Archive for December, 2007
Friday, December 28th, 2007
Finally, some star power
With six days to go before the Iowa Caucuses, Joe Biden finally has a hot date for the last several Caucus Countdown events.
Not that his wife Jill isn’t totally smokin’, nor is this to discount the dedication of his entire family as they fan out over Iowa to hit several dozen meetings as […]
No Comments » - Posted in Culture, Media, Politics by shelbinator
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
And by “experience” I mean “money”
Washington Post’s online politics explorer Jose Antonio Vargas went to a political button shop in Des Moines, IA the other day to take the pulse of retail politics — literally retail politics — and he shot some video interviews. The store owner talks about paraphernalia sales trends as indicators of candidate popularity, and a […]
No Comments » - Posted in Politics, Rant by shelbinator
Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
Merry Christmas, Internet!
Click to Play
Gingerbread houses are fun to make. But not as much fun as rum cider. Ho ho ho.
Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), Flash Video (.flv)
1 Comment » - Posted in Uncategorized by shelbinator
Thursday, December 20th, 2007
A shot at news with Shelby Tequila
From the PR Newsire this morning:
MTV Taps 51 State-Based Citizen Journalists for “Choose or Lose ‘08″
AP Online Video Network & Top Mobile Carriers to Distribute Weekly “Street Team ‘08″ Reports
Knight Foundation Grant Helps Power Mobile Media Election Coverage Experiment
NEW YORK, Dec. 20 /PRNewswire/ — MTV, as part of its Emmy-winning “Choose or Lose” […]
8 Comments » - Posted in Culture, Job Hunt, Local News, Media, Netroots, Scary by shelbinator
Monday, December 17th, 2007
Share and share alike
Making online videos is fun. Making online videos with good music in ‘em is more fun. Of course, if you use something already in the mainstream media and controlled by the good ol’ lawyers at RIAA, you could wind up with your video ganked, at best, and notice of legal action at worst. […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Cool things, Media, Sci-Tech by shelbinator
Friday, December 14th, 2007
Squash like grape!
Tessa just made me aware of an outstanding bike-themed website for any angry two-wheeled commuter like myself — at least for entertainment and venting purposes. I’m not sure there is anything actually useful that will come of it, but Atlanta has joined a host of other cities on MyBikeLane.com, a site that seems to […]
3 Comments » - Posted in Cool things, Culture, Get physical, Local News, Travel by shelbinator
Thursday, December 13th, 2007
Jingle bells, cold as hell, caucus here I come
Yep, I’ve lost my mind. I’m going to Iowa.
I couldn’t resist the ultimate citizen journalism project of the winter, and considering how much time and effort I’ve put into this campaign, I’m not about to miss the champagne corks a-flyin’ when Iowa defies the polls yet again and Biden vaults into contention*. See […]
6 Comments » - Posted in Job Hunt, Media, Netroots, Politics, Travel by shelbinator
Monday, December 10th, 2007
Oprah sells things
Is Oprah just another celebrity?
I got into a pointless debate yesterday via Twitter — not pointless because the subject was unimportant, but because I don’t think either side had any intention from the get-go of really hearing and considering the counterargument. I have my opinion, you have yours, we agree to disagree.
I’m […]
6 Comments » - Posted in Culture, Media, Politics by shelbinator
Friday, December 7th, 2007
On the crack again
This is the kind of thing I’m spending a good portion of my time staring at this week.
No, I don’t know what you’re supposed to see in that. If I did, I’d be graduating like next week. You know how those CSI shows always have very exciting conclusive breaking evidence that shows under […]
5 Comments » - Posted in Cracktastic, Geekery, Photo by shelbinator
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
Reader challenge: summarize me
It’s been a while since I actually wrote anything here that remotely engaged you, dear lurker, so today I shall kill two birds with one stone, by asking you for input out of pure laziness.
I need a three-line bio by tomorrow. I am, of course, far too amazing to be contained in such a […]
