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.
The Sun Newspaper, 04/12/08, ROCKETS Magazine, Vince with Slap Chop (Long version), Candy ad, Rejoice Comb Ad, Clever Yoga Ad, Kill Bill ad, Ballet school ad, Butt Jobs ad, 40 Advertisements that Grab your Attention, Light Criticism by Steve Lambert, Light Criticism on Rocketboom, The Bubble Project, The Bubble Project on Rocketboom, Banksy, There’s no such thing as good publicity, Sale ends today, Napalm, The Decapitator, Decapitator: londonpaper hijack @ old street tube 30/01/2008, Transport for London in Buy Nothing Day action?, Tube Ads are good , Adbusters, Adbuster _ Buy Nothing Day, Buy Nothing Day 2007, Add Art
Rocketboom Spotlight: Tomt and I by Daz Spencer Lovesey and Joe Barcham. Produced by: Go Forward Films and Dave Lankester.
Cuba Switching to Linux, Global PC Sales Fall, First Time In Six Years, Why netbooks are killing Microsoft, Han Solo in Carbonite, no, it’s Guacamole!, He’s no guac to me dead, US Becomes Top Wind Producer; Solar Next, Report: Nearly 75% of ex-Bush officials looking for jobs are unemployed, Afghan TV set to unveil model contest, Bottom-up approach needed in Afghanistan: report, Audio Modulated Thunder Music Pleases Thor, AVAILABLE ONLINE FOR FREE (the Sticker). Music by Jen Scaturro, UpitUp
Tokugawa Ietsuna, Tokugawa Iemitsu, Tokugawa Hidetada, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Tokugawa dynasty, Japan, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Volcker Says He Is Confident Capitalism Will Survive, George Soros, www.MichaelJacksonForSale.Com, Prepare for a climate-changed world, say engineers , AWESOME Circus trick!! (Трюк с козой НЕВЕРОЯТНО), Pantalaine Couch Dress, Joplin Resident Discharges Gun Over DTV Converter Box Confusion, Swedish Train Vandalized As Part Of Art Thesis, The snake-like monster of Borneo, Music by UpItUp
Joanne records a response video to a response video to Andy Warhol Eating a Hamburger.
A breakdown of what it means to sign a ‘Terms of Service’ contract on web services. Facebook Hording Your Content? , Facebook has gone too far , Facebook: all your content are belong to us. FOREVER! Protests ensue., Beware of Facebook’s New Terms of Service, I’m Done With Facebook , Interview with “People Against the new Terms of Service”, Facebook and their TOS - Alice, this aint Wonderland anymore!, Big Brother facebook: Who do your pictures belong to?, Oh How Facebook Angers Me., Facebook’s bad case of not loving you, Facebook needs to change their TOS immediately, Farewell, Facebook, How Does Facebook’s TOS Compare To Other Social Networking Sites?, Facebook has finally done it – they own you’re sh*t, People Against the new Terms of Service (Facebook Group), You’re Doing It Wrong
Rocketboom Field Correspondent Ruud Elmendorp covers the return of hostages and military cargo after the ship the MV Faina was seajacked and held by Somali pirates for 19 weeks. The ship was carrying 33 refurbished Soviet era T-72 tanks and at least 14,000 rounds of ammunition. One crewmember died during the ordeal.
The Phantom, Chicken Mountain, Feather scientists have Christmas all wrapped up, Study: Birds shifting north; global warming cited, India to launch cow urine as soft drink, WWWelcome Mat, Hippotato, The Difference Between First Class And Coach, Devolve Me, I Find This Humerus , Twelve Animals: World maps as Chinese zodiac, Karmen Rider X, Video: Starfish Hitler
:D, @onehipmama LOL, pizza!!, John Keats Quotes, Drew Olanoff’s auction to tattoo your Twitter username on his arm for charity, Bidding ends Monday, Make A Wish Foundation, Twestival to raise over $1 Million, for charity:water, Rocketboom at the Shorty Awards, Twitter raises $35 million in funding, Turbaconucken, Corporate Recession Logos, Fingerstache, New Device Reads Minds Pretty Well, 仮面ライダーアギト, Ants tricked into raising butterflies, Jennifer Figge got in deep water with this story
Explaining Evolution. An animation in collaboration with Adam Quirk of Wreck and Salvage. Happy Darwin Day!
