Social Media's Role In The 2008 Olympics

During the next two weeks, you’ll be hard pressed to avoid seeing and hearing about the Olympic Games whenever you turn on the TV or radio or pick up a newspaper at the newsstand.

For sports fans (and anyone else like me who simply enjoys watching a series of such spectacular events that celebrate what people can achieve), this will be an amazing two weeks.

So the mainstream media - and especially television - is the place to go, so to speak, to catch the full audio-visual majesty of these games.

I can see my RSS alert for blogs set up plus some specific keyword watches in special Olympics coverage at Global Voices which I’m sure will have some really interesting content.

I’ve done little more than that at the moment as the sheer volume of content out there is already almost overwhelming.

And of course, there’s no shortage of instant commentary and opinion

One neat idea focused on today is hashtag #080808 to all your tweets about Beijing Olympics on the 08/08/08. Currently if you Comments