Haven’t done a plain links post for ages. I’m trying to get away from lists, but perhaps a few annotated links can be a good way of tracking current interests. Or a nice Sunday displacement activity. Events…many are still completely unamplified or curated, but for this seminar on the power of social media to support [...]
With NBC and The Wall Street Journal leading the way, Storify Olympic coverage drew millions of views from around the world
Today’s Guardian live blog has gone a bit bonkers about medals, looking at counts for the USSR, the British Empire, the European Union, US states, etc. What larks! Here’s some medals linkage: Team GB medal winners on a map – to put Yorkshire related arguments to rest FE/HE medals table Medals per capita Olympic medal [...]
#london2012 is not just about the sport – almost all UK universities are involved in some way and research into the whole phenomenon is a viable career path. Here’s some linkage… What will the Olympics do for higher education? – Andy Miah looks at the potential legacy; see the comment from the University of [...]
With world class athletes and delegates moving about London – many are getting around on public transport – here are some of the athletes Guardian readers have spotted on buses and the Tube. Tweet @gdnLondon2012
A bit more downbeat so far today. My pre #london2012 reading definitely tended towards the sceptical, helpfully summarised by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in London 2012: an investigative roundup. What it doesn’t include however is the Ravelympics scandal - see the Gawker report for full details of how the US Olympic Committee tried to ban [...]
Team GB has bagged two golds today, so things are looking up. To celebrate here are three examples of sentiment analysis using data from Twitter. Lovely stuff. Emoto - tracks Twitter for themes related to the Games, analysing the messages for ‘emotional expressions’ and visualising the topics and tone of the conversation – find out more | [...]
Updates: read Is this the first open data Olympics (answer: no) and see the fantastic collection of visualisations in Visualizing.org’s Olympics challenge. Here’s a nice one a bit out of the ordinary – Olympics swimming lap charts. And a final word from the Gdn’s Datablog – What did we learn?, with details of 12 visualisations. Much [...]
Curating the Olympics. The podcast: local issues. Dataviz. The London 2012 website, content strategy and readability. Feeling positive: examples of sentiment analysis. What a scandal. Keeping up: Guardian liveblogs, EBU streaming and BBC linkage. Synchronised tweeting: G+ hangout and Twitter chat. Random roundup of engaging things. På dansk (og på ferie): #london2012 in Denmark. Aggregating [...]
Update, 22 March 2013: the new Hvidovre website is here – I’m pretty underwhelmed. Looks optimised for mobile. Clearly a lot better than it was, but so dull. Plus no mention of social media at all, or reason to come back. See the list of subsites for a prime example of the utilitarian approach. Velkommen til et nyt [...]