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My Games: Beijing Diary on the BBC

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:27:19 -0700

Cross-posted from: BBC Sport | Olympics | Beijing Diaries

Background: Raincity Studios CEO/Founder Robert Scales and Pres/Ambassador Kris Krug are on the ground in Beijing to document and study the 2008 edition of the Olympic Games. They are publishing dispatches to a variety of news outlets including the venerable BBC. Here's Scales' first installment of his Olympic diary.

ROBERT SCALES, MONTREAL, CANADA

Robert runs a web development company based in Canada

Beijing 2008 Summer Olympiad Social Media Coverage

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:29:39 -0700

Citizens On the Ground

Raincity Studios Sino-Away-Squad of Scales and KK, are on the ground in Beijing to cover and participate in the Olympic experience as citizen journalism, technology experts, social pundits and cultural ambassadors.

The Glimmer Twins' tasks are diverse and their methods varied so here's a preview:

participating in the 9th International Symposium on Olympic Studies, in Beijing, August 5-7 with Olympic scholar Dr. Andy Miah's
documenting the scene for crowd-sourced new site: Now Public, Vancouver radio station: Crave 95, and BBC Interactive - among other media outlets

shooting Creative Commons licensed photos delivered via Flickr
extolling about the new, improved Bryght web community hosting product - available in free, cheap or fancy varieties
meeting up with prospective clients to extol Raincity Studios' status as an approved weblog vendor for Vancouver/Whistler 2010
cheering for Team Canada at the Archery, Fencing, Women's Softball, BMX and more summer games sports
spreading international goodwill in the fun-loving/hard-working style they honed whilst at the Torino 2008 Winter Games.

A reflection of 10 days at SXSW

Sun, 26 Mar 2006 01:36:43 -0800

My first SXSW, I spent 10 days in Austin, Texas armed with a video camera, a digital SLR and my mac! In my hand a platinum and photographer pass giving me access to almost all events and venues in town for the film, interactive and music festival.

Raincity Studios and Bryght hosted a party with our friends at Blue Flavor and Newsvines.

Bryght had a booth in the Convention Centre, where I spent the best part of my afternoon chatting with geeks and rockstars alike. Helping Colin and kk to promote Backstage and our services.

Ponzi stopped by one afternoon and did a podcasts with me and one with KK, you can listen to mine on the Chris Pirillo Show.

Blue Flavor, Bryght, News Vine and Raincity Studios are Having a Party at South by Southwest

Thu, 09 Feb 2006 00:12:16 -0800

Another fine segment of the Krug and Scales Show.

Checking in from Robson Square in Vancouver. Kris Krug and I are talking about Skateboarding, SXSW and the party we are hosting with Blue Flavor, News Vine, Bryght and Raincity Studios.

The Krug and Scales Show #3 - BCIT Magazine Interview + Going to Torino for the Olympics

Mon, 30 Jan 2006 19:15:41 -0800

Kris Krug and I were being interviewed by BCIT Magazine about our trip to Torino for the Olympics.

I was filming using my camera phone while he was filming on Roland's Nokia N70 and the crew from BCIT Magazine was filming us. That's meta media coverage for you..

Here's my clip, I'll post an update when Kris Upload his.