http://2010.dailyvancouver.com/taxonomy/term/235/0 en http://2010.dailyvancouver.com/scales-reports-bbc-from-beijing <p><b>Cross-posted from: </b><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/olympics/7541563.stm#robert" title="Robert Scales Olympic Diary on BBC">BBC Sport | Olympics | Beijing Diaries</a></p> <p><b>Cross-posted at:</b> <a href="http://www.raincitystudios.com/blogs-and-pods/daveo/london-calling-scales-talks-about-his-olympic-fervor-bbc">Raincity Studios</a> <p><b>Background:</b> Raincity Studios CEO/Founder Robert Scales and Pres/Ambassador Kris Krug are on the ground in Beijing to document and study the 2008 edition of the Olympic Games. They are publishing dispatches to a variety of news outlets including the venerable BBC. Here's Scales' first installment of his Olympic diary.</p> <h2>ROBERT SCALES, MONTREAL, CANADA</h2><p> <img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44903000/jpg/_44903411_diaries_robertscales2_203.jpg" alt="Robert Scales" border="0" vspace="6" width="230" height="152" hspace="6" /> <br />Robert runs a <a href="http://raincitystudios.com" title="Raincity studios - web development and design">web development company</a> based in Canada Beijing 2008 beijing 2008 citizen journalism fencing kk kris krug Robert Scales scales social media Team Canada Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:59:52 -0700 http://2010.dailyvancouver.com/beijing-2008-social-media-kk-scales NOTE: As part of on-going social media coverage of the Beijing 2008 games, this article was cross-posted at:</p><ul><li><a href="http://www.raincitystudios.com/blogs-and-pods/daveo/beijing-2008-social-media-backpack">Raincity Studios</a></li><li><a href="http://www.nowpublic.com/world/citizens-ground" title="Beijing 2008 at Now Public">Now Public </a></li><li><a href="http://urbanvancouver.com/node/6454">Urban Vancouver</a></li><li>etc. </li></ul> <h2>Citizens On the Ground <br /></h2><a href="http://flickr.com/photos/kk/2735782867/in/set-72157606536311600" title="Scales on the go by KK"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3260/2735782867_d0209eff62_m.jpg" alt="Scales on the go by KK" class="fright" height="240" width="160" /></a> <p><a href="http://raincitystudios.com">Raincity Studios</a> Sino-Away-Squad of Scales and KK, are on the ground in Beijing to cover and participate in the Olympic experience as citizen journalism, technology experts, social pundits and cultural ambassadors. </p> <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3073/2735197723_2bd2bb6107_m.jpg" alt="KK on the go" class="fright" height="240" width="180" /> <p>The Glimmer Twins' tasks are diverse and their methods varied so here's a preview: </p><ul><li>participating in the <a href="http://www.uwo.ca/olympic/" title="Univ Western Ontario Olympic Symposium">9th International Symposium on Olympic Studies</a>, in Beijing, August 5-7 with <a href="http://andymiah.wordpress.com/about/" title="Andy Miah Olympic Scholar">Olympic scholar Dr. Andy Miah's</a></li><li>documenting the scene for crowd-sourced new site: <a href="http://members.nowpublic.com/user/6247/assignments" title="Scales on Now public">Now Public</a>, Vancouver radio station: Crave 95, and BBC Interactive - among other media outlets </li> <li>shooting Creative Commons licensed photos delivered via Flickr</li><li>extolling about the new, improved <a href="http://bryght.com" title="Bryght Web Community Hosting">Bryght web community hosting </a>product - available in free, cheap or fancy varieties</li><li>meeting up with prospective clients to extol Raincity Studios' status as an approved weblog vendor for Vancouver/Whistler 2010</li><li>cheering for Team Canada at the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP2w6F61Zss" title="Tickets in Beijing">Archery, Fencing, Women's Softball, BMX</a> and more summer games sports</li><li>spreading international goodwill in the fun-loving/hard-working style they honed whilst at the Torino 2008 Winter Games.</li></ul> Andy Miah Beijing beijing 08 Beijing 2008 China kk kris krug Olympics Olympics and Web 2.0 Symposium scales social media symposium Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:44:30 -0700