Ted proves, once again, he knows his stuff

Just got back from New Orleans and was excited and overwhelmed to see this in an interview with Caps owner Ted Leonsis that appeared in the Washington Post Sunday Source:

The team has been quick to embrace new media formats, such as podcasts and blogs. What advantages do you see in them?

Three things: One, if you are writing a blog, and you are religious about it, and you are updating every day or every week, you are obviously a great fan, and we need to reward great fans. Two, the blogosphere is important because bloggers communicate with one another, and they show up very high in search engines. Third, the traditional media are having to cut expenses. Some of the big-city newspapers, thankfully not ours, aren't even allowing reporters to travel with the teams.

Are there any blogs you recommend?

http://capsnut.blogspot.com , http://dcsportschick.blogspot.com , http://www.ericmcerlain.com/offwingopinion and http://www.japersrink.blogspot.com . Those are good ones locally.

I sure appreciate the recommendation! Will do my best to keep things interesting and up-to-date, which is getting harder and harder lately. Speaking of which, I may have some fun stuff to share later this week if there's no conflicts with work and I'm able to attend the Caps media luncheon. (It was so nice of the Caps to extend the invitation.)

Here's a pic from New Orleans: the Superdome, of course. Fred and I walked around it yesterday and noticed some dings here and there, but it looked good overall. Fred will likely have a writeup of the trip over at 1/2 Asian Man at some point. We saw Santa at Cafe du Monde on Friday, and almost walked on a passed-out dude lying on Bourbon Street at 2 p.m. this afternoon. Some nice person laid a white tablecloth over him as he slept. At least I hope he was sleeping. You never know on Bourbon Street.