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NowPublic Olympics Channel

by julianw | July 28, 2008 at 01:51 pm

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Tired of having the Olympics explained to you by a foreign correspondent or served up by China’s state media?

NowPublic’s Beijing 2008 channel puts Olympics news in your hands. Come to the channel to contribute news, photos and video from the scene in Beijing, read commentary from a diverse array of sources, and add your voice to the debates on the political, social, and artistic dimensions of the Games.

We’re interested in collaborating with people who have been in Beijing during the Olympics. If you have any news to share, be it an anecdote about commuting to the Birds Nest or a photo of the party at the bar where you watched one of the sporting events, please feel welcome to post it on NowPublic.

Alternatively if you're a fan back home, let us know you rate the Olympics in retrospect, or tell us how you're celebrating or mourning your country's performance at the Games.

Tag your stories with "Beijing 2008," "bg08," and "Olympics" to send them to our Olympics channel.

Follow our Olympics coverage on Twitter, and share photos at our Olympics Flickr group.

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Amy Judd

at 17:30 on July 29th, 2008

What a great idea! I'm really looking forward to reading the coverage here!

julianw

at 17:34 on July 29th, 2008

Thanks! There must be so many other enthusiastic readers like you out there!

hanmi (not verified)

at 01:46 on July 31st, 2008

Nothing is so powerful as an idea whose time has come!!!!

Good going.

Milieunet

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at 03:45 on July 31st, 2008

julianw, I like this story. It's good stuff.

René

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at 06:31 on August 4th, 2008

Got it, have to add the tags. julianw, I like this story. It's good stuff.

René

at 10:59 on August 4th, 2008

Nobody sees Olympic sports stories here unless they check sport channel or catch a comment from it. My 3 Sailors story was on the Beijing 2008 'channel' page briefly, but now surpassed by all the periphery stories that are not actually about the Olympic sports.
This is way too bad. Cuz... well....
And you can hardly find it. even an email sent to me with updates to it, link took me to Front Page, not this one
http://www.nowpublic.com/tag/beijing+2008

Rachel Nixon

at 11:23 on August 4th, 2008

Hi - The channel will be getting a new format in the next few days which will allow us to showcase the stories better. In the meantime I've managed to reinstate the 3 sailors story.