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Bridge Blogs - Weblogs
There is a medium for bridge correspondence on the Internet, which is becoming more and more popular. The individual player has the ability to post personal bridge-related experiences on the Internet in the form of a weblog, and which is accessible to the general public.
In order to discover the fascination of this medium, any bridge player can visit the following, or other and similar, websites on the web and find out how to begin a blog: Beginner's Guide to Blogs.
Terminology is often confusing and several of the used terms are listed below with definitions, which may or may not have evolved into something newer, more advanced. It is important to remember even in the world of software that the wise man did state that "progress is change" and that "evolution will not stand still".
Blog definition: A blog is a frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and Web links. A blog is often a mixture of what is happening in a person's life and what is happening on the Web, a kind of hybrid diary/guide site, although there are as many unique types of blogs as there are people.
People maintained blogs long before the term was coined, but the trend gained momentum with the introduction of automated published systems, most notably Blogger at blogger.com. Thousands of people use services such as Blogger to simplify and accelerate the publishing process.
Blogs are alternatively called web logs or weblogs. However, "blog" seems less likely to cause confusion, as "web log" can also mean a server's log files.
Audiocasting definition: Audiocasting is also designated as streaming audio. This is a one-way audio transmission over a data network. It is widely used on the Web as well as private intranets to deliver audio on demand or an audio broadcast (Internet radio). Unlike sound files (WAV, MP3, etc.) that are played after they are downloaded, streaming audio is played within a few seconds of requesting it, and the data is not stored permanently in the computer. If the streaming audio is broadcast live, then it may be called "realtime audio." However, technically, realtime means no delays, and there is a built-in delay in streaming audio.
Podcasting definition: Podcasting, created by former MTV VJ Adam Curry, is a term that was devised as a crisp way to describe the technology used to push audio content from websites down to consumers of that content, who typically listen to it on their iPod (hence the "pod") or other audio player that supports mp3 at their convenience. The term podcasting is meant to rhyme with broadcasting and is a derivative of the iPod platform. While not directly associated with Apples iPod device or iTunes music service, the company did contribute both the desire and the technology for this capability.
Podcasting is not unlike time-shifted video software and devices like TiVo, which let you watch what you want when you want by recording and storing video, except that podcasting is used for audio and is currently free of charge. Note, however, that this technology can be used to push any kind of file, including software updates, pictures, and videos.
Screencast definition: Origin of the designation: In 2004, columnist Jon Udell invited readers of his blog to propose names for the emerging genre. Udell selected the term screencast, which was proposed by both Joseph McDonald and Deeje Cooley.A screencast is a digital recording of computer screen output, often containing audio narration. Although the term screencast dates from 2004, products such as Lotus ScreenCam were used as early as 1993. Early products produced large files and had limited editing features. More recent products support more compact file formats such as Macromedia Flash and have more sophisticated editing features allowing changes in sequence, mouse movement, and audio. Just as a screenshot is a picture of a user's screen, a screencast is essentially a movie of what a user sees on their monitor. Screencasts are useful for demonstrating software features.
Video Podcast definition: Video podcast (sometimes shortened to vidcast or vodcast) is a term used for the online delivery of video on demand video clip content via Atom or RSS enclosures. The term is an evolution specialized for video, coming from the generally audio-based podcast and referring to the distribution of video where the RSS feed is used as a non-linear TV channel to which consumers can subscribe using a PC, TV, set-top box, media center or mobile multimedia device).
Following are several bridge-related blogs already established on the web. Any reader or visitor wishing to add any bridge-related blogs or weblogs to this list are welcomed. Your input and information would be greatly appreciated. However, please do remember that Bridge Forums and Bulletin Boards are different mediums and do not belong on this list.
In order to search the Internet for Blogs, click on the above icon.
PodZinger is the world's most powerful audio and video search engine and online advertising network - aka EveryZing. Using speech recognition technology, PodZinger searches words within both audio and video, not just the metadata, to classify content based on topic and usage. For consumers, PodZinger is the only search engine that allows users to find audio and video content based on keyword searches and then skim the results for relevance the same way they would for text. Consumers can then "jump-to" a specific location in the audio and video without fast forwarding or listening to the entire file.
