The Intersection of Online and Offline

I have found an outlet for my other passion in life:  my beloved Boston Red Sox. 

My pal and all-around good guy/Media Magnate, Chip Griffin, has revived his all-things-Boston-sports blog, Boston Hardball.  Yours truly will be opining, whining and teeth-grinding like only New England sports fans can.

Chip is a great writer and I will be chiming in from time to time.

Someone once told me to find what I love doing in life and try to make it my profession and then I will be rich.  Let’s see where this takes me.  NESN:  are you listening?  Does Heidi Watney need a partner?

I’ll volunteer.

Mark

I found this in Krishna De’s excellent “Social Media Weekly Digest” and all I could think of is that this is the true incarnation of how the new offline is, well, online.  People vote with their feet, their paychecks and their future, and that is apparently what Peter Barron of the BBC is doing;  he is set to join Google as head of communications and public affairs for the UK, Ireland and Benelux regions.

This may not seem major, but I am seeing more and more of it, just in the last few days.

One of my favorite sportswriters, Gordon Edes of the Boston Globe, is leaving Boston’s premier paper to become the national baseball writer for Yahoo! Sports.  Sweet gig.

It’s happening. In dribs and drabs, but it’s happening, as more communicators cross over from traditional to online.  Now if someone could just let me get Gordon’s job covering the Sox, I’d be one happy camper.

Mark