It just gets better every day. If England not qualifying guarantees this level of football, then I'll cope with them never qualifying again. And kudos to the Boston Globe for putting those photos up in that format. They'll never look quite so good on newsprint, or shrunk down to normal 'web size'.
The Big Picture is a fairly new blog, but I love the concept, and Taylor has the kind of eye to make this work spectacularly well. I'd love to see a few more curators with access to the raw newswire photo feed putting the best of the best ones online. It would only help promote the art of photojournalism, and if we've learned anything about online promotion, it's that the paradox of "the more you give away, the more you sell" really holds true.
I thought the Euros had lost their spark after the first half of Turkey Czech last night. I turned the TV off and drove my girlfriend back to London. I've always been a superb forecaster of these things. The major benefit for the non-England fan watching English coverage of the tournament while England AREN'T in it is that sometimes (though still not as often as I'd like) the pundits manage to talk whole sentences without asking one another, "But what does this mean for England, Terry?" I too am loving the format of the blog, even if Drood can only see little versions on his tiny screen (should we have a whip round to get him a bigger one?).
(Note: I posted the above before I read this NYT story about the AP finally forming a policy about how to deal with their material being clipped for use in blogs, which I mention here because (a) it's vaguely relevant to the creation of this photoblog, and (b) it features a nice little quote from our own #5.)
But Rogers Cadenhead, the owner of the Drudge Retort and several other Web sites... They didn't even mention the Pope!
I thought the Euros had lost their spark after the first half of Turkey Czech last night. I turned the TV off and drove my girlfriend back to London. I've always been a superb forecaster of these things. Ha!
I might have mentioned the Pope, but I think I got away with it...
That Turkey v Czech game might have been game of the tourney. Altho, I'm probably saying that coz I missed that Netherlands thumping of France. (I did get to watch Netherlands thumping Italy - oh, sweet sweet soccer schadenfreude.)
No, it was better than Netherlands v. France. That had almost no drama, except for me wondering if Thierry Henry was going to hear the ESPN color man's comments and come into the booth a la Milton Bradley. Jesus that color guy is sour.
