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World Cup Blog Roundup

Here are some highlights from the blogosphere about the World Cup. If you are looking for the post with the World Cup blog links it can be found here.

  • Defeated by Ghana: USA needed a win but didn't get it.
  • Check out the World Cup gadgets and software tools. Engadget also looks at World Cup technology.
  • Dayorama is offering daily World Cup coverage. Ollie also started the DayoRimet after Dayorama fans nagged him by email for World Cup coverage: "On the right hand side of the homepage for the duration of the competition we'll be keeping score between the BBC and ITV coverage -- who'll get more goals? And every day I'll be posting a DayoRimet round-up of worthwhile World Cup tidbits I've found." The BBC is ahead of ITV as of this writing.
  • A very special thanks to Pravda for creating this article: Nostradamus predicts Spain as the winner of World Cup 2006.
  • Mark Evans explains how the Slingbox is useful.
  • Slashdot is discussing fears of an Internet meltdown caused by people streaming World Cup video.
  • A few international World Cup perspectives: Blogging Africa's World Cup, The Lusosphere and Turkey is Typing. The World Cup Blog also has a blog for every team such as the Brazil World Cup Team Blog.
  • Female World Cup viewership soars in the UK.
  • ReadersRead.com reports that Franklin Foer, the Editor of the New Republic and the author of How Soccer Explains The World, is also blogging about the World Cup.
  • Online game: Can you score a goal on Italy's great goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon?
  • High-Tech Socceroos: How good were the Socceroos against Brazil? They lost but at least the Socceroos are tech savvy.
  • A very interesting Adidas World Cup ad in Germany.
  • Jack Kemp praises Soccer. (via WorldViews)
  • The World Cup Blog is hosting a photo and video contest. Prizes include Umbro soccer balls.
  • The Simon chooses Soccer in a well-written essay: "Many American sports fans think the World Cup is too boring. But the drama and athletic skill are unparalleled -- and there aren't so many stupid commercials, either."
  • There is no Naked World Cup. It's a nasty worm trick!
  • Thai Monks succumb to World Cup hangovers. Thai Monks aren't the only people staying up late.
  • World Cup Blog Buzz: BlogPulse finds that the Germany, England, Brazil and Italy teams are generating the most buzz. BlogPulse also says the most cited World Cup sources are Handelsblatt.com, the BBC News and Sports Illustrated. (via Blogspotting)
  • LiveScience.com explains why goalies hate the new World Cup soccer ball.
  • There's a little love for World Cup mascot Goleo. There are about 600 Goleo posts according to Tecnorati.
  • Search Engine Journal explains Google's Soccer Scores plug-in for the Google Desktop.
  • Beijing Blogger Dong Lu has received over 10 million hits for his Chinese World Cup blog. (via The Blogging Times)
  • Coke has people blogging about the World Cup at We All Speak Football. Remember the Torino Conversations from the Olympic blogs? (Thx Blogspotting)
  • Japan won the World Cup!. No, not that World Cup. C'mon everyone knows the robots also have their own World Cup.
  • Some soccer sites may be hazardous to your PC. Sites about the Angolan team are the most likely to contain malware according the to they study. The danger appears to primarily be in screensaver websites.
  • Soccer: Seven ways to make people think you care.

    Posted on June 22, 2006
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  • Blogging the World Cup

    The 2006 World Cup is here. There are many bloggers discussing the game and rooting for their country's team. Mainstream media sites have also launched blogs dedicated to the World Cup. This post discusses a few items of interest to blogs and the World Cup. It also includes lists of blogs covering the World Cup. Note: when we refer to football in this post we are talking about soccer not American football. Like the name of one blog suggests: Footballs are Round. Footballs will always be round in our World Cup blog coverage and not oblong like in our Super Bowl coverage. Tony Karon at Mother Jones explains just how important this game is worldwide to its three billion viewers.
    No global event commands anything close to the attention paid the World Cup on all five continents. As many as 3 billion people are expected to watch some of it on TV, while 250 million more will cluster around radios to follow every play.
  • World Cup is the top search today on Technorati and one of the top tags. BlogPulse has a graph that shows how the World Cup dominates over other events like the NBA championships and the French Open.

  • The World Cup got off to a grim start when the manufacturer of the Goleo mascots went bust.

  • Adidas has made a special golden ball called Teamgeist Berlin for use in the final game. More about the Teamgeist ball can be found here.

