New experiments in 2010 media landscape
Will the 2010 Games mark a “turning point” for crowd-sourced event coverage? Two new websites are aiming high with less than five days until the opening ceremonies.
The first, Vancouver [de]Tour Guide 2010, is an interactive city map created by local artists, cartographers and geographers.
Coloured markers indicate areas of interest that might not make it onto Tourism Vancouver pamphlets. Click on Ballantyne Pier, for instance, to read about a bloody 1935 confrontation between longshoremen and police.
Other markers advertise protest events, arts exhibitions and independent bookstores.
“It’s an attempt to represent the city in a more kaleidoscopic and nuanced way than how it’s being currently promoted,” said Althea Thauberger, a local artist who helped the create the site.
She hopes the map becomes a must-stop destination for tourists and media looking for alternative Vancouver perspectives. It’s built on a Wikipedia-type model where a constantly growing team of editors invite regular people to join and post content.
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