Rocketboom Spotlight on Nilo’s Story by Omar Khalifa. Nilofar Habibi, a presenter with Herat TV in Afghanistan, became a symbol of resistance for women journalists in the summer of 2008. In the face of death threats for working as a journalist, Habibi decided to keep working. This is her story. Created by Omar Khalifa assisted by Matthew Egan and Sara Kianpour (translation) with thanks to the Doha Centre for Media Freedom, Qatar. Music: ‘Twice’ by Little Dragon.
Poland’s Wedding to the Sea, Kamera internetowa - Puck Rynek, 56-year-old becomes 1st woman to swim Atlantic , Basement Horse, Image at Dade City car dealership is Jesus, some say, Amazon.com: Chemical Shifts and Coupling Constants for Silicon-29: $8539.00 & eligible for free shipping with Amazon Prime , Evan Roth, TSA Communication, See You See Me, The World Is A Sad Place But I Can Make It Happy Dot Com, Longest Word Ever dude! 1913 Letters, Browser Jockey
Johannes Kreidler - Charts Music - Songsmith fed with Stock Charts, Job Losses In Recent Recessions, Facepalm, Barney Stinson’s Video Resume (fictional character on ‘How I Met Your Mother’), Proof: Japan Discovered Numa Numa, Simroid (a.k.a. ‘Pain Girl’), Would you name your child Nokia?, Re: The Longest Words in the English Language, 867-5309 Auction Ends Today, Twitter of the Office of His Holiness The Dalai Lama, FAKED Chinese Spacewalk !!! Under Water !!! PROOF !!!, Pot backers hit Kellogg’s over Phelps
Scary ‘Mary Poppins’ Recut Trailer, Honorificabilitudinitas, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, ablative, Anarchy Graffiti, punk band, Antidisestablishmentarianism, History of the Church of England, Henry VIII, Thomas Cranmer, Martin Luther, floccinoccinihilipilification, Nose Hair, Dust Smiley, Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, The National Puzzlers’ League., Crosswords, Alfred’s ancestor, Titin
Rocketboom Field Correspondent Ruud Elmendorp visits an ice skating rink in Nairobi, Kenya.
Extinct Pyrenean Ibex Cloned, ‘monument of unity’ by graft architects, imm cologne 09: ‘hendekagram’ by qed*, Proteus Motor Swims Through Bloodstream, Looks Pretty Much Like a Sperm, Across the ocean in a pedal-powered submarine , Aquarium Telephone Booth, Video game conditioning spills over into real life , Can a person be scared to death?, When you watch these ads, the ads check you out , The World’s Smallest Grand Piano, Its a catastrophe for the apostrophe in Britain
World submarine racing championship, Did Nazi angel of death Josef Mengele ‘created twin town in Brazil’?, Candido Godoi, Josef Mengele, Solving Rubik’s cube for speed, 43,252,003,274,489,856,000, 3 x 3 x 1 rubik’s cube is just a wee bit too easy to solve, Rubik’s 360, Hug me pillow, Flexible Breakdancer, N.J. disc jockey to part with Jenny’s number , 867-5309 phone number in NYC area, 8675309 - Rocketboom Wiki, Moscow Fine Art Fair Canceled, Budget Cuts At Smithsonian As New Secretary Installed, American Museums Cut Back Operations, Layoffs Hit L.A. Opera, At Brandeis, A Nightmare Scenario For University Museums, Orlando Opera Cuts 25% Of Its Staff, Will Recession Kill Contemporary British Art?, Opera Orchestra of NY Cancels Remainder Of Season, Cincinnati Symphony Posts Huge $3.8 Million Deficit, Art Bailout - Barter For Art?
