No time for words; must go get more coffee and put any words I can spare into the thesis. For now, you get my final Georgia video for that thing we called Street Team ‘08.
[...]A few weeks ago I mentioned this shindig over at the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation with CBS political correspondent Jeff Greenfield. Since Jeff had said that the current state and trajectory of media tested his faith in American polity, I threw together this little look back [...]
The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation — you know, the guy who owns our Atlanta Falcons — is having one of its Speaker Series events this evening at 5:30.
Jeff Greenfield, CBS News Senior Political Correspondent
Known for his quick wit and savvy insight into politics, history, media and current [...]
Where else to be for a speech this big but Manuel’s Tavern? After a quick stop a Verve Lounge to verify there was indeed not enough light (or quiet) to shoot satisfactory video, I headed to Manuel’s in time to wedge myself into a corner between a couple tables and [...]
Apparently CNN’s internet reporter found my cellphone coverage of the hearty crowd reactions from the overflowing Manuel’s Tavern interesting enough to put on her big shiny screen. Bhaskar Roy, co-founder of Qik — whose software I used to stream video from Manuel’s (because frankly I wasn’t all that caught up [...]
In January 2008, at the beginning of the primary election season, Sen. Barack Obama addressed the congregation at Ebenezer Baptist Church on the Martin Luther King holiday weekend. King was a pastor of Ebenezer 45 years ago today, when he delivered his "I have a dream" speech during the march [...]
A gay British Obama volunteer hopes to survive a Texas gun range while an Atlanta Clinton delegate looks forward to lots of happy hours despite relying on a cramped chemical toilet.
Sounds like a road trip to me.
Here’s the video from the Unity Express send-off Sunday, as six Democrats packed [...]
I’ve gotta tell ya, filming a Courteous Mass wasn’t all that interesting because nobody got into any trouble, but I might still find time to make an extended remix for elsewhere.
[...]This ride was actually proposed in early June, well before our recent Critical Mass tangle with the law. The recent write-up in the AJC of the police crackdown — I hesitate to add “perhaps assisted, in part, by my 123,000 view-getting video of the affair,” lest I deeply [...]
This is the final piece in the video series about local Iraq veteran and ex-Marine Chris Raissi. In this chapter we revisit Chris’s trouble with recruiting duty and hear about the hostile chain of command there, an environment that only exacerbates Chris’s post-war stress that he, like many other veterans [...]
About 39 minutes ago a version of my first veteran video aired on MTV2, as thirteen other Street Team videos will throughout the day. I was too busy watching America’s Next Top Model on the main MTV channel (the only one I get), but I’m sure it kicked ass.
Just in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I’ve still got a ton of footage from ISEF that I hope to boil down into a more in-depth review when time allows this week. But in the meantime, here’s what I could knock out overnight for the token MTV piece — embedded for your viewing pleasure, though it deprives [...]
The ISEF08 winners have been announced, and the recipients of the grand prize scholarships are these fine young ladies (left to right, below): Natalie Omattage of Cleveland, MS; Yi-Han Su [...]
So um, someday your laptop computer won’t roast the tops of your thighs, and it has something to do with nano light waveguide things. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go light my master’s degree on fire and hide under my desk while I try to process all [...]
The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair is underway in our fair city of Atlanta. Today and tomorrow the kids are being judged — judged I tell you! Scrutinized, interrogated, and judged, and lucky for them (and not for us), this part of the fair is not open to [...]
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: [...]
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 [...]
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:Â 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 [...]
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 [...]
I hate American Idol, and if you watch it, I probably hate you, too. Okay, not really; I have very dear friends in whom I quietly tolerate such behavior, because they quietly tolerate so many obnoxious things about me.
But there is at least one time a year where I [...]
Last week, all I had to offer was camels on campus. This week, I got to talk to the former Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders while she was on campus amidst a veritable storm of prophylactics. Apparently the GT Young [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Shot, edited & uploaded from a Nokia N95.
Formats available: MPEG4 Video (.mp4), Flash Video (.flv) [...]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 [...]
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 [...]
John “Straight Talk” McCain will be clogging up Buckhead traffic during rush hour today, dropping in for a minimum $1,000 fundraiser at the Westin.
Meanwhile, the state Democratic party is using the occasion of his visit to call, as many others already have, for McCain to denounce, reject, or maybe even [...]
This biweekly edition is now up over at Georgia on my Mind.
The next edition will be hosted by yours truly. That oughta be fun.
[...]One of the problems of a weekly publishing cycle is that a lot of political stories go cold before you go live. But dangit, I interviewed the Pro-Life Unity woman, I wasn’t going to drop that footage in the archives. So this week’s MTV piece:
For the [...]
It really was information overload for a day and a half at the Computation + Journalism Symposium at Georgia Tech. I think everybody left with something to chew on and quite a bit of excitement for the uncertain and promising future of the field. Here’s Gary Kebbel of the [...]
There’s a giant green and yellow swath of ick rolling over Georgia on the animated radar right now, so there’s really no point in trying to wait it out before donning cheap rain gear and riding through the slop on a bike not built for weather. Giddyup.
Then after a [...]
For those of you joining us from CNN, that means “citizen journalism,” something you’ll want to reflect on with much consternation as you prepare to launch your new dedicated iReport website. Great, just what Street Team ‘08 needs: a Street Army of even more amateur amateurs sucking up all [...]
Yeah, yeah, it’s super duper pooper scooper Tuesday, and we’re all very excited.
Well, if you’re not, go watch me occasionally at Choose or Lose dot com or even the big important MTV News main page, and maybe that’ll light the fire in your little voter-pants.
C’mon, I’m wearin’ [...]
Video highlights of the Georgia Democratic Party’s Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, featuring Hillary Clinton, has made it through the editorial assembly line.
There’s a Science Nerd Update, Kwanza Hall’s son Marc, and a very dejected Ed Hula — and even a brief appearance by the Ron Paul reloveution [...]
Hot off the MTV wire:
MTV’s Street Team ‘08 Has Super Tuesday Covered With Blogs, Video, Photos
Real-time reports will stream live online from citizen journalists representing 23 states holding primaries or caucuses that day.
On Tuesday — the Super-est Tuesday of the year — voters in 23 states will head to [...]
I’ve had my words butchered in newspapers before — in fact, almost every time I get newsprint attention, it goes awry. Last year’s AJC story on Young Dems that reduced me to a Guinness-drinking hitchhiker brought back fond memories of the Miami Herald sports writer that thought I was [...]
It was a busy political scene on this three-day MLK holiday weekend, and that certainly eliminated hope of any rest for the weary (read: me). John Edwards showed up to stump in the house of labor as the city was blanketed (thinly) with some panic-inducing snow, and I went down [...]
I’m back from my wintry travels, trying to re-acclimate to my graduate studies, and trying to figure out once again this whole work-life balance going forward.
And I’m still hacking up small bits of lung that withered and died in the single-digit Iowa air.
I’ve even gotten all my new cables, [...]
What to say about Iowa?
First and foremost, thank you. Not to Iowans in their bizarre political shenanigans and inability not only to be polled but even to bother to get their lazy asses registered as voters prior to caucus night. No, thanks go to those of you who tuned in, [...]
