Sports site is keeping score

Many diehard sports fans have bookmarked sites to keep track of a favorite team.

Bleacherreport, a fairly new site, is a collection of online sports writing by both professional bloggers and well-informed superfans. If an online forum to reach other readers is what you crave, this is one place to test your chops.

Like many such sites, writers can gain “karma,” or expert status, based on the ratings their work inspires from site readers. We’ve scoured the site and don’t see any top-drawer talent there, but by and large the quality is high compared with what one usually finds at mainstream fan gathering spots.

The site has a streamlined, nicely organized presentation. You can dive through sports categories, then by team, or you can browse via topics or most-viewed stories.

With spring training and March Madness around the corner, this already busy site will be buzzing over the next few months.

Angryjournalist.com

With the newspaper business these days floundering and looking for answers, it’s no surprise some disgruntled types decided to launch Angryjournalist. It’s sort of an online corner bar, where people can post anonymous comments about the news industry.

Here’s the mission statement: “AngryJournalist.com is for the underpaid, overworked, frustrated … and ignored media professionals to publicly and anonymously vent their anger. Share your story. With any luck, you’ll feel better.” So far, about 600 comments are posted there.

So far the .TXT staff hasn’t posted a comment. Unless it was the oddly upbeat message we saw, which said: “I don’t know about the rest of you folks. But I’m totally happy with my situation.”

Blist.com

Databases, by definition, tend to be sprawling files with complex options.

Blist, a Seattle startup, claims it offers an online database system that makes data collection and database management something even a Luddite could do.

We like what we saw there, but didn’t give it more than a quick test-drive.

We suspect this is a possible solution for those among us who love to create online directories for complex matters – fantasy baseball leagues or wedding planning, for instance.

For sure, it seems to operate much more easily than using Microsoft Access, for instance.