In case you've been wondering about that Fox Sports logo on the sidebar, I'm happy to announce that selected posts from this blog will now be featured at Fox Sports NHL, alongside the work of Spector and Mike Chen. All articles will still be posted here first, but hopefully this will provide another gateway to bring more hockey fans into what is a burgeoning online community of blogs. Thanks to all of you for your visits, comments, and constructive criticism, and have a Happy New Year...
In my never-ending quest to figure out a model for making what is currently my hobby & passion into something bringing in at least a side income, I've decided to set a couple goals for myself to complete during the rest of 2011. Simply put, I plan to publish two products over the next few months, which I hope will provide real value to hockey fans, and that they'll be willing to pay for. Will it succeed? Will it fail? The only way to know is to put my nose to the grindstone and get these two things done (I'll keep the details under my hat for now). The important thing to note is that these efforts are in addition to anything I'm doing over at OTF . Taking away what we're doing over there and asking people to pay for it is a surefire lose-lose all the way around, because if there's anything we've learned over the last few years, it's that people love to read about sports, but only for free. I'm also optimistic about Hockey Gea...