Here's video part one:
..and video part two:
Sunday, August 06, 2006
John Madden's Speech To The NFL Hall Of Fame
This is John Madden's speech after being introduced by Al Davis at the NFL Hall Of Fame
Here's video part one:
..and video part two:
Here's video part one:
..and video part two:
Al Davis - Al Davis Presents John Madden At The NFL Hall Of Fame
This is a series of videos where Al Davis presents John Madden into the NFL Hall Of Fame. If transcripts of these great speeches become available, we'll post them for you. Visit NFL.com for more information.
Here's the first part of the video:
Here's the second part of the video:
Here's the first part of the video:
Here's the second part of the video:
NFL Hall Of Fame - John Madden Intro At Friday Night Party
This video -- without sound -- shows Oakland Raiders Former Head Coach and now NFL Hall Of Famer John Madden being introduced at the Friday night party before the Saturday induction ceremonies.
Here's John Madden
Here's John Madden
2006 NFL Schedule From The NFL
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE CALENDAR
2006
Late July -- Training camps open.
July 24 -- Signing period ends at 4:00 PM ET for unrestricted free agents who received June 1 tender.
August 6 -- Pro Football Hall of Fame Game, Canton, Ohio -- Oakland Raiders vs. Philadelphia Eagles
(NBC).
August 10-14 -- First full preseason weekend.
August 29 -- Roster cutdown to maximum of 75 players.
September 2 -- Roster cutdown to maximum of 53 players.
September 3 -- Clubs may establish practice squad of eight players.
September 7-11 -- Kickoff 2006.
October 17 -- Trading deadline.
October 23-25 -- NFL Fall Meeting (New Orleans, Louisiana).
December 30-31 -- Regular season ends.
2007
January 6-7 -- Wild Card Playoffs.
January 13-14 -- Divisional Playoffs.
January 21 -- Conference Championships.
February 4 -- Super Bowl XLI, South Florida (CBS).
February 10 -- AFC-NFC Pro Bowl, Honolulu, Hawaii (CBS).
February 21-27 -- NFL Scouting Combine, Indianapolis, Indiana.
March 25-28 -- NFL Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona.
April 28-29 -- NFL Draft, New York City.
Late May -- NFL Spring Meeting (Site TBD).
2006
Late July -- Training camps open.
July 24 -- Signing period ends at 4:00 PM ET for unrestricted free agents who received June 1 tender.
August 6 -- Pro Football Hall of Fame Game, Canton, Ohio -- Oakland Raiders vs. Philadelphia Eagles
(NBC).
August 10-14 -- First full preseason weekend.
August 29 -- Roster cutdown to maximum of 75 players.
September 2 -- Roster cutdown to maximum of 53 players.
September 3 -- Clubs may establish practice squad of eight players.
September 7-11 -- Kickoff 2006.
October 17 -- Trading deadline.
October 23-25 -- NFL Fall Meeting (New Orleans, Louisiana).
December 30-31 -- Regular season ends.
2007
January 6-7 -- Wild Card Playoffs.
January 13-14 -- Divisional Playoffs.
January 21 -- Conference Championships.
February 4 -- Super Bowl XLI, South Florida (CBS).
February 10 -- AFC-NFC Pro Bowl, Honolulu, Hawaii (CBS).
February 21-27 -- NFL Scouting Combine, Indianapolis, Indiana.
March 25-28 -- NFL Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona.
April 28-29 -- NFL Draft, New York City.
Late May -- NFL Spring Meeting (Site TBD).
Technorati - Does It's Tagging System Allow Bloggers To Shut Out Voices?
Masood Mortazavi says this:
...Apparently, Jon had the good fortune of attending Peter Hirshberg's birthday party during which Peter showed off some of the new cool things about Technorati, but what grabbed my attention was Peter's discussion of the way Technorati is constraining its tag system.
For some reason, I never read about these constraints anywhere else when I first started using the tags. Here's a quote from Jon's article:
Lest omnivorous bloggers try to game the system and claim they cover subjects they rarely write about, they can declare expertise in only 20 subjects, and a feedback mechanism lets users suggest that blogs be removed from certain categories. Because Technorati scans 16.4 million blogs, all it takes is those bloggers spending a few minutes with the database "for the entire system [to] get smart and correct itself very quickly," says Hirshberg.
