Broncos News in 160 characters or less

Several weeks ago, I was approached by the guys over at 80108 Media about writing content for their text message service. 80108 Media actually has a bunch of writers that all report on local or national topics. Anyone with a phone that supports text messaging can sign up for free and pick the topics they want to get delivered right to their phones (or mobile devices).

For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been writing my opinions leading up the Denver games as well as my thoughts after each contest. As these are designed to be sent via a phone, we are limited to two or three boxes of 160 characters each. To give you an example of how really small that is, this post is over 1450 characters long.

So, I find it somewhat challenging to get my opinions and interesting news into 160 characters of text. But, heck, it’s a cool idea they have over at 80108 Media. I like that they don’t just want to give you scoring updates, but actual fan insight and thoughts. It makes their service unique I my opinion. I’ll even forgive the Head of Content for being a Patriots fan! :)

If you’re interested in seeing what type of things I have been fitting into 160 characters of text, check out there online version of the text messages called thumbcasts (normally received by your phone if you sign up).

It’s definitely not comparible to the awesome coverage here on BroncoTalk but, come on, what is?

-Jonathan Douglas
–BroncoTalk.net