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How AP photographer captured Gabby Douglas Olympics photo

Poynter :: Associated Press photojournalist Greg Bull was waiting for that moment, the point in Gabby Douglas’ balance beam routine at which she leaps the highest, spreading her arms and legs and looking straight up at the ceiling.

A report by Steve Myers, www.poynter.org

BBC - Digital Olympics: Week one in numbers

BBC Internet Blog :: It's the end of the first week of London 2012, a week that's seen record numbers of people accessing the BBC's Games coverage online and across mobile, tablet, connected TV and Red-Button. As data flows in, my team and I have been looking at exactly how the Olympics is being consumed by audiences across devices.

Key insights - A report by Cait O'Riordan, www.bbc.co.uk

HT: and summary Paul Sawers, "BBC's Olympics: Weekends More Popular for Mobile", thenextweb.com

London Olympics: Controversy in Twitter feeds

Los Angeles Times :: Several hours before a semifinal race this week, Michael Phelps alerted his fans that he planned to take a nap. At roughly the same time, across town, basketball star LeBron James was visiting a sneaker shop. And, apparently, Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt needed a shave. "Just posted a photo," he said. It seems that every moment of the 2012 London Olympics so far has been documented — 140 characters at a time — on Twitter. The popular microblogging service has become more than just a forum for athletes and fans to share their thoughts. It is a part of the story at these Games.

The social games - A report by David Wharton, www.latimes.com

London 2012: Is this the first open data Olympics?

Guardian :: Is this the first open data Olympics? - It should be - we have access to better data analysis and visualisation tools than ever before, many of them free. There is also a culture of open data around the world that just wasn't there in 2008. Governments have thrown open the doors to their data vaults and numbers are everywhere.

Open data Olympics? - A report by www.guardian.co.uk

Sina Weibo: A digital megaphone to more than 300 million Chinese

Associated Press | Tech Wire Asia :: China’s Twitter was raucous Thursday with horn-tooting over Beijing’s gold rush at the London Olympics, a digital reflection of the nation’s exuberant mood — embellished with flashing emoticons. Earlier passions have been ignited on the site by a deadly high speed rail crash and outrage over factory pollution.

A report by AP, www.techwireasia.com

25pc drop could confirm Hastings' 3Q fears: Olympics streaming saps Netflix traffic

Variety :: It turns out Netflix may not have been paranoid after all about the threat posed by the Olympics to its streaming business. Streaming activity for the Los Gatos, Calif.-based company dropped 25% in the U.S. on Sunday from "normal levels," according to research from Procera Networks, a technology provider for broadband networks.

A report by Andrew Wallenstein, www.variety.com

Free Olympic video feeds from 40 European broadcasters draw millions

Guardian :: A European Broadcasting Union website giving access to free and legal TV coverage of the Olympics by 40 broadcasters across Europe is attracting millions of users a day. The Eurovision Sports website allows viewers to tune in to coverage by all major broadcasters across Europe and to the raw, commentary-free feeds of 12 main sports a day.

A report by Lissa O'Carroll, www.guardian.co.uk

London 2012: How swimming photographers make their underwater moment

New York Times :: As Al Bello struggles to wedge his lean body into his scuba gear, it appears that taking the photographs has to be the easy part.

A report by Andrew Das, www.nytimes.com

Google’s 300 million user Olympic experiment

Dan Barker's Blog :: Google have launched lots and lots of Olympic content within their main search results. They have also created a neat user interface to join all of this together and, in doing so, have essentially created a giant Olympics ‘website’ with tens of thousands of pages, all integrated directly among search results themselves. Other search engines have included medal tables, and basic information around The Games. This goes a little further, removing much of the reason for searchers to visit the official London 2012 site and broadcaster sites. It also points to the future of Google’s “Knowledge Graph” project, and how this may affect other website owners.

Continue to read here Dan Barker, www.barker.dj

"Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings" - Google Blogspot

HT: David Moth, in "Are commercial aims behind Google's Olympic SERPS?", econsultancy.com

Haymarket Network tackles 4,000 page Olympic task

Brand Republic :: With the London 2012 Olympic Games in full swing official programmes and magazines supplier Haymarket Network is set to produce 27 daily guides as part of a bigger project spanning more than 4,000 pages of content.

A report by [requires registration] Daniel Farey-Jones, www.brandrepublic.com