basketball

Blogging Like a Baller

by Brian on 07-10-2009

in media

Felix Salmon posted some great advice about blogging for journalists. All of the points are very good, most of them are familiar, but this — one of his slogans — really stood out for me: “the object of quality in a blog is not the individual blog entry, it’s the blog itself” It reminded me [...]

Basketball and Wisdom

by Brian on 02-19-2009

in business,civics,science

I’d recommend this article to just about anybody: “The No-Stats All-Star” from New York Times Magazine. [Update: I forgot to tip my hat to aldaily.com -- of all places -- where I found the link. Patrick Maloney at lfpress.com blogged it earlier too.] It’s by Michael Lewis, who walked away from Wall Street in the 1980′s and wrote [...]