KU Blog Media

A Fourth Blog Is Discovered

While doing a little "research" over the weekend, I stumbled upon another Jayhawk sports blog -- Jayhawk Nation. Looks like they've been in business for over a year and they get quite a bit of discussion going on. Another great resource for KU fans. Here's the full run down of KU blogs I know about:

Hawk Digest - Focused on Kansas football
Jayhawk Nation - Appears to be all KU sports with an emphasis on basketball
Phog Blog - The big one. Definitely geared toward Kansas basketball, but they'll comment on the other sports as well
Rock Chalk Talk - Best all-around KU sports coverage
AOL Fanhouse (Kansas Tag) - Recently figured that this link is a pretty good resource for KU football and Big 12 News (added 7/21/07)

I'd also like to mention that as far as the internet and "Web 2.0"  has come I feel like the search engines are pretty off base in the way they operate. If I search Kansas sports blogs, I should be able to find all four of the blogs listed above. I don't care how much optimization or links they have -- I want to see every blog on KU sports, with the one that has the highest traffic listed first. I find it insane that Hawk Digest doesn't even come up under Kansas Football Blog on Google. Yes, I know there's a whole job set based on boosting your ranking and some fairly simple tricks that do a world of good. Still, Google and Yahoo! as a search tool seem outdated. To me, they're both pretty inefficient, advertised search engines. That being said, I would guess that there are more unknown KU blogs out there. If you are aware of one, please post a comment with link and I'll add it to this entry and to my blog roll.

Back on KU resources, I thought I should note that I am aware that the newsfeeds aren't hitting my own "Jayhawk Network" page. I had a host company go out of business on me. I'll get it corrected, but I'm looking to improve the overall speed of the page as well.

Comments

[C D]

It is great KU is off to a great start ,I will say 8ws and 4ls.Please bring on Guss from Tulsa as head coach to bring KU to real time football.He will do very well where ever he ends up as head coach.Clint

[DJ Goodwin]

I'm lookin' for a little more than eight wins, but October 6 should give us a good barometer.

[Fritz]

Are you nuts? Mangino painstakingly builds KU to go 5-0, and beat K-State AT HOME (the team that just whipped up on Texas), and you want to bring in Guss??? To "bring KU to real time football"? What are you smokin' dude? KU is for real, and Coach Mangino is the architect.

DJ, I Googled "jayhawk sports blog" to see what's around and you popped right up.

[DJ Goodwin]

Fritz, glad to have you on board. Every year the program looks a little more solid. 2006 was frustrating, but maybe that close game experience paid off yesterday.