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A Few Thoughts on Olympic Protests

February 13, 2010 By 16 Comments

We knew they were coming, as inevitable as the torch run itself, protests during the Olympic Games here in Vancouver. The blessing, and sometimes curse, of a free society is the right for people to gather, march, and protest to voice their objections and concerns about the state of things. It is our right. It [...]

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Newly Inspired to Cover the Olympics by Dave Olson

February 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment

I’ve been lukewarm on the whole Olympics thing for a while. I’m not a huge fan of large crowds or sports, so the idea of the whole world descending on my fair city wasn’t very appealing. Then in the fall, while I was finishing Create Your Own Blog, I took on writing Using WordPress, which [...]

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Are you ready to keep working during the Olympics in Vancouver?

December 6, 2009 By Leave a Comment

From February 12-28 all of Vancouver is ceding our city over to the rest of the world for the Winter Olympics. Beyond all the discussions about money spent and the myriad issues surrounding the Games, they are coming and they are going to happen. The bottom line is that we just have to deal. Not [...]

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Raincity throws down the gauntlet to VANOC: Let citizen media in!

November 21, 2008 By 2 Comments

If there is one city that, IMHO, has lead the charge of citizen journalism-media-coverage it’s Vancouver. Between Raincity Studios and NowPublic we have either supported or provided coverage of the Olympics that cannot be beat. Yesterday Dave Olson and Raincity threw down the gauntlet at VANOC to allow them and other independent and unaccredited journalists [...]

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