{"id":760,"date":"2008-04-22T08:30:38","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T12:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/04\/22\/sources-for-2008-tdg-coverage\/"},"modified":"2008-04-22T08:59:06","modified_gmt":"2008-04-22T12:59:06","slug":"sources-for-2008-tdg-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/04\/22\/sources-for-2008-tdg-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources for 2008 TdG Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I am pleased that Google thinks I&#8217;m worth <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Tour+de+Georgia+2008&amp;hl=en&amp;safe=off&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;hs=15n&amp;start=10&amp;sa=N\">a second page listing<\/a> for 2008 TdG coverage (behind VeloNews, but ahead of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution!), there are obviously a lot of other (and undeniably better) sources of excellent reporting out there.   In addition to the usual and reliable <a href=\"http:\/\/velonews.com\">VeloNews<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/\">CyclingNews<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/PezCyclingNews.com\">PezCyclingNews<\/a> stops, I expect I&#8217;ll be regularly checking out a number of other sites in the next week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kwc.org\/cycling\/\">KWC.org<\/a> &#8211; Ken Conley is on location and shooting away.  He&#8217;s also asking the hard questions &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/kwc.org\/cycling\/\">So, DZ, how *do* you choose between the Tour de France and Comic-con<\/a>?  Ken also <a href=\"http:\/\/kwc.org\/cycling\/tour_de_georgia_2008\/tdg_36_hours_to_departure.html\">seems keen<\/a> to have a chance to justify his <a href=\"http:\/\/kwc.org\/cycling\/photography\/latest_gear_aquatech_sports_sh.html\">recent $200 rain gear purchase<\/a>.  Yeah, can you get that out of the way before me and my plastic bags get there?  Thanks.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gamjams.net\">GamJams<\/a> is hosting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamjams.net\/youve_been_cooked\/index.html\">a series of reports<\/a> by 2008 TdG racer and Health Net rider Matt Cooke.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/steephill.tv\/\">Steephill.tv<\/a> remains a model of what the dedicated fan can do.  More like this, please.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/missingsaddle.com\">MissingSaddle.com<\/a> is always a good source of inside-the-peloton perspective.  Its roster of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.missingsaddle.com\/blogs.php\">actively blogging pro-riders<\/a> is pretty impressive.  And it looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikesayers.missingsaddle.com\/\">BMC&#8217;s Mike Sayers<\/a> (current TdG racer) has just signed on.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slipstreamsports.com\/\">Slipstream site<\/a>.   One could not ask for a better team site.   You think I&#8217;m kidding?  Check <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slipstreamsports.com\/category\/millar-diaries\/\">this new David Millar diary out<\/a>.  Honestly like that is rare anywhere, nevermind on a team&#8217;s own site.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And there is, of course, the place where you should be already &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/podiumcafe.com\/\">PodiumCafe<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 In addition to my articles, you&#8217;ll get lots of community insight and analysis from long time fans a lot smarter than me.\u00c2\u00a0 I still get the feeling that I&#8217;m forgetting a few.  Help me out?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I am pleased that Google thinks I&#8217;m worth a second page listing for 2008 TdG coverage (behind VeloNews, but ahead of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution!), there are obviously a lot of other (and undeniably better) sources of excellent reporting out there. In addition to the usual and reliable VeloNews, CyclingNews, and PezCyclingNews stops, I expect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}