History, Infographics
The Olympics & Twitter
This fabulous infographic shows the trends on Twitter for the first 10 days of the games.
Linkage, Sport
One year to go…
Yup, one year to go until the Olympic are held in London. Leeds, however, is significantly far enough away to get away with just acknowledging the fact that it is happening somewhere with a gentle nod and occasionally watching highlights on TV. A few things stand out about this event, and I’ve written about it a few […]
History, Photographs, Sport
1948 London Olympics
A lovely story. Scouring through a car boot sale 20 years ago, Lucy Bull spent £2 on a box of negatives and old snaps. Lucy, who was studying A level photography at the time, didn’t look at all the pictures and eventually stored them in her attic. She was having a clear-out recently when she found […]
Linkage, Sport, Videos
2012 Olympics Update
Now then, in less than three years time, London will begin its hosting of the 2012 Olympic Games. It might be a little bit rubbish compared to the well prepared and astonishingly brilliant Chinese games of last year, but let’s face it; it’s the only chance in my lifetime that such an important worldwide event […]
Linkage
Olympics 2012 – 50 days to go, kind of…
Did you know that there are just 50 days to go until the 2012 Olympics!? Well not exactly obviously. There are 2420 days until 2012, let alone whenever the games would start. The 50 days refers to when we find out who’ll host the Games. I personally think that London will do it. I’ve shown […]