Batemans Bay Bridge Club - Kathy Madden. 2006. Australia. Batemans Bay is on the south NSW coast in the Eurobodalla Shire. The Bridge Club has it's own premises at 52A Orient Street Batemans Bay, parking is at the rear in Bent Street.
BBO Inquiry - Personal Log of Bridge Player known as Inquiry on Bridgebase Online. Site solely for bridge-related materials and will include preferred agreements, interesting hands, and notes on games played. June 2005. Washington, D.C., United States.
BBO Fun - A bridge blog created by Team Members of the BBO Fun Club since April 2007. fractal is the designation employed under Profile.
Bridge Club Ideas - Founded by Mr. Joe Ridyard, Culcheth, Nr. Warrington, United Kingdom. November 2005. This site has been set up to allow players to suggest ways to improve the quality of Bridge Competitions. If you have any ideas that work well for your club, please e-mail them to me and I will post them here. Or, you can post comments on existing ideas.
bridge club blogs has also been founded by Mr. Joe Ridyard, Culcheth, Nr. Warrington, United Kingdom. The blog is set up to allow people running bridge club sites (especially as blogs) to share ideas. This arose from my own interest in doing this and from responses to my letter in Bridge magazine. I hope people will feel free to ask questions and share expertise so that we can all benefit from the increased interest and communication produced.
Bridge Club of Center City - This blog is included although it is only a Forum for Members of the Bridge Club of Center City. Members click on Forum at the bottom of the home page in order to access and post to the blog.
BridgeHands - Mr. Michael Nistler. 2006. Michael Nistler offers also podcasts or podcasting and audiocasting.
Introducing our BridgeHands Interview Audiocast - September 20, 2006
BridgeHands Interview with Eddie Kantar, Part 1 - October 16, 2006
BridgeHands Interview with Eddie Kantar, Part 2 - November 3, 2006
BridgeHands Interview with Jude Goodwin - November 14, 2006
BridgeHands Interview with Gerry Fox, Part I - Bridge Cruise Director Super Agent - March 29, 2007
BridgeHands Interview with Gerry Fox, Part II - Bridge Cruise Director Super Agent - March 30, 2007
BridgeHands Interview with Gerry Fox, Part III - Bridge Cruise Director Super Agent - August 18, 2007
Bridge Is Cool - Dealing With Develin - Mr. Mike Develin. May 2006. Berkely, California, United States.
Bridge Master - Paparazzi - Jo Somebody, Abigail Rhode. March 2004.
Bridge Matters - Mr. Glen Ashton. August 2005. Ottowa, Ontario, Canada. Mr. Glen Ashton was the Research and Connections Officer for Canada's Teams in the World 2005 Championships, assisting the players, their captains, and coaches. For additional information on Mr. Glen Ashton, visit his website.
Bridge Review - Mr. Peter Allen, together with Mr. Jacob Martin, both of England, has created a bridge blog for discussion of online bridge. February 2007. Emphasis is mainly on Basic Acol Bridge, but other features of the game are also discussed in detail by contributors.
Cocktail Bridge - Mr. Frano Jancic of Dubrovnik, Croatia. The first message is dated July 26, 2004. In Croatian and also in English. We apologize in advance for the inability to present the correct characters in writing the surname of Frano, but our software is unable to reproduce these letters. As stated by Frano: "This blog presents interesting points from the world of Croatian bridge. Enjoy a cocktail of news, funny tales and interesting boards. Please bring some good board with you to share with us!"
Culcheth Daten Bridge Club Warrington UK - Founded by Mr. Joe Ridyard and contributor is Doris Friar. A blog magazine for Daten Bridge Club members and all bridge players. Find results, annual prize-winners, bridge tips, and news of members.
EBU Official Blog - The Bridge Blog for the English Bridge Union.
EBU Selections And International Blog - The reader may now post comments on this Blog sponsored by the English Bridge Union.
EBU Youth Blog - The Bridge Blog for younger bridge players sponsored by the English Bridge Union.
English Bridge Union - Barry Capal's Blog - Barry Capal. July 2006.
Peters Bridge - Mr. Peter Rowlett. Halesworth, Suffolk, United Kingom. July 2006.
