And then NBC said “watch out, here comes the boss!”

We wrote a while back about the Winter Oly… Olympic Winter Games and what it could teach us about corporate abnormality. While the sport may be done, the learning continues.

1. Hurtling down a bob-sleigh run at 90 mph has gotta hurt
2. Canada really cares about hockey and curling
3. NBC US really does choose to focus predominantly on US athletes

We know about number 3 because we made use of the NBC online video site

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which in turn uses Microsoft Silverlight video player to provide fabulous high-def streaming video – on our iMac the pictures are gorgeous.

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