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// Lessons From the Olympic Losers

02-Mar-10

The 21st Winter Olympic Games are officially over. Everyone will probably remember the winners: the U.S.A. winning a record 37 medals, and Canada winning it’s first and 14th gold medal on home soil. What people won’t remember, however, are the losers, the failures, the falls.
I watched more Olympics this year than I usually do. And [...]

// Olympics, YouTube and Slam Poetry

15-Feb-10

Friday night the world watched Vancouver. An estimated 3 billion people tuned in to see the 21st Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony. Here in the U.S., 32.6 million people saw the spectacle, the second highest Nielson rating for a winter games ever.
Gauging the early response (plus my own impressions), they were not disappointed. While not [...]