If Bikeradar had blogs

biondino

And any poster could set one up on the site (a bit like Fetch do), would you start one? Would it change the way you post? Would it change the way people read the boards, and affect the community in any tangible way?

This is purely a hypothetical question as to the best of my knowledge it isn't going to happen. I'd quite like a blog on Bikeradar - I like you guys, I think enough people would be interested enough to read, and that in turn would encourage me to write decent stuff. I like writing, I'm okay at it (I just wrote a beginner's guide to cricket at the baseball site I post at), and I would appreciate the incentive - though I know from past experience maintaining a blog without a set audience is hard work indeed.

Bassjunkieuk

Don't we effectively have a blog in the form of this forum?
I know a blog would be a bit different as each one would just be about one person but for me I post most of my stories onto the SCR thread or might start a new thread if it doesn't fit in.

It would be interesting to try as a test I guess.......

woodyonthebeach

If we blogged we could use things like SpinVox to blog to the page whilst on the move.

http://www.spinvox.com/blog.html

girv73

I already have a blog - well, three, but only one is about bikes - and stuff from the forums here ends up there, and vice versa. So I don't think if BR provided blogs it'd change much for me. I might start one and use it to funnel traffic to my main cycling blog, that'd be all.

Eau Rouge

Never mind blogs,....what brought you to the Rockies? 2007 aside, they don't exactly jump out at you as a team.

biondino

Eau Rouge wrote:

Never mind blogs,....what brought you to the Rockies? 2007 aside, they don't exactly jump out at you as a team.

Hah! I was beginning to get properly into baseball in 2006, and when the 2007 season came around I needed a team to support. I toyed with the Cincinatti Reds, as my mum lived there for a while and there are photos of me aged one wearing a Reds cap, and the Boston Red Sox, as I'd followed them in the 2004 World Series and got caught up in the drama.

But eventually I decided to go for Colorado, because my then girlfriend had spent a year in Denver when we were first together and I'd been to visit her several times and fell in love with the city (and its associations - it was all wonderful lovey-dovey stuff in the relationship, too!). And as history proves, I made an unusually prescient choice considering how the 2007 season turned out!

Christophe3967

biondino wrote:

And any poster could set one up on the site (a bit like Fetch do), would you start one? Would it change the way you post? Would it change the way people read the boards, and affect the community in any tangible way?

This is purely a hypothetical question as to the best of my knowledge it isn't going to happen. I'd quite like a blog on Bikeradar - I like you guys, I think enough people would be interested enough to read, and that in turn would encourage me to write decent stuff. I like writing, I'm okay at it (I just wrote a beginner's guide to cricket at the baseball site I post at), and I would appreciate the incentive - though I know from past experience maintaining a blog without a set audience is hard work indeed.

Ah, but the captain can't place his fielders wherever he likes - remember no more than three behind square leg. And obviously the lack of an explanation of the Duckworth-Lewis method will have left our American cousins scratching their heads as to how a limited overs rain affected game is resolved.

Clearly the challenge would be getting people to stay on subject if we were blogging..

biondino

Hang on though - surely slip fielders are behind square leg, and I could have sworn I once saw seven slips being used... (and I did say my cricketing knowledge was far from flawless! But if you want to put together a piece on Duckworth/Lewis I'll be happy to post it for the Americans )

That's the thing - I don't think the blogs *should* be on topic. It's one of the key things a forum has to decide - do you make your users stick to the topic (like the baseball forum) or go off topic (like Fetch Everyone)? BR has chosen the former, with easily manageable places like Cake Stop as the overspill for when people are bored of talking about bikes. I'd kind of like to see that latter, where bikes may be what bring, and keep, us together, but we can expand on all that in our personal but public space.

(even as I type this I realise that the commuting forum is basically everything I've said I want! The difference is the commuting forum is not ALL ABOUT ME ME ME, perhaps...)

downfader

I thought BR did have blogs..? By the journos and writers...

Eau Rouge

biondino wrote:

But eventually I decided to go for Colorado, because my then girlfriend had spent a year in Denver when we were first together and I'd been to visit her several times and fell in love with the city (and its associations - it was all wonderful lovey-dovey stuff in the relationship, too!). And as history proves, I made an unusually prescient choice considering how the 2007 season turned out!

That would be a good reason.
I'll always have Boston in '99, the 'curse' was still alive, Pedro having one of the greatest seasons ever, Nomah in his prime, a magical ALDS Game 5, and the (then) usual crushing loss to the Yankees. Oh how 2004 has changed things, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

NGale

Eau Rouge wrote:

biondino wrote:

But eventually I decided to go for Colorado, because my then girlfriend had spent a year in Denver when we were first together and I'd been to visit her several times and fell in love with the city (and its associations - it was all wonderful lovey-dovey stuff in the relationship, too!). And as history proves, I made an unusually prescient choice considering how the 2007 season turned out!

That would be a good reason.
I'll always have Boston in '99, the 'curse' was still alive, Pedro having one of the greatest seasons ever, Nomah in his prime, a magical ALDS Game 5, and the (then) usual crushing loss to the Yankees. Oh how 2004 has changed things, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

Blueeeeeee Jays!

Actually more of an Ice Hockey fan me. Find baseball crushingly boring (much like cricket) but I do keep an eye on the Blue Jays results as I have family in Toronto

marchant

I've been reading this for a while, and I'm surprised no-one's mentioned it here before. Surely I can't be the person here who [irony]rocks[/irony] this blog

Christophe3967

biondino wrote:

Hang on though - surely slip fielders are behind square leg, and I could have sworn I once saw seven slips being used... (and I did say my cricketing knowledge was far from flawless! But if you want to put together a piece on Duckworth/Lewis I'll be happy to post it for the Americans )

That's the thing - I don't think the blogs *should* be on topic. It's one of the key things a forum has to decide - do you make your users stick to the topic (like the baseball forum) or go off topic (like Fetch Everyone)? BR has chosen the former, with easily manageable places like Cake Stop as the overspill for when people are bored of talking about bikes. I'd kind of like to see that latter, where bikes may be what bring, and keep, us together, but we can expand on all that in our personal but public space.

(even as I type this I realise that the commuting forum is basically everything I've said I want! The difference is the commuting forum is not ALL ABOUT ME ME ME, perhaps...)

OK the law on leg side fielders says that there may be no more than two behind square leg - the slips are on the opposite side (the offside) and you could have all your men there if you wanted.

In essence the adjustments that the Duckworth Lewis (D/L) method makes try to ensure that after a rain break, the status quo of the match is roughly retained so that no one team gains an unfair advantage. Its a method that works using the notion that teams have two resources with which to make as many runs as they can - these are the number of overs they have still to receive and the number of wickets they have in hand. From any stage in their innings, their further run-scoring capability depends on both these two resources in combination. It is much easier to chase 100 runs with ten wickets left than with one wicket left, and the D/L method allows for this. Crystal?