Archive for March, 2008
Friday, March 28th, 2008
More admiring the problem
As suspected, there was nothing particularly earth-shattering presented by last night’s panel on new media and ethics in journalism and business. What highlights there were — mostly coming from the Georgia State University professor of journalism (with a special focus on law and communications), Greg Lisby — seemed to be two steps forward only […]
6 Comments » - Posted in Geekery, Local News, Media, Netroots, YouTube and such by shelbinator
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Rabble rousin’
As mentioned elsewhere, tonight a bunch of us blogger-terrorists are going to descend upon the Atlanta Press Club again to hear about “Ethics and New Media: How the Blogosphere is Affecting Journalism and Business.”
Please join Georgia State University’s Center for Ethics and Corporate Responsibility and the Atlanta Press Club as we discuss how bloggers are […]
3 Comments » - Posted in Local News, Media, Netroots by shelbinator
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Obama and NASA
Thanks to Twitter, I saw an op-ed in the Houston Chronicle taking Obama to task for proposing to pay for his education program with offsets in NASA’s budget, which could jeopardize our ability to get to the space station without relying heavily on Mother Russia. So for this week’s MTV gig I was inspired […]
No Comments » - Posted in Geekery, Politics, Sci-Tech, YouTube and such by shelbinator
Friday, March 21st, 2008
XM killer?
For those of you who might be wondering, no, the honeymoon is not over between the N95 and me. Far from it. It’s more like we just discovered the Kama Sutra.
Yesterday, after a good week of talking crack with some turbine engineers, I wasn’t entirely sure how to get myself back out of […]
11 Comments » - Posted in Cool things, Geekery, Mobile, Sci-Tech by shelbinator
Saturday, March 15th, 2008
Vine City storm damage 2
Update: threw this particular video over to MTV for this week’s story.
As I watched the continuing “disaster porn,” as one local blogger put it, on the TV, Twitter filled another gap and alerted me to the distinct lack of coverage of the neighborhood where the destruction began. “No [mainstream media] in Vine City yet. It’s […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Local News, Mobile, Video by shelbinator
Saturday, March 15th, 2008
Vine City storm damage 1
Shot, edited & uploaded from a Nokia N95.
Formats available: MPEG4 Video (.mp4), Flash Video (.flv)
1 Comment » - Posted in Local News, Mobile, Video by shelbinator
Friday, March 14th, 2008
Georgia Blog Carnival #31
Is this thing on?
Welcome to another edition of the Georgia Blog Carnival! My name’s Shelby, and when I’m not contemplating ritual suicide in an engineering lab at Georgia Tech where a PhD continues to elude me, I’m one of your local citizen journalist types who currently contributes to MTV’s Choose or Lose election coverage […]
10 Comments » - Posted in Geekery, Local News by shelbinator
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
N95: The year I make contact
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New toy.
I am now a Nokia starchild.
Well, it’d help if Qik would give me a damn account, anyway. But lucky for the starchild, he can now, as an independent contractor, write this off as a business expense. Hip hip hooray for citizen journalism!
Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), Flash Video (.flv)
4 Comments » - Posted in Cool things, Geekery, Sci-Tech, Video by shelbinator
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
McCain: the Uniter
Sen. John McCain swung through Atlanta for a minimum $1,000 a head fundraiser on Thursday. The variety of protesters outside, though, from anti-illegal immigration conservatives to anti-war liberals, told the real story about the image problem McCain will face going forward.
In bringing people of diverse views together, however, if only to protest his presence, […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Local News, Politics, Weirdos, YouTube and such by shelbinator
Friday, March 7th, 2008
More party crashers
This may sound like more sour grapes, but hey, it’s my blog — and I consider new media my party so I’ll cry if I want to.
At SoCon’s, Press Club Panels and Journo3G’s we new media rabble-rousers urge the journalism giants to evolve and adapt and make use of the wealth of information available in […]
