Urban Vancouver

My 2010 Vancouver Olympics "made in Vancouver" Blogging Vision

By Roland Tanglao on April 2, 2005 - 8:16pm

Jane Athlete arrives from SomeOtherCountry and is escorted to the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Village. In her room is a cameraphone that takes excellent photos (at least 3 times optical zoom, 3 megapixel plus flash) and videos with a wireless keyboard that she can use to publish text, photos, audio and video in real time to her blog at the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Community website publicly, or privately to her friends, her family or to any group she wishes thanks to the high speed wireless network that is available in all of Whistler, Vancouver and the other Olympic venues.

If she chooses to, Jane can use her phone from SomeOtherCountry because the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Community website and the high speed wireless network use open standards and interfaces.

Or if Jane has her own blog, no problem, she doesn't have to use her blog at the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Community website; it will collect her public text, audio, video and photo posts. The advantage to using the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Community website is that it would be integrated with public who would also have free blogs on the site; the public just wouldn't get a free phone and wireless keyboard!

Click "read more" for the detailed vision!

The best part of this is that this could be a 100% "Made in Vancouver" blogging solution (apologies in advance to all the cool companies in Vancouver that I have omitted below; I don't know everybody YET!):

• Bryan Rieger can create the Flash software (or whatever technology is best for 2010; it looks like Flash could be it; if not Java or whatever) that runs on the phone and enables Jane to update her blog easily and in real-time
• obligatory PLUG: Bryght could supply the back end to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic website that will store the audio, video and text; we did it for ourmedia and terminus1525, we can do it again!
• Hop Studios, Raincity Studios, Dave Shea, 230.ca, etc. could design a beautiful and usable front end that is accessible and works on mobile phones and desktop browsers
• Good Basic, InsideBlogging, VBCreative, Arieanna Foley, Qumana Services, et al could provide 'site mom', blog consulting and online community building services

What do you think about my vision? I think this vision is not rocket science; other than the high speed wireless network we have everything today in 2005! Just a small matter of programming and design! All we need is the contract from the Olympic committee and permission for the athletes to blog (apparently athletes weren't allowed to blog at the Athens 2004 Olympics!).