Truemors
is reporting from
Member
NP Rank:
NP Rank:
IOC Approves Athlete Blogging Policy for Vancouver 2010 Games
Share:
by mtippett | May 14, 2009 at 12:15 pm
79 views | 11 Recommendations | 1 comment
Photos
If there is an organization in the world that represents the opposite of Web 2.0 it's the Olympics. This is a highly restrictive but by IOC standards it's pretty lose. Athletes will be able to blog about the single most exciting moment of their lives but with some serious restrictions.
The Sports Journalists' Association reports that the International Olympic Committee has issued a four-page guide that permits the athlete blogs at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games. The rules include a broad range of restrictions, including no sound, video, photographs of Olympic action or medal ceremonies, no interviews or news about other athletes, and no use of the Olympic marks.
It'll be interesting to see how much material leaks out given the fact that most athletes are going to have twitter feeds, facebook accounts and other non 'blogging' formats.
What is NowPublic?
NowPublic lets people work together to cover news events around the world.
Crowd Power
carol barabanov
Canada
Most RecentMost Recommended Comments (1)
at 19:34 on May 14th, 2009
What are the main reasons for those guide lines though?
Marketing? Trade marks? Privacy? Protecting the Athletes own reputation since we all know in such emotional highly demanding performances one can say a lot that one would regret latter.
Or keep them all simply focused on their performance rather then on blogging about it?