Rocketboom visits a ‘World Record Appreciation Society’ event in New York City, an open, participatory evening of world record setting organized by the creators of the Universal Records Database.
Rocketboom Spotlight: Slagsmålsklubben - Sponsored by destiny. A reinterpretation of the fairytale Little Red Riding Hood. Motion graphics by Tomas Nilsson, music: Slagsmålsklubben
Rocketboom Field Correspondent Ruud Elmendorp investigates the rise in boda bodas (or motorcycle taxis) in Kenya.
Rocketboom Tech field correspondent Ellie Rountree asks SXSW attendees what’s in their gadget bags.
This episode was created in collaboration with Intel!
Director Ben Steinbauer and ‘Winnebago Man’ Jack Rebney speak at the 2009 SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, TX. Winnebago Man documentary. Original Winnebago Man video. Music by Podington Bear.
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Persian Gulf, Arabian Peninsula, Dubai Financial Services Authority, Abu Dhabi, World’s Richest City Wants to Be Culture Capital of Arab World, The outstretched palm (Abu Dhabi bails out its neighbour), Dubai’s six-year building boom grinds to halt as financial crisis takes hold, Rights groups, media workers concerned over draft UAE media bill, Has the crisis left Dubai migrant workers out in the cold?, Laid-Off Foreigners Flee as Dubai Spirals Down, The Baffling World of Visa Restrictions
Chimp’s stone throwing at zoo visitors was ‘premeditated’, A Comeback for Lamarckian Evolution?, The Cones Project, Sorry, this space is taken , Illinois plutocrats are frakkin’ goofy, Benoit Lemoine’s Zipper Tape, The International Space Station to become the second brightest object in the night sky with help from Canadarm2, go away world, leave me alone: ovei personal multimedia environment, pulsewidth’s felt mini synthesizers make soft, squishy music, pul(sew)width, Rolcats: English Translations of Eastern Bloc Lolcats, Pi song YTMND
Rocketboom Tech field correspondent Ellie Rountree visits the Intel Science Talent Search in Washington D.C. Society for Science & The Public, STS 2009 Winners.
This episode was created in collaboration with Intel!
Rocketboom Field Correspondent Ruud Elmendorp interviews Julius Kasyoka, a reporter of Cameras for Kibera. A Dutch project from the Hot Sun Foundation that gives young Kenyans the tools to be citizen journalists.
Who’s afraid of the big bad Tweets? Perhaps Google? Goocam World Map, Town Square, Shake Shack, Waiting in line at Shake Shack. Moving surprisingly slow., Google CEO: Twitter A ‘Poor Man’s Email System’, Google Blog Search Results for ‘Watchmen’, Twitter Search Results for ‘Watchmen’, MT-Hacks: Realtime Twitter Search Results on Google, Mark Carey, Google Buys Jaiku, Follow Rocketboom on Twitter!
Azumi and David Sunglasses, Drink Up, Energy Hogs, In bad times, seed sales grow, Street signs for Mullet Place keep disappearing, backyard mullet, Megamullet, A Boy, His Balloon & His Mullet, bundesliga, Porn in the USA: Conservatives are biggest consumers, Red states consume more porn?, Red Light States: Who Buys Online Adult Entertainment? [pdf], Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, sms/wink;), As like as two peas, Urban Camouflage, water bottles, tap water, water bottle truck, water graph, seeds, mullet place
Facebook and Bebo risk ‘infantilising’ the human mind, Susan Greenfield, Graph: Internet Population Distributio, The Golden Week has begun, Ladies and Gentlemen, , The world’s largest online social network: QZone, Safari 4 benchmarked: 42x faster than IE 7, 3.5x faster than Firefox 3, Ballmer Doesn’t Want to Be ‘Jerry Yang’ of Web Search, The World’s First Garbage Powered Garbage Truck, Facebook Causes Jealousy, Hampers Romance, Study Finds, How using Facebook could raise your risk of cancer, Social Networking Harms Health? LOL, Dr Aric Sigman, Cool Stuff: CHANGE Into a Truck Art Print, Charles Darwin/Fairey/Obama “CHANGE” graphics
Alps-like mountains found buried, BOOMBOX, birdfeeder, IPhone-controlled car to demo at Geneva Motor Show, David Lynch on Twitter, Disco Ball Hat, Earmarks, Rocky Mountain News, 1932 Helicron at Lane Motor Museum, Dow Plummets Below 7000, Can Marijuana Tax Provide a Buzz for Economy?, Kamen Rider X, High Five Escalator, Non-reversing mirror, They’re drinking it up in New York, Obama’s Elf (18 second video pun fun), Pica (disorder), RIAA Sued for Fraud, Abuse and Legal Sham, Snowmobile of 1926 — SO AWESOME, 10 Reasons Why The TV Studios Will Die, North Korea’s Ryugyong Hotel: Ugliest Building on Earth?, Despertà 2009 — Welcome to Hell, Kid, Water Jet Flyer, I’m going to be frozen when I die, says X Factor guru Simon Cowell, sweet sweet iphone, Planta fondo oscuro, Amgen Tour of California 2007 stage map, Connor eats the table, Inevitable, illuminati, Crop Circle - Savernake Forrest, The New York Stock Exchange, No Trespassing, Online Fraud, Simon Cowell, Liquid Nitrogen Tank behind building 9
Alive In Baghdad interviews Hassan Fadhel Allah al-Hussaini, the editor of Rayat al-Arab newspaper in Baghdad. He offers a personal perspective on the wide variety of dangers facing journalists in Iraq.