Gerben's Bridge Blog - Mr. Gerben Dirksen, Tu"bingen Germany. August 2005.
Squeezing The Dummy - Mr. Justin Lall. June 2005. Plano, Texas, United States.
Tyler's Bridge Blog - Mr. Tyler Eaves. November 2006. Greenfield, North Carolina, United States.
Bridge Tales - Mr. Jinzhou. July 2005. Singapore. I am starting this blog primarily to record the hands/details of Singapore youth team performance in the World Youth Championships 2006 in Bangkok so that these wonderful memories wouldn't be lost. I plan to do a match by match recount of what happened in our fairytale run. It is meant to be an entertaining narrative, not that instructive as a bridge guide, feel free to comment!(Please excuse my grammatical errors though). I pay tribute to my great teammates: Poon Hua, Kelvin, Liyu, Fabian and Alex. Everyone played an important role to our success, although we didnt win it, I believe we did ourselves proud and we tried our best. The most important thing is that we enjoyed the process.
The Beer Card - Created by Paul, located at Scottish Borders, in August 2006. According to Paul, this is my blog about bridge in the real and on-line world.
DavidC's Bridge Blog - Created by David Collier of Manchester, United Kingdom, in December 2006. The original focus of this blog was a series of posts on general bidding theory.
Free at the Bridge Table - Created by Frederick Staelens of Belgium, April 2006.
Gavin Wolpert's Bridge Blog - Created by Gavin Wolpert of Ontario, Canada, March 2007, self-described as a bridge professional and avid poker player.
Anna's Blog - Created by Anna Gudge of ECats Bridge, January 2007.
Views From The Bridge Table - Created by Ulf Nilsson, Sweden, February 2007.
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Korbel Bridge Adventures - Created by Susie and Daniel Korbel, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, October 2006. Daniel Korbel has represented Canada three times on international junior teams (twice with Susie), captained the 2007 Canadian Seniors Bowl team in Shanghai, won the GNT-A in 2006, won countless regional and sectional events, and has had several high finishes in National events. He is a Gold Life Master. His goals include winning the CNTC in the near future and representing Canada in the Bermuda Bowl.
The Rueful Rabbit - Created by Rueful Rabbit, a journeyman bridge player serving the general bridge community, particularly the Republic of Ireland, the Republic or Cork and Northern Island. May 2007.
The Hideous Hog - Created by David of Ireland, May 2007. Quote: I'm David an Irish junior struggling to master this game. In contrast The Hideous Hog is a player of huge talents and experience. A player who's life's aim is to extort money from poor player. Though, he is in fact caught out occasionally, but he will always blames his partner.
The Little Imp - Created by Noel Murphy (aka Murphyslaw) of Dublin, Ireland, May 2007.
Eamons Ireland Bridge Stuff - Created by Eamon Galligan of Dublin, Ireland, March 2006.
Vang on Bridge - Created by Vang, April 2007.
Cuebidding At Bridge - Created by Key Rexford of Lima, Ohio, January 2007.
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly - Created by Jonathan Ferguson, April 2007.
JennBridge - Created by Jennifer Jones, May 2007.
JoostJa online bridge - Created by Joost Jacob of Leiden, The Netherlands, August 2005.
Badmonster's Bridge Log - A Beginner's Journey - January 2006. Provided Name: Badmonster's Bridge Log - A Beginner's Journey.
rjc.bridge.club - tzmatthew (2006), shihhsien (2006 - Singapore) - Shen Ting, shrug, SnOwZ, teakrystal (2007), aardbrake (2006).
Clairebridge - Created by Martel Claire. Welcome to my Blog, created as an interactive area attached to the web site Clairebridge.com. In French and English.
2007 world bridge championships - Created by David Stern, Captain of the Australia Open Team competing for the Bermuda Bowl World Bridge Championship in Shanghai. September/October 2007.
Bridge Blogging - Created by Bloggers Linda Lee, Ray Lee, and Mark Horton. This is a portal for bridge bloggers and offers the opportunity to co-blog with personal blogs.
Timpies BridgeCorner - Created by Tim, July 2006. The Netherlands.
de Volkskrant - Created by Kees Tammens of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 2006. In Dutch.
