Olympic Photos

Categories: Asia, Global Web, Social MediaPosted on August 8th, 2008

2008 Olympics Opening Ceremony - Get more Docstoc Buzz

This slideshow (photo credits here), I found embedded on Sean Percival’s site really shows how China is giving it their all to impress the world. Despite the many criticisms, they’re putting their best foot forward. I was in Beijing a few years ago, and they were starting construction, had banners up, and were very anxious and excited to host the world.

While certainly not as dramatic, I’ve collected my best of my best photos of China, on this post to raise awareness about the earthquake disaster earlier this year.

What’s most interesting? watch the flickr photos come in tagged “olympics” you see both ceremony and boycott photos, many in near real time. Also watch David Churbuck of Lenovo who is blogging his experience from Beijing.

Today is 8/8/8 a good luck date in Chinese culture, a good kick off for the olympics (the ceremony started at 8:08pm), many casinos are marketing like crazy, and thousands of Chinese are off getting married today (over 16,000 in fact). I’m off to Monterey right now, some friends (non-Chinese) are also getting married. Best wishes global family.

BTW, upon closer inspection, docstock appears similar to slideshare, but it’s not limited to just presos.

Update: You can watch highlights on NBC of the opening ceremony, really breathtaking.

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I think the article you linked said that “the citywide figure is 16,400″, which means that just the city had more than 16000 weddings!? here’s another link from Xinhua that gives some figures of wedding registrations in other Chinese cities: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-08/08/content_9044842.htm

Have fun at the wedding you’re attending

Posted by thebaglady on August 8th, 2008 at 1:51 pm

Thanks for the nod Jeremiah. Looking forward to blogging and capturing the spectacle. the main attraction — not to be trite — is the athletes. And they are blogging away at http://www.lenovo.com/voicesofthegames.

also good action in Twitter — follow Lenovo2008 and check out the #080808 hashtag.

Posted by David Churbuck on August 8th, 2008 at 4:06 pm

These certainly are amazing photos… I’d like to see such world class photography properly attributed though.

You can see the source for this slideshow, complete with attribution, here: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/08/2008_olympics_opening_ceremony.html

Posted by Ryan Joy on August 9th, 2008 at 1:14 pm

Thanks Ryan,

I added it to the post, I appreciate that, it’s very appropriate to always give attribution, thanks.

Posted by jeremiah_owyang on August 9th, 2008 at 1:53 pm

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