Archive for April, 2008
Monday, April 28th, 2008
Critical Mass on Choose or Lose
Since everyone’s whining about gas prices on the MSM, I figured showing fit and attractive young cyclists out enjoying the fresh air would be a better way to report on the “crisis” than just a bunch of predictable stock footage at the gas station. You want biofuels? We gotcher biofuels: PBR in a […]
3 Comments » - Posted in Get physical, Local News, Media, Politics, Video, YouTube and such by shelbinator
Thursday, April 24th, 2008
I’m making a movie. In my PANTS.
At this point I think it’s safe to say, if not for the N95 I’d have no reason to live.
Now Nokia’s giving us geeks another thing to distract us from our day jobs, and Spike Lee is part of the problem. Partnering with Jumpcut — the online audio-visual mashup tool that Mitt Romney used […]
No Comments » - Posted in Culture, Geekery, Media by shelbinator
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
All aboard the CJ train
Last week, two new players announced their intention to enter the mainstream-ized political citizen journalism arena a la Choose or Lose. First up, Rock the Vote:
Rock the Vote in partnership with WireTap magazine is searching for aspiring or established reporters for Rock the Trail. Sponsored by AT&T, Rock the Trail will capture today’s politics […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Media, Netroots, Politics by shelbinator
Monday, April 21st, 2008
MTV delegate caucus package
I went for short and sweet this week. After a while, one delegate candidate speech starts to look like any other, and like I observed this weekend, the speeches were relatively unremarkable in their uniform goodness.
Plus, I forgot my damn guest releases, and didn’t want to go chasing down any interviewees after the fact. […]
No Comments » - Posted in Local News, Politics, YouTube and such by shelbinator
Saturday, April 19th, 2008
Wiped Slate
Well, it’s finally over. The “545 Slate” — a team of five for the fifth district — kinda fell apart. Three of Emily Schunior’s slate-mates won: William Jelani Cobb, Dierdre Barrett, and Camara Jones. Emily and her other slate-mate, Gregg Bossen, did not. The other two delegates for Obama are councilman C.T. […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Local News, Politics by shelbinator
Saturday, April 19th, 2008
Death by caucus
Well I’m still down at the Teamsters Local 728 with a few score other die-hard caucusers and a handful of the more optimistic delegate candidates. The Clinton caucus wrapped up a couple of hours ago, and our friend Angela Trigg will be heading to Colorado representing the fifth. Only five Obama delegate candidates dropped […]
No Comments » - Posted in Local News, Politics by shelbinator
Saturday, April 19th, 2008
Are you that bored today?
If you’ve got some kind of political addiction or think you need to be punished for having too much fun last night, I’ll be providing live video as opportunities arise (cat fight!) at the 5th district DNC delegate caucus starting around 11.
You can access archived recordings and chat with me live at my Qik page.
1 Comment » - Posted in Geekery, Politics, Video, Weirdos by shelbinator
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Late Night with Dave Crackerman
It’s 10:30pm. I’m still in the lab. I’m going blind from squinting through a microscope at a blinding light reflecting off a polished metal bar, and I’ve got a skull-splitting headache.
But at least I’ve finally started acquiring the data that will get my ass out of this hell-hole. And this […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Cracktastic, YouTube and such by shelbinator
Monday, April 14th, 2008
Hillary FAIL
Hillary Clinton was chomping at the bit as hard as John McCain to attack Barack Obama this weekend for being so “elitist” and saying things that don’t mesh with her idea of “American values,” after the so-called gaffe discussed here yesterday. She then went into the heart of middle (”Don’t call us small!“) America […]
No Comments » - Posted in Culture, Politics, Rant, Weirdos by shelbinator
Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Off the Bus, or on the subway?
Even in the early days of Huffington Post’s “Off the Bus” citizen journalism project, from before I joined up to contribute the occasional video, Mayhill Fowler was one of the standard bearers. Her writing was prolific and her access to campaign events pretty high as well. Since we were, after all, “citizen” journalists […]
