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Newly Inspired to Cover the Olympics by Dave Olson

by Tris Hussey on February 4, 2010 · 0 comments

in Blogging

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 I would need to finish in early March (ssshhh, yes I know it’s a month away) so I had an even better reason to stay in my home-office hidey hole for the duration of the [...]

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

by Tris Hussey on November 21, 2008 · 1 comment

in Blogging, Citizen Journalism, Social Media, Web 2.0

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 to be allowed to attend media events.
The philosophy behind this desire to be included stems from their experience covering the last several games and providing alternative points of view on the games and the cultures of [...]

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