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Tag: Media
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.
The Stunning 9/11 Tribute That Maybe Wasn’t
On September 27th, 2001, Filippo Simeoni soloed clear of a breakaway on Stage 18 of the Vuelta a España. Barely a meter from the finish, he took the unusual step of dismounting his bike, holding it aloft, and kissing the top-tube, before walking across for the stage win. He was fined for this—and here we…
Fixing VeloNews’ Dead Links: 2021 Edition
As part of the Cyclocosm revamp earlier this month, I’ve been working on a small JavaScript project. It scans whatever page it’s on for old, likely-broken VeloNews links, and fixes them on the fly. You can learn more about it here: If this feels at all familiar, you’re right! Back in 2011, I put together…
Why the Tour de France *Really* Doesn’t Want You to See This YouTube Wheelie
The single best thing I saw at the 2021 Tour de France had nothing to do with the bike race. Nearly half an hour after Sepp Kuss left Alejandro Valverde floundering on the slopes of Col de Beixalis, Max Walscheid (yes, that Max Walscheid) used them to casually lay down this ridiculous 570 foot wheelie:…
New Blog, Who Dis?
By any meaningful digital metric, Cyclocosm is old. It started as a side project of my long-dead “regular” blog in 2005, when there was no Twitter, a cutting edge “cell” phone could play an eight-track ringtone, and a George Hincapie Roubaix win seemed orders of magnitude likelier than a Lance Armstrong confession. (Some of you…
On The Passing of Cycling.TV
Last week, numerous cycling outlets reported that Cycling.TV, long-time online broadcaster of Euro cycling events, would be shutting down forever in a little less than a month. The company’s message to subscribers ran thusly: Cycling.TV regrets to inform you that as of November 3, 2017 we will cease operations. As set forth in Clause 4…
A Twitter Thread on Eurosport, NBCSN, and Cycling TV Coverage
This calls for a [THREAD] /1 https://t.co/C4kI3mva5v — Cyclocosm.com (@Cyclocosm) September 27, 2017 Eurosport is the best cycling broadcaster in any language I speak, in part because they’ve been doing it forever: https://t.co/qB963kpMib /2 — Cyclocosm.com (@Cyclocosm) September 27, 2017 While it may *feel* like NBCSN’s been around forever, it’s only existed since 2012. And…
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…