I found this handy little webapp for managing recreational sports teams [Team Check-in]. With Team Check-in, you can manage teams, players, games, dues, fields, see upcoming and past game results and send updates and nofications to your team via email. Basically, it does everything that a manager would need to keep things running smoothly. The site creator built it for his own use and to demonstrate his knowledge of OSS development tools. The app seems very logically laid out and would certainly be a useful tool for team managers. However, at $10 per month, I don't think too many rec teams will be interested. I really don't think that is a lot for a team, split between 14+ players, but I think it will be a deciding factor. 9:53:09 PM    comment []  

I had heard some vicious rumor that there was a site out there that you could use to find teams to sub for in the Seattle Co-Rec soccer league. Well, I haven't found that site yet, but I found the weblog of a player in the league [cholstro.net]. His weblog is well put together and he regularly gets a few comments on his postings, but he hit Google paydirt last month with one of his posts [Stacy's Mom Has Got It Going On]. With 595 comments on that post and counting he's got to be really surprised.

I need to seed a couple of posts with interesting keywords to generate some Google traffic. Not that I need the traffic or anything (it's not like anyone actually wants to read my weblog), but it would be fun. Maybe I could sprinkle in some words from Google Zeitgeist, like "marie trintignant", "superenalotto" and "kim bordenave". I don't know who or what any of those things are, but according to Google they're pretty hot. But then, on second thought, maybe I won't do that. 9:25:46 PM    comment []