\nI’m not a rabid college basketball fan, but I do like March Madness, the college basketball tournament with 65 teams playing for the national championship in a single elimination format. It’s been a big deal for 30 or so years with office pools the norm.<\/p>\n
\nThe advent of cheap, ubiquitous network access has really sent this already popular event through the stratosphere. Consider this: There are 640,840 players in the Yahoo Pick’em<\/a> ranked ahead of me in the competition, with only pride on the line, no official money. Tremendous participation.<\/p>\n \nEven though the team I picked to repeat as champion, North Carolina, was knocked out and the Ohio State Buckeyes got blown out, I remain keenly interested in the outcome. Not a great weekend for results…Here’s my pathetic bracket<\/a> if you’d like to damage your retinas with poor picking.<\/p>\n \nEvents like these really highlight the power of the participation age. Good news for Sun, participation drives demand for network computing infrastructure. Long live March Madness and I can’t wait for the World Cup!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m not a rabid college basketball fan, but I do like March Madness, the college basketball tournament with 65 teams playing for the national championship in a single elimination format. It’s been a big deal for 30 or so years with office pools the norm. The advent of cheap, ubiquitous network access has really sent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}