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Memorex Slim DVD video 25-Pack Storage Cases (Clear) Pack of 25 Slim DVD Cases / Each case holds one DVD / Thinner than typical DVD Jewel Case Customer Review: met expectations DVDs fit well and covers close and latch even with photo paper in slips. – With the movie Harry Potter and the Order [...]

Bloggers Cover Red Sox World Series Sweep
The Boston Red Sox made it look easy with a sweep of the Colorado Rockies to win the World Series. That seemed impossible going into the series with The Rockies losing just once in 38 days. Once the hottest team in baseball the Rockies came up empty in their final four games. Curt Schilling, the Red Sox’s blogging pitcher, blogged that the 8 day break may have hurt the Rockies. “God has his fingerprints all over this game.” I stole it. Clint Hurdle said that about game 4 and it resonated with me all day long. What Aaron Cook and Jon Lester went through to get to this point, to get the ball, was God’s work. What they did after “Play Ball” was awe inspiring in a million ways. Hate to see the cheap shots taken by fans and writers at what went down over the last 5 days with regards to the series and Colorado’s team. They may not use it as an excuse, I certainly don’t expect to hear it from Helton, Holliday Hurdle or any others, but the 8 days between games, in my opinion, had a negative effect on them. I still believe we are the best team in the world, and 8 days or not we would have won, but I think it did impact them in many different ways. 8 days off and then you step in the box and have to face the best pitcher on the planet? Hats off to the NL Champions for redefining comeback and “against all odds”. What they did to even get to the 2007 World Series needs to be etched in stone. I think it will be lost over the next few months because of the outcome of the Series but it shouldn’t be, they did it with class and style. They played the game right and hard. Seeing true, old school, blue collar guys like Todd Helton finally getting into the World Series after putting up Hall worthy numbers his whole career is a cool thing. Lots of happy posts as you might expect on Red Sox blogs like Over the Monster, Red Sox Podcast, Boston Sports, The Joy of Sox, A Red Sox Fan From Pinstripe Territory, Red Sox Monster, Extra Bases, Surviving Grady, The Triumphant Red Sox Blog, Red Sox Chick, Cursed to First, Boston Red Sox Nation, Behind Enemy Lines, Keep Your Sox On, Sox Nest and SawxBlog. The Rockies aren’t the champs but they had a great season and won the pennant. Some Rockies blogs/websites can be found here, here, here, here, here and here. Baseball Musings says it was fun while it lasted: “The team that pulled rabbits out of hats since the middle of September lost the magic in the World Series.” Will the Red Sox get used to winning? Some are suggesting a Red Sox dynasty is emerging but they will need to win at least another World Series or two to be like the Yankees were in the late 90s. Purple Row blogs a list of some of things The Rockies need in order to win next season. A baby giraffe born at Zoo New England in Boston was named Sox. Presidential candidate Rudolph W. Giuliani said earlier that he would be rooting for the Red Fox – a statement that infuriated some Yankee fans. Some coverage of world series stories here and here on Ballbug. The games were Twittered by @redsoxcast. Some Twitter Red Sox victory tweets can be found here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here. Posted in Sports Blogs Permalink | Recent Headlines | WWFeeds.com

Friday is the Best Day to Read Blogs
We blogged recently about the Carnegie Mellon Cost-effective Outbreak Detection in Networks study that found the 100 most informative blogs. Another interesting tidbit from this Carnegie Mellon study is that the researchers discovered that the very best day to read blogs – if efficiency is your goal – is Friday. Our framework also allows fractional selection of blogs, which means that instead of reading a large blog every day, we can read it, e.g., only one day per week. This also allows us to ask: what is the best day of the week to read blogs? In order to study whether fractional selection allows to achieve better benefit cost ratio, we split the blogs which had at least one post per day into 7 blogs, one for each day of the week. Fig. 7(a) shows, that by splitting big blogs, the population affected (PA) objective function increases for 12% over the setting where only whole blogs can be selected. Returning to the original question, we performed the following experiment: given a budget of 1000 posts, what is the best day of the week to read posts (optimizing PA)? We found that Friday is the best day to read blogs. The value of PA for Friday is 0.20, while it is 0.13 for the rest of the week. We consider this surprising, since the activity of the blogosphere (number of posts and links created) drops towards the end of the week, and especially over the weekend. You can read the entire paper in these two PDF files: here and here. The logic here might be that bloggers tend to blog less often on Fridays and so what they do end up posting might be more focused and more informative about what is going on in the blogosphere than what you see during the rest of week. That is providing they aren’t Friday Cat Blogging or blogging about their weekend plans. Permalink | Recent Headlines | WWFeeds.com

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