Category: 2005 Dodge Tour de Georgia
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Operation Gadget Photo Archives Moving to Flickr
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’ve always loved Flickr, and I’ve finally found a way to move the Operation Gadget photo archives into Flickr so that more people can see them. Since we are coming up on the tenth anniversary of Operation Gadget, we’re beginning with the photos from this site’s early days: The 2004 Tour…
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Start Reading “Lance Armstrong’s War”
Reading Time: 3 minutesMy wife Kathleen was laughing at me this morning when I told her that I was about to finish the new book Lance Armstrong’s War by Daniel Coyle, a contributing editor for Outside Magazine. Kathleen said, “Wow, you finished a long book! This is going to open new horizons for you,” as…
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Treo 650 Saves the Day During the Tour de Georgia
Reading Time: 4 minutesI’ve written a couple of stories about gadgets that I wish I had when I was covering the 2005 Dodge Tour de Georgia. One gadget that I’m proud to say I had with me for the all six stages was my palmOne Treo 650. The Treo 650 has quickly become the key…
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Canon EOS 20D: A Digital SLR Would Have Helped Me Get Tour de Georgia Finish-line Shots
Reading Time: 2 minutesI wanted to ask for a photographer’s vest for the Dodge Tour de Georgia, but I didn’t feel that I had the right camera to make it worthwhile. If I had one of those vests, I could have stood inside the barriers just beyond the finish line and gotten shots of riders…
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12-Inch Powerbook G4 Would Have Made Writing Tour de Georgia Stories Easier
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe working environment for credentialed members of the media when I was at the Dodge Tour de Georgia was different every day. We worked in two different offices, a hotel conference room, the theater in the observation tower at Brasstown Bald, and a conference room at women’s club, depending on where the…
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Gadgets I Wish I Had at the Dodge Tour de Georgia
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI think that an appropriate way to wind up Operation Gadget‘s coverage of the 2005 Dodge Tour de Georgia is to point out a few pieces of technology that would have made our coverage better or would have made covering the Tour de Georgia easier. This idea came from my friend…
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Don’t Miss the Tour de Georgia on OLN’s Cyclysm Sunday on May 1
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’ve been remiss in not pointing out that the Outdoor Life Network will be showing two hours of Dodge Tour de Georgia highlights on the Cyclysm Sunday program. The Tour de Georgia episode will air today, Sunday, May 1, 2005 at 5:00pm Eastern Daylight Time. A few moments of Lance Armstrong’s…
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They Called Me “The Blogger” at the Dodge Tour de Georgia
Reading Time: 3 minutesJosh Hallett wrote an article called Bloggers as Media: Operation Gadget gets Credentialed for the Tour de Georgia which included an email that I sent him where I gave the rationale for covering the race, the approach I used to get a credential, and why covering the Dodge Tour de Georgia seems…
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How Hard Did the Riders Work in the Tour de Georgia?
Reading Time: 3 minutesIf you’ve talked to me by phone or email since I returned from the Dodge Tour de Georgia, you know that I was exhausted when I got home and it took me two or three days to start to feel reasonably normal again. This gives me even more respect for the effort…