Comments on: Introducing the American Football Newsreader http://fantasyfootballgoat.com/2008/03/05/introducing-the-american-football-newsreader/ Ideas for Your Fantasy Football Success... and Anything Else NFL Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:50:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Corey Koehler http://fantasyfootballgoat.com/2008/03/05/introducing-the-american-football-newsreader/#comment-2226 Corey Koehler Fri, 07 Mar 2008 02:32:42 +0000 http://fantasyfootballgoat.com/2008/03/05/introducing-the-american-football-newsreader/#comment-2226 Lee that has to be the longest comments ever. lol THAT SAID, every word of it is true. Thanks for adding your thoughts. Corey Lee that has to be the longest comments ever. lol

THAT SAID, every word of it is true. Thanks for adding your thoughts.

Corey

]]> By: Lee http://fantasyfootballgoat.com/2008/03/05/introducing-the-american-football-newsreader/#comment-2206 Lee Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:41:35 +0000 http://fantasyfootballgoat.com/2008/03/05/introducing-the-american-football-newsreader/#comment-2206 "After you download this puppy you immediately start getting information. From then on the second something new is posted from one of the feeds, a little box pops out of the bottom right hand corner of your computer to let you now about it. Very slick." As you know Corey I have been taking this for a test run myself. The above quote is exactly how I came across this post. It pooped up on my screen in the bottom right. You can also add a sound to it. I thought about adding some cheering fans or a refs whistle, something football related, but have not got to it yet. One of the things I like about it is the video search. For example, I typed in "NFL Draft" and it searches diferent video hosts and the videos popped into the reader and I could watch them right there. Worked the same with Podcasts. Now that I think about it, you can subscribe to a search so I guess that would be one way to track your players if you did a search on them. In my view this reader is perfect for someone that is not familiar with RSS or has been "scared" to venture into the technology. It has the mainstream feeds built in and is functional from the get go. Optional feeds from teams and some very good blogs included (also has a blog search funtion). When I did my write up on it a girl I know who is a big sports fan, blogger, who has a vision impairment thought this thing was great because she doesn't have to enter things herself. The downside, as you mentioned, a download. People are moving away from that for the reasons you stated. Another is that if I don't want to read a certain article I want to be able to make it go away never to return and I have not found a way to do this yet without it having to rotate through the settings I have for how many articles to have viewable. They have the time before the season to tweek this thing if they want to. Could be a very valuable tool as is but even more so with a little work. “After you download this puppy you immediately start getting information. From then on the second something new is posted from one of the feeds, a little box pops out of the bottom right hand corner of your computer to let you now about it. Very slick.”

As you know Corey I have been taking this for a test run myself. The above quote is exactly how I came across this post. It pooped up on my screen in the bottom right. You can also add a sound to it. I thought about adding some cheering fans or a refs whistle, something football related, but have not got to it yet.

One of the things I like about it is the video search. For example, I typed in “NFL Draft” and it searches diferent video hosts and the videos popped into the reader and I could watch them right there. Worked the same with Podcasts.

Now that I think about it, you can subscribe to a search so I guess that would be one way to track your players if you did a search on them.

In my view this reader is perfect for someone that is not familiar with RSS or has been “scared” to venture into the technology. It has the mainstream feeds built in and is functional from the get go. Optional feeds from teams and some very good blogs included (also has a blog search funtion). When I did my write up on it a girl I know who is a big sports fan, blogger, who has a vision impairment thought this thing was great because she doesn’t have to enter things herself.

The downside, as you mentioned, a download. People are moving away from that for the reasons you stated. Another is that if I don’t want to read a certain article I want to be able to make it go away never to return and I have not found a way to do this yet without it having to rotate through the settings I have for how many articles to have viewable.

They have the time before the season to tweek this thing if they want to. Could be a very valuable tool as is but even more so with a little work.

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