{"id":2676,"date":"2008-08-08T13:29:50","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T20:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.web-strategist.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/08\/olympic-photos\/"},"modified":"2008-08-09T13:53:14","modified_gmt":"2008-08-09T20:53:14","slug":"olympic-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/08\/olympic-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n2008 Olympics Opening Ceremony<\/a> – Get more Docstoc Buzz<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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This slideshow (photo credits here<\/a>), I found embedded on Sean Percival’s site<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

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

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

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<\/a>). I’m off to Monterey right now, some friends (non-Chinese) are also getting married. Best wishes global family.<\/p>\n

BTW, upon closer inspection, docstock appears similar to slideshare, but it’s not limited to just presos.<\/p>\n

Update: You can watch highlights on NBC of the opening ceremony, really breathtaking<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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