I was going to wait until the morning to do a link post, but decided I’d rather get it out before going to bed. It’s been quite a day and night, so I won’t offer a whole lot of commentary on today’s Link of the Day other than to just say you should go read it — especially if you are a sports blogger.
Today’s Link of the Day comes from The World According to MoonDog, and traces his brief but successful history as a sports blogger. Here is an excerpt and the link. Go check it out:
LOTD: The Evolution of the Sports Blogosphere — (The World According to MoonDog)
My idea of sports blogging was in line with old-school thinking. I thought I only needed to write a well-written article a few times each week and over time, more readers would become aware of my work.
For the first few months of my still brief blogging career, I banged away in relative obscurity. I wrote passionately about subjects that interested me and spent days researching the topic. I posted a few times a week and didn’t get much attention.
One day over a year ago, I wrote a piece about Stephen A. Smith and comments he made during an interview with Tom Hoffarth of the L.A. Times. I was still blogging at Fox Sports at that time and the piece really took off, rising to the top of the highlighted Fox blogs for that day.
I was a superstar. I had arrived. Or had I?
Not so fast MoonDog. I hadn’t done anything but write one noteworthy piece, at least in the eyes of the blogosphere. The next day, the hordes of readers that visited my little section at Fox were off reading the latest hot-button topic.
That experience was an eye-opener and one I point to as a key in becoming aware of how the sports blogosphere works. It only matters what you did today, because yesterday is long forgotten.
And some other links from around the web:
Lots of confusion regarding Mark Sanchez’s draft prospects — (Sparty and Friends)
Detroit Tigers 2009 Preview — (Sparty and Friends)
Dave Bing: Rock the Vote! — (Josh Q Public)
Patron Saint, F**K Face gets balls broken — (Hugging Harold Reynolds)
Good, Bad, and Ugly: Northwestern — (Inside the Hall)
Browns QB Controversy: Could Derek Anderson Still Be Our Guy? — (Waiting For Next Year)
The Pistons are tumbling into oblivion — (NBA FanHouse)
Leyland: Dontrelle Willis Looks “Tremendous” — (MLB.com)
Luol Deng: 9th Man? — (Zoner Sports)
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