I Love This Game - Created by Kathryn, January 2007, of Vancouver, Canada.
Confederacion Sudamericana de Bridge - Created by Fernando Lema of Argentina, September 2007.
Roy Hughes Bridge Blog - Roy Hughes is the author of several bridge books including Canada's Bridge Warriors, which won the IBPA Book of the Year award for 2007. His first book, Building a Bidding System, was runner-up for the IBPA Book of the Year in 2005, and his second book, Card By Card, was nominated for the 2006 award. Roy Hughes lives in Toronto, Canada.
Chilli Bidding - Located in North Marston, United Kingdom, Alan Williams has revamped his Chilli Bidding System and has added a bridge blog specific to this bidding system as of April 2008.
Blog of Ron Klinger - Mr. Ron Klinger of Sydney, Australia, introduces his Bridge Blog for members only. The visitor must log in. Mr. Ron Klinger was editor of Australian Bridge for thirteen years since 1972, making it one of world's leading bridge magazines. He was also the Bridge Columnist for the Australian Women's Weekly and later, The Daily Telegraph and The Weekend Australian. He is currently the bridge columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald and has a regular column in Australian Bridge magazine and Bridge Plus magazine in England.
Blog 4 NT - The Southern California Bridge News Online. ACBL District 23. Updated at least once a day with new posts, which the visitor then can check monthly, weekly, or even daily to see new stories, bidding polls, and unit reports.
New England Bridge Blog - The introduction of this website extends the borders of New England Bridge’s 40 plus year history of teaching bridge to students from all walks of life, in large and small groups and individually, plus teaching and playing professionally at tournaments. For over 25 years, Mr. David Leopold, President of New England Bridge, has been one of only two A.C.B.L. Star teachers in the metropolitan Boston area. As of 2008 he is currently serving his 12th annual term as Bridge Director of the Harvard Club of Boston.
Bridge Blogging - bridgeblogging.com is a community of Master Point Press authors and other bridge writers commenting regularly on the bridge scene as well as their latest triumphs and disasters.
Mastering Bridge - Welcome to Mastering Bridge - your online bridge community of bridge teachers and bridge players.
The following Bloggers contribute to the Bridge Blogging site of Master Point Press and have their personal address. They are listed alphabetically by first name:
Barbara Seagram - Barbara Seagram owns and manages one of the largest bridge schools in Toronto, where she teaches hundreds of students every year to enjoy bridge. She has been awarded ‘master teacher’ status by the American Bridge Teachers Association. She is also a highly regarded bridge author
Becky - I have been an intern at Master Point Press since July, 2008. I spend a good deal of time on bridgeblogging.com, mostly helping our bloggers troubleshoot technical issues, or setting them up with new accounts. I’m not a bridge player (yet!).
Bob Mackinnon - Robert F. MacKinnon is a retired mathematician who admits to a life-long love of Japanese culture. He lives in Victoria, British Columbia, and when not writing spends his time sailing and playing bridge. His stories and articles have appeared in Bridge Plus and BRIDGE magazines, and in the ACBL Bulletin.
Bobby Wolff - Bobby Wolff (Las Vegas) is one of the all-time great American bridge players. He started winning world championships in the 1960s with the famous Dallas Aces. Since then he has accumulated 11 world titles, 10 silver and bronze medals in world play, and over 30 national titles.
Cameron French - Cam French is a teacher, mentor, former certified director/club proprietor and writer of the game. He has been published in The Bridge World, The Kibitzer and community newspapers. He has not accrued multiple victories in Regional or National events, but claims to be friends with a few who have. He is more of a student of the game than a tournament professional.
Colin Lee - Colin represented Canada in 1995 in Ghent Belgium in the World Junior Pairs and was the youth pair championship - finishing #19th overall and #1 for Pairs under 20 years old. He also represented Canada twice in the World Junior Team championships in 1997 and 1999 finishing 7th and 11th respectively. Colin Lee is the technical guru behind Master Point Press and BridgeBlogging.com and has a degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Waterloo - which definitely can help at the bridge table as well as in checking probabilities in bridge books and articles.
