Sports Buzz How does this week's Penn State cover compare to the steroids, gambling, murder and animal cruelty that's adorned past Sports Illustrated covers?
Culture Buzz The moose knuckles of Bode Miller and Andrew Weibrecht are mysteriously absent on the cover of this month's issue of Sports Illustrated. BuzzFeed investigates…
They put a scantily clad woman on the cover of a sporting magazine! Oh, they do that every year. Fun fact: She's married to Andy Roddick, who has a Twitter account, on which he's written about her being scantily clad and stuff.
Colbert Nation is the official sponsor of U.S. speedskating, so this really reeks of a paid cover placement.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/magazine/12/02/tablet/
First the Kindle, then the Nook, now Time Inc. has unveiled their own touch screen interactive Tablet with a video demonstration of a tabletized Sports Illustrated. Features include being able to re-arrange the pages in the order you want to read them, more photos, a social media integration for sharing articles and video elements (think swimsuit issue). The link takes you to a pretty cool video explaining everything.
The cover of Sports Illustrated features Michael Phelps displaying his 8 gold medals. He is posing like the classic Mark Spitz photo but makes up for the lack of a sexy mustache with one additional gold.
Tech Buzz An amazing panoramic shot of Yankee Stadium from the gigapan project, which allows users to upload and zoom in on gigapixel panoramas in brilliant detail. It’s a robotic device that attaches to any standard consumer digital camera. I smell a photo contest! Start experimenting now with the technology by playing with this photo of the Yankee Stadium taken on July 4th.