Archive for June, 2008
Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Atlanta Police too busy to fight real crime
UPDATE: Go join in the fracas over at iReport.com, where this video has gotten over 48,000 61,000 107,000 121,900 views since posting on CNN.com’s front page Saturday afternoon. Clearly there is not enough real news being iReported.
If you were robbed, mugged, or otherwise assaulted or injured in the downtown Atlanta area between 6:45 […]
33 Comments » - Posted in Culture, Get physical, Local News, Mobile, Politics, Rant, Video by shelbinator
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
The Recruiter
Other MTV Street Teamers had already done plenty of stories about the Iraq War. I hadn’t; no particular reason why.
I’m really glad I did. This is part 1 of what will probably be 3.
Christopher Raissi isn’t your typical anti-war protester. In fact, he isn’t particularly anti-war at all; he’s just against this […]
2 Comments » - Posted in (In)security, Local News, Politics, YouTube and such by shelbinator
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
Sports Tracker tells me I’m still getting fat
I came up to North Carolina to visit the ‘rents for Father’s Day and, theoretically, get a good chunk of dissertation writing done. I wasn’t quite ready for my writing sabbatical, but on the day I was about to start my last experiments ever, my POS machine blew a piston seal and dumped oil […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Cool things, Geekery, Homelife, Mobile, Photo, Sci-Tech, Sport, Travel by shelbinator
Thursday, June 12th, 2008
Flixwagon on iPhone, Qik on WinMo
Live mobile video is breaking out all over. Last week, Qik announced a new version of its video software for a couple of Windows Mobile devices, the Samsung Blackjack and the Motorola Q. This can really expand the pool of potential live streamers — and of course make us Nokia types feel a little […]
6 Comments » - Posted in Cool things, Geekery, Netroots, Sci-Tech by shelbinator
Thursday, June 12th, 2008
Science is hard
Doug at Live Apartment Fire has an awesome critique of some recent science-bashing by WSB:
Tom Regan found that Georgia Tech had gotten a federal grant to develop a robotic drum machine. The video showed a rather marvelous gizmo that actually pounded a drum. Its distinction was its ability to improvise based on rhythms created by […]
3 Comments » - Posted in Local News, Media, Sci-Tech by shelbinator
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Steve don’t need no steenking video
For a split second I saw the $199 price of the new 3G iPhone and thought I might soon be abandoning my Nokia N95, after a mere three months. Then I clicked through the pages and realized that the drastic price cut must come from the fact that Apple still doesn’t think its mobile […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Geekery, Media, Mobile, Rant, Sci-Tech by shelbinator
Monday, June 9th, 2008
Yes she can! Rip him off!
Not much news to report back to MTV this week, so I just wrote up some remarks John Lewis made this weekend to a crowd of supporters at Melanie’s amazing multimedia home. It wasn’t until last night that I actually bothered to check out the websites of his two Democratic primary challengers.
It’s […]
No Comments » - Posted in Geekery, Local News, Politics, Rant by shelbinator
Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Are you the dumbest generation?
If you’re under 30 and plugged into the social web, chances are you’re an idiot, according to a book by Emory Professor Mark Bauerlein. I’m inclined to entertain his thesis, although that’s mostly because I’m not under 30 and I’m kind of a crotchety old goat when it comes to nay-saying the youths. If […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Culture, Local News, Media, Scary, Sci-Tech by shelbinator
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Critical Mass reprise
Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter Stacy Shelton previewed the Critical Mass bike ride last week.
Starting about 6:30 p.m., more than 300 bicyclists plan to take over several lanes of traffic, shoving King Car aside.
They call it Critical Mass. It’s a rolling message board that says “Bicycles have a right to the road too!”
During last month’s ride, a […]
17 Comments » - Posted in Local News, Media, Netroots by shelbinator
Sunday, June 1st, 2008
Sex and the Strangers
You know a movie has gotten annoying amounts of undeserved publicity when Howard Kurtz is talking about it on Reliable Sources. So if you, too, would rather the four New York divas just retire to the woods to die (or anything that will get them off your Twitter stream), then you ought to enjoy […]
