Videojournalist Brian Conley arrested in Beijing: Beijing 2008 Olympic Games
Independent Video Journalist Arrested
Brian Conley is an independent video journalist who usually works for Alive in Baghdad, who was working as part of a team with New York artist James Powderly. From the Committee to Protect Bloggers:
Brian Conley, was arrested at 3:00 a.m. Tuesday in Beijing. Brian, the founder of the Alive in Baghdad video news project, as well as an employee of the Hub, was documenting the activities of New York artist James Powderly, who uses lasers. In this case, it looks as he was planning a Tibet-themed event at the Olympics.
Four other arrestees are also bloggers: Jeffrey Rae, Michael Liss, Jeff Goldin and Tom Grant.
This needs to be written about. Boing Boing has more.
Beijing 2008 Olympics: Freedom of Speech Promised then Denied
At the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, a promise was made that demonstrations would be allowed to go ahead without hindrance.
This has not happened, as shown by this report from Channel 4 News.
BBC Olympic Coverage Online - OK at 512kbps. Hurrah !
The BBC have a good online service for Olympic coverage via the web, offering 6 channels of coverage - the same as the interactive options via satellite.
It also seesms to work reasonably well via connections with speeds as low as 512kbps, which is what I have been using.
This is one of the few times of the decade when you can watch Table Tennis in preference to Football - a small island of civilisation for a couple of weeks. And now you can do it online.
One to take advantage of, expecially if you are setup with 2 monitors and have no digital TV feed to your office.
The BBC Live Olympic coverage page here, and is only available in the UK.
