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How have you followed the Olympics online?

The Winter Olympics are in full swing, and you can’t watch them on TV at all times. So when you’re at work or at school, how are you getting your Olympics fix? Sure, we know about the official Olympics site, as well as the official site from NBC. But while there’s a lot of good features and video at the NBC site, I also counted 11 corporate sponsor logos throughout the home page. I’m wondering if you’ve found an offbeat site to follow the games, perhaps a blogger who has VIP access, or a quirky podcast emanating from Torino. Let me know how you’re following the Games in the comments below, and I’ll feature the best ones in next week’s Your Take Roundup.

Mark Glaser :Mark Glaser is founder and executive director of MediaShift. He contributes regularly to Digital Content Next’s InContext site and newsletter. Glaser is a longtime freelance journalist whose career includes columns on hip-hop, reviews of videogames, travel stories, and humor columns that poked fun at the titans of technology. From 2001 to 2005, he wrote a weekly column for USC Annenberg School of Communication's Online Journalism Review. Glaser has written essays for Harvard's Nieman Reports and the website for the Yale Center for Globalization. Glaser has written columns on the Internet and technology for the Los Angeles Times, CNET and HotWired, and has written features for the New York Times, Conde Nast Traveler, Entertainment Weekly, the San Jose Mercury News, and many other publications. He was the lead writer for the Industry Standard's award-winning "Media Grok" daily email newsletter during the dot-com heyday, and was named a finalist for a 2004 Online Journalism Award in the Online Commentary category for his OJR column. Glaser won the Innovation Journalism Award in 2010 from the Stanford Center for Innovation and Communication. Glaser received a Bachelor of Journalism and Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of Missouri at Columbia, and currently lives in San Francisco with his wife Renee and his two sons, Julian and Everett. Glaser has been a guest on PBS' "Newshour," NPR's "Talk of the Nation," KALW's "Media Roundtable" and TechTV's "Silicon Spin." He has given keynote speeches at Independent Television Service's (ITVS) Diversity Retreat and the College Media Assocation's national convention. He has been part of the lecture/concert series at Yale Law School and Arkansas State University, and has moderated many industry panels. He spoke in May 2013 to the Maui Business Brainstormers about the "Digital Media Revolution." To inquire about speaking opportunities, please use the site's Contact Form.

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  • Jonathan Crowe in Quebec has an interesting site called "DFL" that highlights the last place finishers in each event:

    http://www.mcwetboy.net/dfl/

    Crowe calls this blog a personal stand "opposed to the idea that anything short of a gold medal is a failure on the athlete's part. . . . [G]iven the stringent qualification rules imposed by the IOC, the various sport governing bodies, and national Olympic committees, I don't think that anyone who manages to get to the Olympics has anything to apologize or atone for."

    Short version: they're there, and you're not, couch potatoes - so drop the win-or-apologize attitude toward the athletes, even those (or especially those) who finish last.

    [As Crowe describes it, the name of the blog is sports shorthand, to describe the absolutely, positively final position in an event: D is for Dead, L is for Last, and F is . . . obvious.]

  • The Directory @ ClipBlast (www.clipblast.com) has been highlighting and archiving video coverage of the Olympics. Our goal as a web site (and blog) is to give people access to the video they want when they want it.

    We've aggregated links to Olympic coverage from various news and media providers. It's quite interesting to see the various perspectives given a specific story or event - especially the Olympics.

    Olympics clips can be found here: http://www.clipblast.com/searchresults.php?phrase=olympic

  • I just viewed your report on the Olympic Coverage and I believe that the problem is the way the material is presented. Prime time coverage was supposed to begin at 8PM; however, the important events were not being shown till 10:30 PM with the exhibition skating presenting the top atheletes at 11:15 PM. In order to keep the viewership NBC tried to hold out the best for last, perhaps if they reversed it, I believe this would work in their favor. I saw it with my own children and friends children who could not keep their eyes open past 10:30 PM anxiously awaiting the best. We all missed out on many ceremonies as well. Apollo's medals, most of his skating events were shown very late and I saw a great interview with him unfortunatel it was at ll:30 PM. An interview my children would greatly have benefitted from watching. The atheletes work so hard and it is very sad that our news media stole their golden moments.

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