http://2010.dailyvancouver.com/taxonomy/term/184/0 en http://2010.dailyvancouver.com/blog/roland-tanglao-urbanvancouver-com/i-want-the-raw-and-the-cooked-including-ads-and-i-am-willing-to-pay-for-it <p>If 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. </p> <h3>START OF RANT: </h3> <p>Like <a href="http://www.blogaholics.ca/archives/2006/02/the_olympics_ne.html">Arieanna</a> and <a href="blog/boris-mann/blogaholics-i-want-more-than-the-media-can-provide">Boris</a>, I want the raw and the cooked and I am willing to pay for it. </p> <p>I want the established media's Q&amp;A, high gloss stuff. </p> <p>I want the raw video, text, photos, audio from the fans, coaches and friends of the athletes. </p> <p>In other words, I want the everything there is available for the Olympic events I am really interested in. </p> <p>For example, I am a cross country skier. So for <a href="http://www.torino2006.org/ENG/OlympicGames/news/news_eng161818.html">Chandra Crawford's win in cross country <strike>pursuit</strike>sprint</a> (<a href="http://messageboards.cbc.ca/index.php?showforum=45">Chandra's CBC web forum</a>):</p> 2006 turin blogaholics chandra crawford cross-country skiing crosscountry skiing Torino 2006 Vancouver 2010 Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:04:32 -0800