Dave Hill's been tweeting that he's found a couple of the people he's been interviewing around Clarence Rd who've made mention of lack of the fabled Olympics job opportunities as one of the underliers explaining our rioting. Although pop-up looting might perhaps be an expression more appropriate to the ears of those aspirational about the Olympiad?

Meanwhile life goes on regardless amongst the creative accounting classes, the IOC's in town for their seminars and stuff, and test events are continuing albeit with some scheduling adjustments.

Two blogs on insidethegames from David Owen:

@insidethegames David Owen: Beach volleyball provides strange case of normality amid the madness #olympics #london2012 #volleyball #ioc

@dodo938 #london2012 , the riots, the tumbling markets & hurting sponsors. My latest insidethegames.biz/blogs/13826 #olympics #brasil

Update (Thurs, 11/08/2011 - 08:29) going a bit viral since yesterday on Twitter:

The new London 2012 Olympic logo: http://imgur.com/YER86 http://t.co/tkHepva

Update (Mon, 15/08/2011 - 13:49) Dave Hill blogged yesterday (my emphasis):

I...became part of a very different crowd from the one that had participated in or observed the disorder of the night before.
This crowd comprised fellow journalists and a changing cast of local people, either being interviewed at length or chipping in as they passed by. Some engaged in their own conversations, one or two of them quite loudly from opposite sides of the street. Eavesdropping, I was struck by how few chose to attribute the thieiving (sic), confrontation and destruction to "criminality, pure and simple." They knew there was something more [to] it than that.
Most were keen to stress a backdrop of grievance and disappointment, notably about a lack opportunities for the young arising from the boom years before the credit crunch, local reg[e]neration projects and the Olympics.

Update (Fri, 19/08/2011 - 12:45) Dave's made good progress in the course of this week discovering, courtesy of @BDonline and @KieranLong, Dutch professor of Architecture and Politics @crimsonwouter:
London riots: forgotten Woolwich has an important tale to tell

It is strategy embraced to differing degrees in London by politicians across the mainstream spectrum. The questions Vantisphout raises about it are as relevant to Woolwich as they are to Hackney, where a sense of exclusion from the benefits of regeneration has been clearly articulated, including in relation to the Olympics. This is not to say that all such schemes are worthless or doomed to fail. But as Woolwich battles to recover, a clear-eyed review of London's approach to its own self-renewal would do no harm at all.