Bad enough that this might be the final year for my favorite sport in the Olympics, but they’re also playing with the sanctity of the game itself. Apparently, the IBAF is so concerned by long games that they’re changing the rules for extra innings.
Each team’s at-bat in the 11th inning and beyond will begin with runners on first and second bases. Teams may start the 11th at any point in their batting order.
Seriously, what?! Awful, despicable, horrible, bad.
Is the Internet making Attention Deficit Disorder the norm? It would certainly seem that way. Our attention spans are eroding and the web may be to blame. With services like Twitter and 12seconds.tv it’s no wonder — the new crop of microcontent applications appear to made specifically for a populace with an attention span of zero.
I talk about the disappearing attention span in a post on SitePoint today.
Time to announce where I’m going to be doing my blogging post-ReadWriteWeb. The answer? SitePoint.
SitePoint is a huge web development community, and I’ve been brought on board as Lead Blogger to push out a new focus on their blogs toward web tech news and analysis (the same sort of stuff I’ve been writing for the past year over at RWW). I’ve been a regular on SitePoint’s forums since 2003, and I was a moderator there for about 4 years. So in a way, this is a homecoming for me.
Theoretically I’ll be contributing to all the SP blogs, but really I’ll mostly live in the ‘News & Trends’ category. My goal is to really own the main page of the site in terms of timely, blogged, web tech news content.
Richard MacManus just put up the official farewell post, so it’s now official: I’m leaving ReadWriteWeb.
I’ll still be blogging, just for another outfit. I’ll talk more about my future plans here soon (though enough people know them that it won’t be surprising if it leaks out). :)