In the "what are they thinking" category, Techdirt reports that Olympic athletes will be forbidden to blog at the Summer Olympics… except outside the venue, and… well, the list of restrictions is huge. Apparently the IOC, desparate to make sure that nothing compromises its sponsorship dollars, is cracking down.
Will anyone lose a medal? Who’d have thought… blogging may be the new performance enhancing drug.
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
