The ratings for this World Cup are really impressive. Its pretty safe to forecast an incremental bump. American soccer must capitalize on this momentum. "The real question will be 'what happens to Major League Soccer ratings after the World Cup?'" says Steve Master, Nielsen's vice president of sports. Master and other analysts are forecasting an […]
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Dave Barry writes the column I've been mulling over for a few days. Go figure, he's a professional writer and all. With the reception the World Cup is getting this year in the USA, I'm hoping the soccer zealots mellow out and stop seeking the approval of the rest of the domestic sports fans. Seriously,
Overview of how MLS marketing has shifted towards courting the Hispanic market. D.C. United features heavily, as an example of a team that got it mostly right from the beginning. "The league had this crazy idea that it was going to be some sort of youth-oriented activity," said Kevin Payne, owner of DC United, a
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There's a new release of the the one full-blown IDE that I've managed to stick with. If Eclipse doesn't fit your style, give Netbeans a spin – I like its inline code completion, the source-code beautifier, and the integration with SVN and Mercurial. I particularly find the source control usability much better than Eclipse. After
After watchingng all the hype leading up to this year's tournament and the breadth of coverage the tournament has received, I think we're seeing a turning point for the sport in the USA. Hopefully MLS and the domestic game can really capitalize on the interest it generates, but from here on out the World Cup
I wish they'd compared it to traffic during the Olympics. Today’s Web traffic has been classified as “Heavy” for the better part of the day, according to measurements by Akamai. At its peak, traffic for News sites globally started a steady climb about 6 am ET and peaked six hours later, at Noon ET, reaching
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Easily one of the best previews for this year' World Cup, worth a read. Argentina has the world’s best player in Lionel Messi, and lots of other talent. They also have a coach, the legendary Diego Maradona, who is bat-shit crazy. World Cup Preview
This is a good piece that uses the BP Oil Spill and the Net Neutrality debate to illustrate what "Regulatory Capture" means. It's a term I've heard before but this served to clarify it quite a bit. The [so-called] liberals’ fury at the President is almost as astounding as their outrage over the discovery that
If you use Google Analytics, Asynchronous Tracking is now available. This is a faster way for pages to send data to the mother ship, and was announced at the end of last year. The GA module for Drupal is working on supporting the new tag, in fact a patch is available if you want to
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This is the "science" methodology behind anti-vaccine research. In January, Britain's medical council ruled that Wakefield and two other doctors acted unethically and showed a "callous disregard" for the children in their study. The medical body said Wakefield took blood samples from children at his son's birthday party, paying them 5 pounds (today worth $7.20)
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