The opening ceremony for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing gets underway at midday GMT today, an event that will be broadcast live on television across the world.
During the next two weeks, you’ll be hard pressed to avoid seeing and hearing about the Olympic Games whenever you turn on the TV or radio or pick up a newspaper at the newsstand.
For sports fans (and anyone else like me who simply enjoys watching a series of such spectacular events that celebrate what people can achieve), this will be an amazing two weeks.
So the mainstream media - and especially television - is the place to go, so to speak, to catch the full audio-visual majesty of these games.
I can see my PVR working overtime during these Olympics.
I’m also interested in the niche views - what individuals are experiencing that won’t make the mainstream coverage; what those individuals think about what they’re experiencing and how they interpret events.
Social media is the...
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Like most, I’ve admired Cheng Fei for years.
But never been a big fan. Until now.
Why is she still competing at age-20 when dozens of younger girls are waiting for her spot on National Team?
Her passion for the sport is a really compelling story.
Here’s the best coverage yet, on the hottest new gymnastics blog:
As we all know, Cheng Fei had a rocky Olympics. She was on cloud nine after the team competition, only to swallow a bitter pill during the individual event fin... more
A wide range of sports and games are played in India. Undoubtedly, Indian sports have made a remarkable contribution at the international level, most importantly cricket, which has left such an impact on the minds of people that they worship it with full devotion, as if it is the fifth religion.
Despite the facts and records, the present condition of sports in India, except for cricket, is nevertheless pathetic. Cricket undoubtedly gets the best management and sponsors of the country, prob... more
Olympic gold medallist Geraint Thomas will be a celebrity guest At the ceremonial start of the forthcoming Wales Rally GB, the final round of this year’s FIA World Rally Championship. Being born in the Rally GB host city of Cardiff, Thomas won’t have far to travel and is certain to be a big draw for the crowds clamouring to see heroes of both four and two wheels. Thomas not only won the Team Pursuit gold medal for Team GB at the summer’s Beijing Olympics, he also smashed the world recor... more
Content summary: FIR Dine-Around at the IABC Vancouver conference; WIPO update; USC/Annenberg GAP IV study; collaborative communication tools: Skypecasting and Waxxi, Second Life and MySpace.com; Lee Hopkins reports; Maine blogger ad agency lawsuit dropped; David Philips reports; listeners’ comments discussion; upcoming FIR interviews; the music, and more.
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Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report , an 92-minute podcast record... more
Steve Rubel is right :
Like RSS and tagging, over the next several years OPML is going to become a core underlying technology for marketers in the conversation economy. […] I see it becoming a big social network for feeds. As it adds features and becomes more accessible to non-geeks, the community will grow, the network effect will kick in and so its value will increase.
Today, though, OPML is definitely a tech tool that requires some perseverance in understanding how to us... more
It looks like Delivering The New PR in London this Friday 12 May will be a hot event as almost 150 people so far have signed up to be there.
Last week, PR Business (a new PR print magazine in the UK) ran a feature about the conference, certainly helping build the buzz.
This is the third in the series of one-day conferences organized by Philip Young at the University of Sunderland that addresses the broad spectrum of social media in the context of change in pub... more
Heading off to catch a flight to London where I’m participating in the Delivering The New PR conference tomorrow.
This is a hot event with more than 150 communicators participating, from around the UK and from continental Europe. I’m looking forward to being with Philip Young , Tom Murphy , Stuart Bruce and Elizabeth Albrycht . A great team!
I’ve just sent Shel a recorded contribution for today’s edition of the FIR podcast as I won’t b... more
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