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My New Blog - 2008 Olympics
Posted by CallCenterVet • 8/08/07 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: beijing, china, Games, news, olympic blog, olympics, sports, sports blog
I just got this idea on blogging about the upcoming 2008 Beijing Olympics 2 days ago while at work. I wanted to try out wordpress but I seem to be more comfortable using blogspot... I figured a lot of people will be looking up about the olypmics in the next few months so it'll be a great opportunity to get ahead of everybody and start blogging now... Not a lot of competition for the same niche out there too...
I truly appreciate if some of you my friends would check it out and let me know what you think about the layout and the idea of blogging about the olympics... It's exactly year before competition kick-offs BTW... Plenty of time to blog. I'll try to return the favor. Thanks in advance... BTW I'm not done with the design yet... So I need feedback 
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sounds like a great idea for a blog! as long as you don't feature this man who wants to carry the olympic torch, you should be fine:
www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22173382-663,00.html
good luck with the project,
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I'm boycotting the Olympics as I have no desire to support Olympics given to a country with some of the worse human right violations on the planet.-
what, did we American get awarded the Olympics Again? i'd boycott the olympics, but i'mma a reservist. most likely, i'll be back in the sandbox looking for WMD and blowing up elementary schools with children in them. the terrorists thought they were smart hiding in a school. no civilized country would use a drone to bomb an elementary school in the dessert. the water station, electrical plant and hospital... maybe. but not the school.
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I'm all about engagement with China. And I appreciate the fear of disorder that guides the Chinese leadership. Still China is giving material support to a country where there is a genocide going on: Sudan. China might have the clout to actually do something about it, but it buys its oil and looks the other way. Or did they recently change their policy?
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I should add that none of this has anything to do with Iraq, unless you want to count the serious loss of credibiity the U.S. has suffered, as well as its overstretched resources, so that all we can do in Darfur is throw our hands in the air and cry "genocide"---but not draw any practical consequences from that term, which the U.S. government uses to describe Darfur.
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I'll take that into consideration...hehehe... Thanks.
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Yeah, as stated above, this is a really controversial event. I would recommend including posts about the protests and what they are based on. That way you will have an all encompassing look at the event.
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I do not like the 2008 olympics idea its a terrible one!
They are detroying much of the old and brilliant china to make way for huge boring and dull grey sky scrapers... nasty! -
While China is preparing for the Olympics, more female infants in China are likely be abandoned due to the One-Child policy. I have discussed this very issue in my "Stranger Than Fiction" series. Sigh.
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And I've heard about a disproportionately large number of young single men. I wonder how good that will be for the country's social and political stability.
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They plan to extend the policy until 2012. I hope they have a good reason for it.
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I did not expect my niche would be as controversial as your comments seem to make it like. It's all the more encouraging to write stories about now! Thanks yarinh, neoauteur, clockworkwar,mawkish, demonicume,cooper and cymrusteve! I'll add you as my friends if you don't mind!
Cheers! More comments please... I need it!
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demonicume: I have no clue what you are talking about or how it relates to my comment. You are free to support the Chinese all you want. I prefer to boycott an Olympics given to a country who has one of the worse human rights records in history.
Feel free to check out my Darfur blog. I just posted STANDS latest newsletter in regard to Beijing, and the carrying of the torch. -
Isn't the Olympics about Sports? Last time I checked it was...
I think I might have hit some nerves here...
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Well, maybe you will recall the 1980 summer games that the U.S. boycotted in Moscow because of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Or you can go back to the political debates surrounding U.S. particiaption in the summer games in Berlin in 1936. I'm sure there are other examples too. Taking politics completely out of it is wishful thinking.
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It is about sports but it is actually about giving what amounts to billions of
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It's also about giving a regime legitimacy --- both abroad and at home. But I think I'm probably preaching to the choir in your case.
As I said before, though, I can sympathize with Chinese leaders' desire for social stability. Consider the country's history in only the last 100 years. But that doesn't mean democratic countries should look the other way at every turn. Nor does it mean we should ever try to make a pariah out of that country.
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it's kinda complicated and controversial when you put politics into the whole deal... I'd like to stick to sports.
Politics not everyone's deal...
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Of course, that's your call. But be prepared for a lot more of this.
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i think it is a smart idea to get ahead of the curve. how much knowledge do you have about the sports and different characters that are competing. also i think a big issue will be the environment and the pollution in the city. i heard today that the chairman of the ioc was considering postponing or not having certain events out of fear that athletes may be injured by poor air quality ie cycling.-
Air quality will be a big issue. It is in general for China and many other parts of Asia.
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and callcentervet. if you like the topic and you want to write about it, write about what you want and dont worry about the politics. every country has screwed up politics but sports in one place where politics can be left out of it. or at least i hope. good luck
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Thank you J! My point exactly! If I wanted to write about the politics of any event, I would have done in. This is actually my the first project that I will practice the SEO stuff I learned about the past couple of months. My targets:
at least PR4
1000 page views a day
decent ad income
I would appreciate any help from any one who can take me there...
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CallcenterVet, I could add your blog to my blogroll, as a start. Well, not a start really because yesterday added your blog to my Technorati favorites
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Thanks jr! I think I added you yesterday on my technorati!
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let me know if i can help. will be interested to see if i can help. i know i can supply you with pictures that you can use legally once my site cutcaster is up. its a marketplace where you can license photos to use legally in your blogs. i'm sure with pics like the ones that you will need they will be free in most cases. keep me up
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I'll definitely check your site later and see for myself. Thanks again J!
