- Twitter essay by Dan Baum, a former New Yorker staff writer. The quill and quire is probably right, that this is Mr. Baum's attempt to get some buzz about his latest book. That's fine, but his try shows that there are right ways to use twitter and wrong ways.
His article is basically chopped up into pieces that will fit into an individual tweet. It seems like he wrote his essay. Then, this part he repeats, he counts 140 characters and posts. I signed up out of curiosity, but in like a 10 minute span, I received like 2 dozen pieces of his essay. Twitter, though, is a real time based medium so what's read and written should have some pertinence to the moment it's read. It's also a dangerous spam tool, and there's an etiquette of amount; keep what you're saying interesting, but say too much and it's all boring.
I ended up adding him, then removing him right away.
- Good Chauncey article. The best character guy in the NBA? He might be. The article has a lot of good tidbits including his high school and college career in Colorado when he was basically that state's Mr. Basketball. Also mentions how much Rip Hamilton cried (you's cried!) when Chauncey got traded to Denver earlier in the season.
Oh, yeah, and also reminds us how bad a coach Pitino was. How can you trade a top 5 pick 50 games into his first season? Crazy.
Chauncey rules, Iverson meh.
I know there are lots of Iverson fans out there but I personally won't miss him if he called it quits and retires. I actually hope he does.
Chauncey blossomed late in my opinion. Yes, it was premature for Pitino to trade such a high pick but for some reason a handful of teams traded him also (including the Raptors). He has definitely rounded out to be a stella player that I think is another championship away from being considered for the Hall of Fame!!!