  • Google also has some world cup scores and videos (via Search Engine Journal). Search Engine Watch reports that Google also has a World Cup logo and World Cup Module.

  • Health Risks: The World Cup Blog reports that watching the world cup could kill you. Hearts attacks rose 25% in England when their team was in the finals. (via The Blogging Times)

  • Boing Boing received a pre-emptive warning not to use soccer videos from a lawfirm. It made Boing Boing angry: "Oh brother. I don't even know what the FIFA World Cup is. I'm guessing it's soccer, which I hate just as much as any other pro sport. Every editor at Boing Boing detests professional sports, and we would sooner stream a video of a crumpled up paper napkin in the corner of a room than show some jackasses running after a ball."

  • Editor & Publisher reports that the New York Times will be liveblogging the World Cup. They already live blogged the opening ceremony.

  • Deadspin has a short roundup of some blogs and sites covering the World Cup.

  • SoccerBlogs.net is an aggregator of soccer blogs and you can follow headlines from multiple blogs as they are posted. A complete list of the blogs on Soccer Blogs can be found here.

  • The U.S. Soccer website can be found here. They also have a blog. It's located on the right side of the website. Here is how they describe their blog, which is called U.S. Soccer Blog: "For the 2006 FIFA World Cup, ussoccer.com is on the bus, in the meal room, at training, in the locker room and at the hotel to bring you those little tantalizing nuggets most people usually never find out."

  • The BootsnAll Travel Network has launched a World Cup Blog that features fan blogs written for all 32 teams competing in the World Cup. More about the launch of this blog network here.

  • Not so slow: The MSM is always as slow as everyone thinks. The Guardian had a blog for the 2002 World Cup. They are back this year with a blog for the 2006 World Cup.

    Here is a list of some new blogs launched specifically for the 2006 World Cup.

  • The Beautiful Game (IHT)
  • Blog Initiative World Cup Blog (Initiative)
  • Da World Cup Blog (Fox Sports)
  • Der Blog (ABC.net.au)
  • Fifa World Cup Blog (unofficial)
  • Goal Oriented - World Cup Blog
  • Goal Post (The New Republic Online)
  • Kicks' - Steve Davis' World Cup Blog (Belo)
  • Soccer Sweep (USA Today)
  • Soccerphile World Cup Blog
  • Unofficial Fifa World Cup Blog
  • USA World Cup 2006 Blog
  • Who Ate All the Bratwurst
  • WorldCupBlog.co.uk
  • World Cup 2006 News
  • World Cup Blog (BBC)
  • World Cup Blog (BootsnAll)
  • World Cup Blog (Globe and Mail)
  • World Cup Blog (The Guardian)
  • A World Cup Blog by Brian Ching (Houston Chronicle)
  • World Cup Blog (Spiegel Online)
  • The World Cup Blog (NY Daily News)
  • World Cup Blog (New York Times)
  • World Cup Blog (New Zealand Herald)
  • World Cup Blog (SAFC.com)
  • World Cup Blog (WBEW)
  • World Cup Corner
  • World Cup Fevah
  • World Cup Football News
  • The World Cup Roundtable
  • World Cup Soccer Blog (Boston Globe)
  • World Cup Soccer Fan Blog (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
  • 2006 World Cup Today Blog
  • 2006 World Cup Soccer (CBS)
  • World Cup Watch (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
  • World Cup Journal (Washington Post)
  • World Cup Soccerbawl (Denver Post)

    There are also blogs that cover soccer (football) frequently and naturally these blogs will also cover the World Cup. Here are few of these dedicated soccer blogs.

  • BigSoccer.com
  • Bitter and Blue
  • Blog Football
  • BlogFC
  • Deadspin (Gawker)
  • Football kNuts
  • Footballs are Round
  • Football365.com
  • Footballspectator
  • Footie Girl
  • The Footie (b5media)
  • Last Kick
  • My Soccer Blog
  • SoccerBlog.com
  • The Soccer Daily (USNSTPA)
  • The Soccer Weblog
  • Soccerati (b5media)
  • Sportolysis
  • That's On Point
  • ThroughBall.com
  • We Call it Soccer

    We have added a World Cup Blog section where you will be able to find this post and any new posts we make about the 2006 World Cup.

    Posted on June 9, 2006
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