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China is not only buying their oil, they have been selling that crooked govt, arms since the 90's. -
the2008 olympics may not go ahead apparently unless they sort out the air quality - its nasty (believe me) - the commision said yesterday.
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Finally, my newest baby got approved here in Blogcatalog. I've found that blogcatalog itself is a great source of traffic. Got some 260 referral clicks from blogcatalog this week from my first blog.
Please check out my new blog and tell me what you think about the layout or the idea for blogging about it... olympicblogger.blogspot.com/
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I like the idea - you might as well get started on 2012 while you're at it. Seriously the layout looks fine. Design wise I try and be honest.
I'd probably do away with the huge blogcatalog widget at the bottom. I'm sure you could use that space for more useful information - not that it's not useful but a lot of people aren't familiar with what it is. And it may be a design decision but the widget displays a bit different on my browser.
The first thing I looked for in your sidebar was a link to other relevant sites about the Olympics. Maybe even travel and tourist information for China.
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Thanks for being honest sanktjohanser. Finally a detailed and worthy review. I'll probably get rid of the widget once I get more good ideas on what to place there.
Will surely blog about cycling soon. In fact I will be posting about every sport & every country participating in the olympics. 1 year should be plenty of time.
Cheers.
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Boycott the Olympics? Can I boycott the USA, permanently? Human rights abuses? Cooper, give your head a shake. China is no worse than anyone else. I don't think they have invaded a country to steal oil lately. -
Sorry I don’t want to sound like a hater but I boycott those games
A country who violates human right should not host this kind of event besides that great idea. -
Dont forget the gas mask. -
Whichever country is innocent ( whose people has not committed any human rights violations against their own countrymen/people or any other country's people ), let them "cast the first stone" and boycott the Olympics in China.
If anybody came from a country that has never committed any human rights violations against anybody, we will respect your choice to boycott.-
Moral equivalency arguments are not a good thing. It goes back to that old saying we learn as children: two wrongs don't make a right.
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Two things don't make it right... that's true. It doesn't make sense to involve politics with sports either. Sports & human rights violation issues are 2 totally different things. That's why no matter how HOT this issue is, I will never justify it by blogging about human rights violations anywhere.
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See the NYT link below. You are not going to be able to avoid politics. You don't have to report on it, but be prepared for it here and in comments on your blog.
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I can only think of 1 country not having any issues with human rights violations... Switzerland. But then again I haven't been watching Swiss news constantly... I could be wrong but I just don't hear anything about human rights issues with the Swiss.
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Here's an interesting article from today's New York Times:
www.nytimes.com/2007/08/12/weekinreview/12yardley.html?ex=1344657600&en=afe... -
No countries are innocent but china is one of a kind. They tell you what you can see or not see over internet they tell you what to write. You can not search for human right on Google or you can be arrested. The only reason this country still running that way is because they are UNO founder and have their special seat out there. I know for example United States do strange thing at guantanamo but at least you still free to say bush is an idiot investigated anything you want without be arrested…
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The worse kind of human rights violations I've seen is through a picture where some people were smiling as they hanged a couple of guys on trees for suspicion of rape. Supressing freedom of the press is one thing, Lynching is far worse. The point is few countries have there hands clean on this issue, so unless anybody comes from those countries, boycotting the Olympics seem hypocritical.
See the picture ( second from the top )
pinguy.infogami.com/blog/vwm6
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There we go again with moral equivalency.
My own reasons for seeing no sense in boycotting the Olympics are more pragmatic. I think engagement with China makes more sense than disengagement. So let the show go on, but don't submit to Chinese censorship.
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"So let the show go on, but don't submit to Chinese censorship."... I totally agree. Censorship... I think nobody can curb or control that except for the Chinese... Much like most progressive countries US, Japan and Germany, I think they will grow as a more humane society by learning from they're their mistakes... Their just 1 century behind from the rest. I think no foreign human rights advocacy can change that.
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I wouldn't say they're a century behind. They're on a completely different track.
As far as engagement and human rights advocacy goes, how about the role that the Helsinki Accords played in undermining the Warsaw Pact? Wikipedia seems to have it right: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helsinki_accords -
"So let the show go on, but don't submit to Chinese censorship."
But we already do....You know Google agreed to take all references to the tiananmen square massacre out of the page results when submitted from within China (so much for a free internet)...And Yahoo handed over the details of Chinese dissidents to the state authorities who were using yahoo email accounts.
We kiss up to the Chinese because everyone wants to do business with them..the Olympic movement does itself no favours by wanting to get in on the act.
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Maybe boycotting the game is maybe a little hard but I can remember that at Montreal Olympic Games Africa countries boycott those games because South Africa was there. That was the time of apartheid situation. China is not the only one Russia makes it is own way but whatever let the show continue and be blind I guess….
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We can't afford to be blind against human rights violations, it's human nature to care. But the Olympics is not a political issue. According to Olympic.org:
ITS RELEVANCE FOR TODAY
Taking into account the global political reality in which sport and the Olympic Games exist, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided to revive the ancient concept of the Olympic Truce with the view to protecting, as far as possible, the interests of the athletes and sport in general, and to contribute to searching for peaceful and diplomatic solutions to the conflicts around the world.
www.olympic.org/uk/organisation/missions/truce/truce_uk.asp
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I had to fave you.
Good job on the blog and beating everyone to the punch.
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