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May 1, 2008 at 3:32 pm · Filed under General, NBA
RSS Awareness Day
Today, Daily Basketball takes a break from the NBA playoffs and awards for a brief public service announcement.
May 1 (that’s today) is RSS Awareness Day. For any of our readers who aren’t familiar with RSS, here’s an explanation from official RSS Awareness Day headquarters:
The main benefit of RSS is that it enables people to stay connected with their favorite websites without having to visit them. Once you subscribe to a particular RSS feed, you will automatically receive updates from the website that publishes the feed, whenever they release new content.
In other words, it compiles posts from your favorite blogs into one convenient place.
Why Should an NBA Fan Check RSS Feeds?
RSS feeds cut down on the time “wandering around” for interesting sports stories. There’s no need to try remembering every cool site you come across. Bookmarks are helpful, but some blogs aren’t updated very often. Instead of checking web sites every day or two, RSS feeds update automatically as soon as a new post is up.
Why Should Sports Bloggers Promote Their RSS feeds?
The Sports Dollar considers considers reading blogs daily an important part of successful sports blogging (see fluff #10). RSS feeds are amazingly efficient for this. While you miss out on the discussion in the comments, you can quickly all of the news in sports over just a few minutes of time.
Not only are RSS feeds important for catching up on the blogosphere, but they are just as important for promoting blogs. You spend a good deal of time working on an exceptional blog post. Don’t you want to make sure your readers see it? With RSS feeds, they are notified the moment it’s published.
How Do I Get Started?
RSS Awareness Day has a basic tutorial.
In addition, here’s a very basic rundown:
- Choose an RSS feed reader. Popular choices are Google Reader and BlogLines. It’s quick and easy to create an account.
- Find the RSS subscription link, and subscribe. Many blogs link to their RSS with a button or link in the menu, or at the bottom of their blog, and sometimes even in posts. If you use Firefox as your web browser, you probably will see the RSS icon on the far right edge of the address bar (go ahead, check there now!).
- Begin reading!
A List of Top Sports RSS Feeds
Here’s a list of RSS feeds ought to consider subscribing to, starting of course, with our own.
Have a favorite RSS feed you would like to add to our list? Leave a comment below.
March 17, 2008 at 9:50 pm · Filed under General, NBA
Daily Basketball is hosting the Carnival of the NBA #55. Any blogger who would like to contribute a post should send at e-mail to DailyBasketball@gmail.com.
The submission deadline is this Saturday, March 22. The Carnival will be published next week, on either Monday night or Tuesday morning.
December 29, 2007 at 9:58 am · Filed under General
Daily Basketball now has a Facebook application available for your convenience. You can now view the latests posts on Daily Basketball, and share your favorites with your Facebook friends.
Do you have a Facebook application? Add our application to your profile!
Fellow bloggers: If you’d like to create a similar application for your own blog (an RSS feed of recent posts), consider BlogFuse. A successful application results in more links and traffic to your blog, more RSS subscribers, and is easy to set up at a minimal cost ($5/month).
July 13, 2007 at 2:11 pm · Filed under General, NBA
We’ve set up a page to cover all of the NBA offseason thus far. The page lists all of the signings so far, as well as a couple trades and the salary cap information for the 2007-08 season. If you notice we’ve missed anything, feel free to let me know in the comments sections of the page.
The San Antonio Spurs definitely know what they’re doing, judging by their domination this past decade, but they allowed themselves to get ripped off in their trade with the Houston Rockets. The Spurs traded the rights to top international prospect Luis Scola and big man Jackie Butler. In return the team got Vassilis Spanoulis, who apparently said before this trade that he wouldn’t come over to the NBA if traded to the Spurs and offered a starting spot. That being said, this move was purely financial as the champions continue to play with no salary cap worries.
The Cleveland Cavaliers have targeted Mike Bibby as their next point guard. The team is in talks with the Sacramento Kings, and the teams were close to a three-way deal with the Spurs before the Scola/Spanoulis trade.
After averaging 9.5 fouls a game in summer league action, Greg Oden decided to sit out the rest of the Las Vegas action to have his tonsils removed. Portland Trailblazers officials say that his tonsils seriously affected his poor performance, although on the other hand, his performance may have caused the inflammation of his tonsils.
October 11, 2006 at 4:57 pm · Filed under General
Click here to join the Daily Basketball fantasy basketball league!
Join our first annual fantasy basketball league, hosted by Yahoo! The draft will take place near October 25th, and is an autopick draft so you shouldn’t have any problem finding time for it.
The league is rotisserie-style, but with the following categories:
Games played
Field Goal %
Three-point %
Free-throw %
Points scored
Total Rebounds
Assists
Blocks
Assist-to-turnover ratio
Use the following information to join:
League ID: 95883
Password: dbfantasy
Click here to join the Daily Basketball fantasy basketball league!
October 11, 2006 at 2:41 pm · Filed under General, NBA
T.J. Ford can be added to the list of a plethora of players frustrated with the NBA’s new ball. “Once the ball hits the floor it kind of sticks.”, Ford said. The Toronto Raptors‘ point guard is just one of many players who have publicly complained about the ball. The league has looked into the situation and briefly considered keeping the old ball, but the league doesn’t seem to be worried.
The preseason hasn’t featured many storylines so far, but the Detroit Pistons have shown that they can play without Ben Wallace. During the blowout victory in their preseason game in Puerto Rico against defending champion Miami Heat, new starting center Nazr Mohammed led the team in points, rebounds, and blocks.
Aaron McKie is aware that his time left in the league is running out, “The fat lady is warming up her pipes”. It isn’t known whether McKie will play the upcoming season with the Los Angeles Lakers or if the team will save the roster spot and give a rookie the plentiful minutes behind Kobe Bryant.
After being traded and then waived by the Golden State Warriors, Devin Brown may once again return to his hometown San Antonio. Brown’s agent says that there are several quality teams that have shown interest in Brown, but Brown has spent much of his life in San Antonio (including a couple seasons with the Spurs) and the home team would probably have the inside track on signing Brown.
New Jersey Nets‘ point guard Jay Williams will be on the court for his first game in a couple years after rehabbing from the motorcycle accident and struggling to find a roster spot. The former #2 draft pick is excited for tonight’s game against the Indiana Pacers. “I am going to be ready for it.”
Now that the preseason is about to begin and teams are preparing for the season, it’s the perfect time to sign up on our basketball forums. Generally unoccupied, we’re looking for valuable members to contribute in discussions about all things basketball.
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