Seems like a good read:
Soccernomics isn’t in the first place about money. It’s about looking at data in new ways. It’s about revealing counterintuitive truths about football. It explains all manner of things about the game which newspapers just can’t see. It all adds up to a new way of looking at football, beyond clichés about “The Magic of the FA Cup”, “England’s Shock Defeat” and “Newcastle’s New South American Star”.
Related: “Pay As You Play: The True Price of Success in the Premier League Era”
For years we’ve judged football and football people without the analytical tools to do it properly. Finally a book that attempts to do so intelligently. Hopefully a harbinger of more to come!
Chelsea chief executive Ron Gourlay:
We’ve finalised our unique partnership with the Sauber team bringing Formula 1 and football together. It’s an opportunity not just around commercial activity but also around sports science and performance, and it’s interesting to see how they prepare their drivers and we look forward to working together
This feels very weird.
“Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word ‘no’”.
Marco Arment to Damon Lavrinc for Wired:
The most ‘authentic’ web-article advancement method, to me, is just scrolling. But I can’t deny that I like pagination better. Scrolling through long articles just feels tedious.
I agree so much. I think scrolling is the most authentic ‘web’ method too, but reading on the iPad (or even the iPhone) is something different.
John Gruber at Daring Fireball:
Seems crazy that iOS, the direct descendant of NeXT, doesn’t have anything like Services, which were one of NeXT’s most touted features (and rightfully so).
Yes.
But they need to make it _better_ than Windows Phone’s great ‘Contracts’ feature. It needs to work with iCloud and it needs to be seamless across all platforms. I’m sure they can figure it out, but it’s not as easy as it might sound…
It’s a live streaming app for the 5by5 network. I hardly ever listen live to any podcast, but it’s worth checking out.
(via Shawn Blanc)
Dave Winer:
Having gotten used to the new iPad, the old one feels like an upgrade!
Ordered.
Why are you doing what you’re doing? Right now?
Politicians need to rethink the political system!
Improve the way organisations can introduce improvements.
Make the most influential list of people with influence.
Welcome to the meta-age.
I’m sitting on a train writing this, listening to The Beatles’ Revolver album and occasionaly glancing out of the window watching the Flemish landscape slowly rolling by.
I’m on the road with my iPhone, doing things on a device smaller than a cigarette box. Things that one was unable to do at all just a decade ago.
I’m excited for the future this will herald, slowly but profoundly changing our everyday life and penetrating our culture.
We’re exiting the computing age, where computing was some activity occasionally performed by a few geeky enthousiast.
It’s not about the iPhone, the Google TV-set or Samsung’s patent portfolio. It’s about a transformation in how we handle information (all the time and in real time), the way we communicate (always on and a constant blend of all different groups we belong to) and how this inevitably transforms our society in something we haven’t seen before.
Think different, you’ll have to eventually
Tries to read 1 book a week, listens to music at work and podcasts on the train, watches quality TV to unwind and owns an Xbox 360.
