Strava revealed a startling number to The Verge. As a long-time user, I’m really hoping its a typo.
Tag: Drama
A Hashtag #ContentUpdate for all my Hashtag #Content
I am not the sort of person who makes New Year’s Resolutions. But if I were, one I’d have been consistently breaking every year for the past decade is making a more concerted effort to centralize and market my #content. So I will periodically recap my recent work on this blog—which, as an ancillary benefit,…
Two Little Job Listings Reveal Outside’s Big Content Failure
Outside Inc., posted two job listings last month that perfectly encapsulate how clueless the organization is about its core product.
On Strava, or The Things You Love Should Love You Back
[there is a much more concise version of this on Medium’s OneZero publication] Strava, the since-forever social fitness service, announced yesterday that a number of features previously available for free to any user were being transferred instead into the company’s paid offering. The Internet responded as you might expect, everyone seems to have a hot…
Deconstructing Self-Destruction
I got into a little Twitter dust-up this weekend with VeloNews’ John Bradley. It wasn’t on purpose—yes, I did tweet a rebuke at him, but it was based largely on my misinterpreting something he’d written. @johnwbradley @velonews shop your feelings away. Strong take. — Cyclocosm.com (@Cyclocosm) January 31, 2016 @johnwbradley @velonews my apologies. My interpretation…
Say Hello to Lupo Wolfie
The Giro d’Italia announced a new mascot today. I haven’t been graced with the accompanying PR copy, but I’d guess it’s something along the lines of “Lupo is the perfect mascot to bring this great Italian race to a world-wide audience!” Lupo’s arrival marks the end of the road for the race’s previous mascot, Girbecco,…
Because John Watson Wants an Apology
Update 16 Sept 2014 – Watson has written up his thoughts on Cross Vegas, in which he wishes he had “handled the situation a lot differently”. We’ve all done dumb shit before, John—especially me. Especially on the Internet, and especially while having a good party going. It’s not a character flaw. It happens, and when…
Can We Please Stop Ruining Bike Races With Electronic Shifting?
I’m not going to claim impartiality here—if nothing else, I think electronic shifting is massively over-priced. I’ve never ridden it—I hear it shifts well and smoothly and precisely and is super-cool, and I have no reason to dispute that. But similarly, I think there’s no counter-argument to the fact that when it doesn’t shift, you…
Rantcast #1: On Dave Brailsford and "Innuendo"
Transcript Hey there Internets—as I mentioned on Monday, I’m a little cranky this week and so I figured, what with my ample amounts of free time and top shelf home production facility, I might as well turn some of that angst into entertaining multimedia web content. So I guess I want my first rant to…
Cycling Organization Press Release Generator
This form broke a few years after publication, and in July 2021 I disabled it completely. May it serve as a reminder producing spoofed content was once considered funny. I had some thoughts on cycling—on the honest-to-goodness racing of bicycles—earlier this week. But dang if I didn’t get a little distracted by the bellowing and…