Month: October 2011

  • Foursquare gets pissed

    The above “Mark Your Territory‘ video is about one of the many student projects I saw Wednesday at the GVU Center’s Fall Research Showcase. It was a great way to see  some really fascinating projects grad students at Georgia Tech are working on. I’ll write more about that later, but it included data visualization, a…

  • First rough draft of history is raw video

    Maybe so obvious, is it not worth noting, but I will: The capture Col. Muammar Gaddafi was caught on video and that the video was shot with an iPhone by a participant; not a journalist. In photos and videos of his death and body, nearly everyone seems to have a camera phone. The first rough…

  • Did Occupy Wall Street find its Rick Santelli?

    Is MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan Occupy Wall Street’s Rick Santelli? The above video with TV business/financial journalist Dylan Ratigan going on a “mad as hell” rant has been among YouTube’s trending videos over the last few days. In this video, Ratigan’s message is associated with the Occupy Wall Street protests, but the rant was actually made…