February 10th,2006
Updates on Our Olympics Blog
Just a few short updates on our Olympics blog, Light the Torch:
1. We’ve decided to give all ad income from this blog to athletic organizations, to support the athletes. We’re hoping to generate 5000$ in donations for them over the course of the games.
2. We are opening the site up as a true community endeavor.
3. We have invited a variety of other networks to participate as well.
So if you want to write about the games, please feel free to register at the site and we’ll get you all setup. Don’t forget to put in your country (”Extended Profile” under “Users”) and a link to your site (as it will go in every post you write).
Also, if anyone wants to help with design, dev or getting advertisers to support our athletes, let me know!
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The Conversation
[…] For more details, see the Updates on Our Olympics Blog at b5media. […]
[…] Live blogging from the Winter Olympics. —— I think this is great. Having worked to bring the Olympic Games to the Internet from Atlanta through Salt Lake City, I understand the “work” involed in bringing projects like this to fruition. Organization, access negotiations (if required), logistics, etc. I do hope that b5media is prepared, from an infrastructure standpoint. The Olympics can bring enormous surges in traffic. Regardless, bravo! […]
Good idea! At the least it will be a fascinating experiment in collaboration; at the most, a brilliant demonstration of the good that such collaboration can accomplish. Keep us all posted on this one!
Jeremy, I’ve spread the word to our network of authors and also made a post about it on our main webpage http://www.knowmoremedia.com. This is a great idea! I’m looking forward to its development as the Olympics progress.
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[…] Light The Torch blog is a b5media initiative … I’m mostly covering the curling action, but as a Canadian .. I am trying to provide as much support to our Canadian Olympic Athletes and promote our Canadians over there in Torino 2006! So, I have been posting my 2 cents here and there […]
That is an excellent idea, and good luck in giving the money to the athletes. They sure need the funds.
[…] According to today’s schedule of events, it looks like it’s going to be a busy day! I would just like to remind everybody that not only is this a group blog .. but according to the b5media site … We are opening the site up as a true community endeavor. … We have invited a variety of other networks to participate as well. […]
That is a really nice thing to do with the proceeds.
It wasn’t clear in the post, is this a long term thing or are the donations only coming from what this blog earns during the Torino Olympics?
Either way it’s stil a really good thing to do and I just added your blog to our running list of sites covering the olympics.
George, we’ll be doing this for future Olympics, and maybe for World Cups and other major sporting events as well. We haven’t entirely decided on the fate of the site post-Torino.
Either way, thanks for the support!
Thanks for keeping us updates. I can’t wait until the Olympics, I have the site bookmarked now :P
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