{"id":2760,"date":"2010-04-05T10:43:37","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T10:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/05\/eight-weeks-till-eurovision-2010\/"},"modified":"2023-04-18T22:42:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T22:42:00","slug":"eight-weeks-till-eurovision-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/04\/eight-weeks-till-eurovision-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight weeks till Eurovision 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In eight weeks time, this year\u2019s Eurovision Song Contest will be over, and I\u2019ll be back from Oslo in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/conference-and-events-diary\/my-eurovision-2009-coverage\/\">Just as last year<\/a>, I\u2019ll be covering the event online from inside the stadium not just on the night of the Grand Final (May 29th) but also the two semi finals (May 25th and 27th), but also in the run up to the \u2018Eurovision Week\u2019 of staging, rehearsals, backstage fun and everything else that goes into one of the world\u2019s most popular TV show in the world.<\/p>\n<p>The easiest way to follow me is going to be on Twitter (follow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/ewan\/\">@Ewan<\/a>), where I\u2019ve been providing the ever popular live textual commentary to the Song Contests for the last four years worth of contests. Here\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/05\/21\/which-eurovision-commentary-tweets-was-my-dr-death-and-the-tooth-fairy-moment\/\">last year\u2019s Top Ten tweets<\/a>, as voted for by readers of the site<\/p>\n<p>Other than that, keep popping back here,as I\u2019ll be linking out to articles, features and interviews that I\u2019m doing for a number of sites and publications \u2013 more on those as we get closer to the date \u2013 plus I\u2019ll be offering as much opportunity to get your questions answered, the return of the Beginners Guide to Eurovision, and there\u2019s a couple of new bits of Web 2.0 stuff that could work well in Oslo!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Moscow&#39;s Eurovision Warmup\" style=\"border-top-width: 0px; display: block; border-left-width: 0px; float: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border-right-width: 0px\" height=\"257\" alt=\"Moscow&#39;s Eurovision Warmup\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/image130.png\" width=\"445\" border=\"0\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Remember, Eurovision is more than just the show on the Saturday night, there\u2019s more than enough fun to keep a smile on your face for all of May!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In eight weeks time, this year\u2019s Eurovision Song Contest will be over, and I\u2019ll be back from Oslo in Edinburgh. 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The easiest way to follow me is going to be on Twitter (follow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1574,22,392,1700,13],"tags":[371,1072],"class_list":["post-2760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2010-conferences","category-conferences","category-eurovision-multimedia","category-eurovision-2010","category-links-to-my-articles","tag-eurovision-song-contest","tag-introduction","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-Iw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65590,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2760\/revisions\/65590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}