Shelby Highsmith
About: I'm into rocket science; science, technology & security policy; and political communications. And shiny objects I can't afford.
Blog Posts
The Unity Express
--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 rel...
Hot Anderson on Anderson action
--On Anderson Cooper’s AC360 the other night, the panel discussing “veepstakes” turned their attention to Joe Biden for a bit. The...
The House of the Senate?
--Oh man I love a good play on words. I also love House, the Fox TV series about the terribly arrogant and often offensive doctor who manages to disp...
McCain finally found his dipstick?
--John McCain’s campaign sent out a little funny today, and it may actually be the most useful thing those pandering liars can do to help out w...
View from my uncle’s deck
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Courteous Mass follows police crackdown
--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 ti...
Gone dissertatin’
--If you hadn’t noticed by the crickets chirping around here, I’m on a bit of a writing sabbatical — and not the kind of writing yo...
Courteous Mass Friday
--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 pol...
Even the cutting-edge Republicans demand suspicion (and scolding)
--I’ve been meaning to write over on Blog for Democracy about a certain Republican Congressman who is really showing us up on the new media fro...
The Recruiter 3: One Way Out
--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 ...
A video for July 4: The Recruiter 2
--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 bu...
So much for the Jesus Year
--Some people think Catholic guilt is unhealthy, but I think it can be a fine and dandy motivator. And while we can’t all get nailed to a tree...
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...
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 ...
View from my uncle’s deck
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Courteous Mass follows police crackdown
--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 ti...
Gone dissertatin’
--If you hadn’t noticed by the crickets chirping around here, I’m on a bit of a writing sabbatical — and not the kind of writing yo...
Courteous Mass Friday
--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 pol...
Courteous Mass Friday
--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 pol...
Even the cutting-edge Republicans demand suspicion (and scolding)
--I’ve been meaning to write over on Blog for Democracy about a certain Republican Congressman who is really showing us up on the new media fro...
Even the cutting-edge Republicans demand suspicion (and scolding)
--I’ve been meaning to write over on Blog for Democracy about a certain Republican Congressman who is really showing us up on the new media fro...
The Recruiter 3: One Way Out
--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 ...
The Recruiter 3: One Way Out
--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 ...
A video for July 4: The Recruiter 2
--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 bu...
A video for July 4: The Recruiter 2
--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 bu...
So much for the Jesus Year
--Some people think Catholic guilt is unhealthy, but I think it can be a fine and dandy motivator. And while we can’t all get nailed to a tree...
So much for the Jesus Year
--Some people think Catholic guilt is unhealthy, but I think it can be a fine and dandy motivator. And while we can’t all get nailed to a tree...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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, th...
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 g...
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 ...
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 MelanieR...
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....
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 bicyc...
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, wo...
ST08: Still Called to Serve
--On Memorial Day, I always remember my maternal grandfather, Captain Edward F. Zimmerman, MD, USN, who served on the USS Shasta during World War II....
Memorial weekend in Piedmont Park
--Maybe it’s the holiday, but this drum circle seems better than the usual crowd. Mobile post sent by shelbinator using Utterz. Rep...
Brand this!
--I don’t care what it’s called, I would totally subscribe to that guy’s blog or bring him on board projects and campaigns. Just l...
A blogger’s branding problem
--So this is the internet, huh? Well who do I need to shag to get ahead around here? Alright, I don’t think I need to go that far. But I wond...
Inventing their future
--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 meanti...
And Georgia Tech guys complain?
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Cute girl, but what the HECK is she saying?
--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...
Weird science! Brains rain on Atlanta
--The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair is underway in our fair city of Atlanta. Today and tomorrow the kids are being judged —...
Invisible Shield: protect your gadget by not using it
--A couple weeks ago I saw @waynesutton tweet about ordering an Invisible Shield™ cover for his new N95. That reminded me that I had seen the ...
External microphone for N95: the final word (we hope)
--This is just one of those things I need to put out there for the Google-bots to find and index for posterity. Despite there being one YouTube vide...
She’s such a gas bag
--It’s been one of those weeks around here, have you noticed? Grading final projects and owing a report to NASA totally killed my plan to bore...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Wiped Slate
--Well, it’s finally over. The “545 Slate” — a team of five for the fifth district — kinda fell apart. Three of Emily...
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 candid...
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 l...
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 po...
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 th...
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 o...
At least American Idol shows us Round 0 losers
--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 be...
Former Surgeon General on campus for condom-fest
--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 a...
Humpty hump
--Because this is the most interesting thing to happen to me all week at work, I bring you camels. You don’t have camels where you work, do yo...
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 busin...
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...
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...
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 discover...
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 ...
Vine City storm damage 1
--Shot, edited & uploaded from a Nokia N95. Formats available: MPEG4 Video (.mp4), Flash Video (.flv)
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 sui...
N95: The year I make contact
--Click To Play New toy. I am now a Nokia starchild. Well, it’d help if Qik would give me a damn account, anyw...
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-ill...
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 SoCo...
McCain in Buckhead - no word on slaves or Catholics
--John “Straight Talk” McCain will be clogging up Buckhead traffic during rush hour today, dropping in for a minimum $1,000 fundraiser at...
Werd up: Don’t diss the real Street Team ‘08
--When lampooned, I lampoon. Click for video:
Georgia Blog Carnival
--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.
The sincerest form of flattery
--I’m not sure when I first found out that this MTV election coverage thing was going to be called Street Team ‘08. Maybe it was in the ...
Your tax dollars at work
--Next month I’m presenting some of my research with NASA and Pratt & Whitney at the Propulsion Safety and Affordable Reliability conferen...
One of these crimes is not like the other(s)
--What the hell, let’s just make this Abortion Wednesday. I was just alerted to an interesting op-ed in the WaPo about how the US Conference o...
When birth control becomes a capital crime
--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-...
Journalism 3G recap
--It really was information overload for a day and a half at the Computation + Journalism Symposium at Georgia Tech. I think everybody left with som...
YouChoose year in review
--YouTube political editor Steve Grove, a.k.a. CitizenTube, compiled a look back at all of the Democrats’ efforts on YouTube over the past year...
Dissing Alaska: do they smell or something?
--My Alaska cohort for Choose or Lose ‘08 turned in a pretty cheeky vlog this week on Alaska gettin’ no love from the candidates, despite...
Journalism 3G
--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 tryin...
Trust me, it sticks
--Two weeks ago, I hit a doggie landmine while I was out walking my own pooch (complete with my in-the-city necessity for clean living: plenty o̵...
And then a miracle happens!
--I feel like the last blogger in Georgia to chime in on the ridiculous SB 59, a bill crafted by Republicans to be exactly the kind of “nanny s...
Not laziness, collaboration!
--Okay, so it’s really laziness. Or to give myself a little more credit, fatigue. It ain’t easy trying to generate original content on ...
Incoming traffic
--Way, way after the fact I thought I’d make note of some other Super Tuesday on MTV coverage on the internet. Local lifestyle e-zine eLife M...
A long week in Georgia cit-J
--For those of you joining us from CNN, that means “citizen journalism,” something you’ll want to reflect on with much consternatio...
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