What this means is that if there are enough users organized to remove someone from a particular topic, they'll be able to do it. This is rule of the masses, not the rule of the free expression of ideas, and while I don't have anything against the masses, I have always found suppression of ideas quite reprehensible. What is even worse in my case is my prolific use of the tags, which have taken me to several dozen different topics. I find it ridiculous that the writer is limited to the use of only 20 tags. That might work for an advertising agency working for a corporation but it doesn't quite work for the free-wheeling blogger. As a lite-relativist, I've always had trouble with expertise being defined in such narrow ways. I spent my graduate years trying to escape it and now here we have a system that can do quite a bit of good in bringing you to greater number of readers but that puts restraints on how you stream your thoughts and what you write about. So, I'm out.
At least for right now, I have to say: Goodbye To Technoratic Tags!!!
No longer, will I bother and waste time with them. They may be good for category writers but not for me unless policies such as those above change.
Jon Fine's column is available online for free. By the way, in it, Fine mentions some Technorati competitors.
This is very disturbing news given Technorati's size. Dave Sifry should alter this ASAP!
...Apparently, Jon had the good fortune of attending Peter Hirshberg's birthday party during which Peter showed off some of the new cool things about Technorati, but what grabbed my attention was Peter's discussion of the way Technorati is constraining its tag system.
For some reason, I never read about these constraints anywhere else when I first started using the tags. Here's a quote from Jon's article:
Lest omnivorous bloggers try to game the system and claim they cover subjects they rarely write about, they can declare expertise in only 20 subjects, and a feedback mechanism lets users suggest that blogs be removed from certain categories. Because Technorati scans 16.4 million blogs, all it takes is those bloggers spending a few minutes with the database "for the entire system [to] get smart and correct itself very quickly," says Hirshberg.
What this means is that if there are enough users organized to remove someone from a particular topic, they'll be able to do it. This is rule of the masses, not the rule of the free expression of ideas, and while I don't have anything against the masses, I have always found suppression of ideas quite reprehensible. What is even worse in my case is my prolific use of the tags, which have taken me to several dozen different topics. I find it ridiculous that the writer is limited to the use of only 20 tags. That might work for an advertising agency working for a corporation but it doesn't quite work for the free-wheeling blogger. As a lite-relativist, I've always had trouble with expertise being defined in such narrow ways. I spent my graduate years trying to escape it and now here we have a system that can do quite a bit of good in bringing you to greater number of readers but that puts restraints on how you stream your thoughts and what you write about. So, I'm out.
At least for right now, I have to say: Goodbye To Technoratic Tags!!!
No longer, will I bother and waste time with them. They may be good for category writers but not for me unless policies such as those above change.
Jon Fine's column is available online for free. By the way, in it, Fine mentions some Technorati competitors.
This is very disturbing news given Technorati's size. Dave Sifry should alter this ASAP!
Alien Behind Post Grabs Boy - Fake Video Looks Real
I read this video was made in Mexico and the producers admitted it was fake. Either that or the producers are lying and they are aliens. You never know.
But check this out:
But check this out:
Wall Street Journal Names Moguls Of New Media, Gets It Wrong
The Wall Street Jounal, looking to get a lot of links, asked John Jurgensen to pen an article pointing to the "Moguls of New Media."
Give me a break.
Hey, I'm glad they gave Amanda Congdon some more exposure-- too much is not enough in this case -- but John forgets her ex-partner Andrew Baron. Big mistake.
But it underscores what a joke of an article this is. The definitions of Mogul are:
-a bump on a ski slope
-a member of the Muslim dynasty that ruled India until 1857
-baron: a very wealthy or powerful businessman; "an oil baron"
None of which is listed in the Wall Street Journal's "mogul" list. But considering the WSJ and its author think New Media's just a terms for kids on MySpace -- which is featured in his article and prominently -- it's no wonder this pap was released. It does no one any good at all.
This video asking real New Media players -- people a bit more on the Mogul level -- what New Media is, has the definition in it and does a better job than the WSJ.
...But hey, it's expressed in a new media way, so what should I expect!
Give me a break.
Hey, I'm glad they gave Amanda Congdon some more exposure-- too much is not enough in this case -- but John forgets her ex-partner Andrew Baron. Big mistake.
But it underscores what a joke of an article this is. The definitions of Mogul are:
-a bump on a ski slope
-a member of the Muslim dynasty that ruled India until 1857
-baron: a very wealthy or powerful businessman; "an oil baron"
None of which is listed in the Wall Street Journal's "mogul" list. But considering the WSJ and its author think New Media's just a terms for kids on MySpace -- which is featured in his article and prominently -- it's no wonder this pap was released. It does no one any good at all.
This video asking real New Media players -- people a bit more on the Mogul level -- what New Media is, has the definition in it and does a better job than the WSJ.
...But hey, it's expressed in a new media way, so what should I expect!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)