalize Media. Who knows if the data is accurate, but it’s fun to watch numbers go up…