Updates: 16 Sep: there’s a book out – Nicholas Lezard on writing the Olympics | 25 Sep: did socmed broaden our view of #london2012? (Andy Miah) Less is more – it’s been quite a discipline to push out even one shortish post made up of links per day. Now more than ever convinced it’s good to [...]
With NBC and The Wall Street Journal leading the way, Storify Olympic coverage drew millions of views from around the world
From 7-14 June the Olympic torch passed through Scotland. A “60 strong team of citizen journalists used this as a starting point to explore a deeper sense of identity in Scotland” – the Citizen Relay project. As an exiled Scot I was moved by the pictures and gobbled up the Storifies from Gerry McG and Cameron King, but two [...]
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 [...]
After yesterday’s foray into #london2012 in Denmark I’m now exploring #oldk, the local hashtag. First up, trying out two promising new aggregation tools, which automatically pull together tweets, photos, check-ins… Epilogger lets you set up your event straight away. It’s clearly constrained by Twitter’s 1500 search limit, but all the same we’ve already got 1526 [...]
Yorkshire and the North West are joint 11th on the fantasy medal table this morning, and back in the real world Denmark is doing pretty well too at 16th (above Sweden)*. Time for a quick look at Danish equivalents of some of the media I follow. Politiken is the national Guardian-a-like, although the whole paper [...]
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
Update, 14 August: a post-Olympics chat was held by #commschat on 13 August, highlighting some interesting findings by Opinium Research about the perception of brands (and government promises) before, during and after #london2012, plus Sociagility’s Olympics Tracker dashboard, measuring the social media activity around sponsoring brands. My Community Manager, a US community management resource in the social [...]
The Guardian’s live blogs are what I use to keep up with what’s going on. Social? Way too much. Eurovision Sports Live, the EBU’s streaming service, is the cherry on the cake, bringing BBC1 and BBC2 onto my computer. Here’s today’s liveblogs, packed with information, humour and links: what’s on today all the action athletics rowing [...]