Dan Romm - Dan Romm, from Seattle, Washington, is a successful businessman whose hobby for more than forty years has been winning at high stakes bridge against the very best players.
James Howick - My names is James Howick. I’ve just started working here at Masterpoint Press. I’ve never played bridge before, but I’m looking forward to learning. I just moved to Toronto with my wife, and we have a stellar apartment on the 20th floor overlooking Lake Ontario. Looking forward to talking with all of you.
Judy Kay-Wolff - Judy Kay-Wolff, a Diamond Life Master, is no stranger to the tournament scene and has the distinction of being married to two Hall of Famers. She was wed to the late international star, Norman Kay, for nearly forty years and is presently married to eleven-time world Champion, former Dallas Ace, Bobby Wolff. A Philadelphian by birth, Judy who now resides in Las Vegas, has enjoyed many phases of our game spanning five decades - player, administrator, charity game organizer and amateur musical bridge show writer and director. However, she boasts as her greatest achievement the pursuit of The Lone Wolff to its conclusion. Judy happened upon it on a dusty shelf in Bobby’s apartment in 2003 where he had abandoned his half-finished epic begun in 1995 and she proudly takes full credit for allying Bobby and his manuscript with Ray Lee and Master Point Press.
Linda Lee - Linda Lee is co-owner of Master Point Press, the world’s leading publisher of books on bridge. After a lengthy absence from women’s bridge, Linda won back-to-back Canadian Women’s Teams titles in 2004 and 2005, and represented Canada in the Women’s World Championship in each of those years as well as in 2007. She is a WBF World International Master and has co-authored several bridge books including Beginning Bridge with Barbara Seagram and the Practice Your Bidding series with Barbara Seagram and Andy Stark.
Luise Lee - Luise Lee has been exposed to bridge in various forms all her life, but only started seriously studying the game in the fall of 2008. This blog is dedicated to recording her journey as she grows and developes her skills as a bridge player.
Mark Horton - Mark Horton, from London, England, is an internationally known player and journalist, with more than a dozen books to his credit, including Misplay These Hands with Me and Bridge Master vs. Bridge Amateur. He is editor of BRIDGE magazine in the United Kingdom.
Mike Yuen - A long time member of the IBPA International Bridge Press Association. This is my first attempt at writing a blog.
Nick Fahrer - Nick has spent all his life in Sydney and is the proprietor of The Bridge Shop, one of only a handful of stores in the world that specialise in contract bridge. A self-confessed bridge-junkie, he comes from a bridge playing family, married a bridge player and is the father to one caddy and a would-be caddy. His fondest bridge moment occurred when his wife Linda was selected for the Australian team.
Professor Silver - David Silver’s bridge writings have appeared in the New York Times, BRIDGE Magazine, Australian Bridge and the American Contract Bridge League Bulletin, and he was a regular contributor to Canadian Master Point magazine. He teaches English at a community college in Toronto, Canada. His other books include Tales out of School, and A Study in Silver.
Ray Lee - Ray Lee has been playing and writing about bridge for more years than he cares to remember. He conducted a regular column in the Toronto Star in the 1970s, has been editor (and sometimes founder) of several bridge magazines) and contributes to bridge publications around the world on a sporadic basis. As founder and publisher of Master Point Press, he is the proud purveyor of almost 150 different books on bridge, some of which are even worth reading. Playing with with his wife Linda, he can claim to have achieved second place in a number of prestigious bridge events, including the National Mixed Pairs. They are still the only pair to have scored over 75% in a Continent-Wide game and not have won it overall.
Roy Hughes - Roy Hughes is the author of several bridge books including Canada’s Bridge Warriors, which won the IBPA Book of the Year award for 2007. His first book, Building a Bidding System, was runner-up for the IBPA Book of the Year in 2005, and his second book, Card By Card, was nominated for the 2006 award. Roy lives in Toronto, Canada.
Sally Sparrow - Sally Sparrow joined Master Point Press in July 2008 as their Editorial and Marketing Assistant. She is new to the world of bridge, despite the fact that her mother (Maggie Sparrow) is a Star Bridge Teacher.
The following Bloggers report from the First World Mind Sports Game:
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