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Written by tecmo   
Thursday, 09 July 2009 13:43

One useful website for sportsblog writers and readers is Ballhype. It collects the top sports stories from the information superhighway and gets it all in one place for you.

Yesterday, the Ballhype page for the TK and Tanger doing the weather story made its way through the front page of Ballhype thanks to a link from my friends at Sports Rubbish. When a blog post gets a link, Ballhype picks it up, and associates tags to its content.

If you look at the screencap above, Ballhype recognizes NHL and Hines Ward as being a part of that story. Now, Hines only played a bit part in it, but I'll give them credit. However, I'm not sure why Kris Draper was added...unless you count him and his Red Wings losing to the Pens as integral to TK and Letang's weather report.

And then there's Tyler Hansbrough. Me typing that right here, right now, is the first time he's even been mentioned on this site. Pittsburgh fans have little interest in terribly annoying NBA draft picks, and I'm sure NBA fans have little interest in a city like Pittsburgh that has no professional basketball presence.

But I guess I appreciate the help. And if any NBA fans accidentally find themselves here thanks to Ballhype's mixup...welcome. Consider this your introduction to Pittsburgh sports. And mini ponies.

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written by sports forum, July 23, 2009
Sometimes technology tries to be too smart smilies/smiley.gif

Looks like Kris Draper was picked up because of "Kris Letang" and Tyler Hansbrough because of "Tyler Kennedy" mentioned there. Their suggested tags probably just figured those names were involved because of the first names.

We actually talked about this at a forum I frequent but for another post from the weekend. A piece about some soccer player named Carlos something was linked to Beltran for no apparent reason.

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