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Shelby Highsmith

Atlanta, GA
33.748314, -84.391106
shelbinator.com

About: I'm into rocket science; science, technology & security policy; political communications; and riding bikes. And shiny objects I can't afford.

After a tour as Communications Chair for the Young Democrats of Atlanta, I went off on my own to do some web work with a presidential campaign (that didn't survive Iowa), some o' that "citizen journalism" with Huffington Post's Off the Bus team, and am now the Georgia correspondent for MTV's Choose or Lose '08 election coverage.

Title Blogger
Organization shelbinator.com
Interests politics, policy, research, technology, journalism, cycling, beer
What online communities are you active in? Facebook, ThinkMTV, YouTube, Twitter, Blip.tv, Ustream, MySpace, Dodgeball, Flickr, LinkedIn, LastFM
What topics are on your radar for 2008? citizen journalism, online political campaigning
What topics are you an expert in? People in this field get away with throwing "expert" around too much because other people's fear of new technology allows them to get away with it. As for me, I am an active explorer of online political campaigning and citizen journalism, based on the experience I mentioned above. I'm pretty handy with videoblogging and podcasting.

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Blog Posts

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Georgia Street Team retrospective

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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...

Celebrating at Manuel’s

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Just a few of the moments from last night; I gotta go get my Flixwagon footage off the server.

Election Day coverage

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My phone will not be broadcasting to my usual Flixwagon account today; for ease of production I’ll be publishing to a parallel server for MTV...

Science is hard

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It’s true; most scientists agree science is hard. I know this all too well first hand. But that doesn’t mean you can mock and ignore i...

Whither a Divided America?

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Last weekend I was feeling election fatigued — even partisanship fatigued. I was nauseated by most of the things I saw going on at McCain-Pa...

McCain / Plumber ‘08

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Of course, you know the nutty xenophobes out there will just insist on using Joe the Plumber’s middle name constantly to stoke the “The...


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Comments

Leonard Witt:

Hi Shelby:

Welcome and be sure to bring your MTV gear.

For those who read this post, Shelby is Georgia's MTV citizen journalist for the 2008 presidential campaign year. He wrote a nice post about what it is like to be a member of the MTV
Street Team '08
.