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I want the raw and the cooked including ads and I am willing to pay for it
Submitted by Roland Tanglao@... on Wed, 2006-02-22 11:04. 2006 turin | blogaholics | chandra crawford | cross-country skiing | crosscountry skiing | Torino 2006 | Vancouver 2010If you watch TV coverage of the Olympics, you see coaches, fans and friends taking videos and photographs of the Olympics. Yet next to none of that is on the web, aargh.
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Like Arieanna and Boris, I want the raw and the cooked and I am willing to pay for it.
I want the established media's Q&A, high gloss stuff.
I want the raw video, text, photos, audio from the fans, coaches and friends of the athletes.
In other words, I want the everything there is available for the Olympic events I am really interested in.
For example, I am a cross country skier. So for Chandra Crawford's win in cross country pursuitsprint (Chandra's CBC web forum):
Blogaholics: I want more than the media can provide
Submitted by Boris Mann on Sun, 2006-02-19 16:20. blogaholics | blogging | Torino 2006Wow! Arieanna just wrote an incredible piece outlining how she feels blogging is missing from the Olympics. I'm going to point this out to several people as an example of how we might get a better glimpse into viewers as well as competitors.
Right now we have plenty of coverage of the Olympics. I'm seeing it a lot - I watch the coverage from the Canadian perspective and the US one - watching highlights on both channels to catch different elements of each event. I read the b5 media coverage. I catch snippets here and there over the Internet. But it's very one-sided. It's about the perception of the events - not the participation. From the viewers/commentators, not the athletes, their families, the coaches or the judges.
My understanding of the IOC rules indicates that athletes cannot blog their Olympic experiences. This is just wrong. It's not about granting exclusive media coverage to a multinational network - it's about capturing the event. And for that we need perspective. Right now the coverage is like a picture with giant holes cut in it.
When blogging is banned from certain perspectives, it not only makes me angry and annoyed, but it makes me feel empty. In this instance, I want more than the media can provide. Interviews are not the same thing as blogging. Blogging is a very personal activity - where one person by choice shares their perspective and emotions and pictures and lives. It's not edited and it's not driven in question/answer format.
Read the whole thing: Blogaholics - The Olympics needs perspective
