Topic: Sports Illustrated

Crowded Wisdom

How's this for "The Wisdom of Crowds" in practice: LivePlanet and Microsoft MSN cooked up a deal with the Schaumburg Flyers, a minor-league baseball team in Illinois, to have the fans act as the manager for the second half of the ...READ MORE›

The Booth Babe Tactic Goes Solar

Consumer technology vendors notoriously use the “booth babe” to grab the attention of nerdy passers-by at conferences. After all, nothing says “Check out my new widget” like a hot, clueless chick dressed as a pirate. (Sarcasm, ...READ MORE›

Scoreboard for Sports Sites

Fast Company scores five sports sites.READ MORE›

Nothing But Net

Sports training no longer begins and ends in a rancid weight room, on a blistering track, or under the glare of an attentive coach. Today, smart athletes are turning to the Web to expand their skills and assess the competition.READ MORE›

Leyio Personal File Sharer: Clever, But Doomed

Leyio launched a Personal File-Sharing Device recently--a small gadget designed to simplify the swapping of personal or business-related digital data between people. It's clever, secure, and the first device to use UWB wireless. But ...READ MORE›

MySI - Helping The Sports Handicapped

Last week I talked about using Twitter as a business tool. This week, I chose a different tool that has helped me in business life, MySI aka: Sports Illustrated Mobile version for Windows Mobile. How is this a secret business ...READ MORE›

Apple's "Boobie Apps" Banning Resulted In the SuicideGirls' Removal

Apple claims they removed those 5,000 boobie apps because women were complaining over the "degrading" and "objectionable" content. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the removal of the SuicideGirls' app--which actually empowers ...READ MORE›

Do You Love Sports? Web Got Game!

Whether you're the commissioner of a fantasy league or a Lakers fan exiled in Seattle, the best sports page is a Web page. Here's a guide to the digital wide world of sports.READ MORE›

Top 3 advantages of working with a small publishing company versus a large one.

Attention. Attention. Attention. Just kidding. Sort of. I’ll explain. When I was acting years ago, I started off working commercially with a boutique agency. I LOVED my agent, Robin Levy, and her staff, Leigh and TJ. It ...READ MORE›

Contributors

ART STREIBER In 1989, Art Streiber left California for four years in Italy, where he and his wife ran the Milan bureau of Fairchild Publications, publisher of Women's Wear Daily and W magazine. Once back in L.A., he trained his eye ...READ MORE›

Time Inc.'s Mine Magazine is a Printed RSS Feed

The news just keeps getting more personal. Hyper-specialized blogs, RSS feeds, and personalized Google homepages let us focus on what we care about and tune out the rest. Thus far, personalized news has been limited to the Internet, but Time Inc. is bringing it to the printed word with mine, a five-issue, 10-week, experimental magazine...READ MORE›

Change the Baseball Schedule

Five of the fifteen games on the major league baseball schedule today are rained out (so far). A week ago, the Seattle Mariners and Cleveland Indians had a four-game series snowed out. And according to Billy-Ball, a daily rundown ...READ MORE›

Yahoo's Rally Cry

The Web portal has scored with its sports site. Does its success point the way to Yahoo's future? READ MORE›

Speedometer

Is war good for the stock market? Do we pay our warfighters enough? This month, we bring you the numbers behind the business of war.READ MORE›

What Do You Want From A Magazine Website?

Interesting article today in today's Wall Street Journal about Time Inc. and its latest attempt at a coherent Web strategy. The piece raises some important issues about what we want from our print media's online forays. Perhaps the ...READ MORE›

Sports Business: College Football Fans Vote With Their Eyes

College football is dead to me. And, apparently, if TV ratings are any type of accurate gauge, more and more sports fans share that sentiment. The average ratings for Fox's four Bowl Championship Series (BCS) games fell 13 percent ...READ MORE›

Idea Ambassador

Job Titles of the Future: Kristin Shanley MilburnREAD MORE›

Top Green Stories of the ‘00s from Grist

Our friends at Grist.org outlined the 10 biggest green stories from the last decade. From the backlash against coal, to Obama's green initiatives, and of course Al Gore made the list.READ MORE›

Time's Printed RSS Feed Magazine Needs Debugging, Ad Blocking

The first issue of mine magazine has been released, Time Inc.'s 10-issue experimental mash-up of its different magazines into a kind of printed RSS feed, and the results are not going to put Google Reader out of business anytime ...READ MORE›

Will Magazine Design Flourish or Fizzle on the iPad?

Last week a parody of Dwell magazine made the viral rounds. Unhappy Hipsters consists of photos drawn from the magazine, each showing cool young homeowners looking forlorn in their expensive interiors. Tagline: “It’s lonely in the ...READ MORE›

Languishing Language

Steve Rushin is one of a handful of writers that makes Sports Illustrated worth reading issue after issue -- even though I'm not much of a sports fan. And his Jan. 12 Air and Space column is extremely work-related, and somewhat tied ...READ MORE›

How the iPad Might Bring Us Back to Our Print Roots

The iPad could forge an entirely new design paradigm...or not.READ MORE›

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Marketing Play

Paul Williams thinks he fell prey to a marketing ploy. Receiving a piece of mail from Sports Illustrated, Williams was intrigued by a notice on the envelope that said, "Do Not Bend." Williams wondered what was inside that shouldn't ...READ MORE›

Contributors

Peter Yang After majoring in journalism at the University of Texas, Yang spent four years at a newspaper in Austin. “It was a great experience shooting three assignments a day,” the 29-year-old photographer says. ...READ MORE›

Tom Peters's True Confessions

On the 20th anniversary of In "Search of Excellence," Peters admits, "I had no idea what I was doing when I wrote 'Search.' "READ MORE›