Georgia's entrepreneurs compete for investment on reality TV show

The authorities in Georgia have declared a state of emergency and sent troops into the capital, Tbilisi, after severe flooding.

When Things Fall Apart, an experimental campaign launching Friday, deconstructs and reconstructs your Twitter avatar over three days when you donate $10 or more to the Red Cross. Using a visual language called Processing, your picture will be scattered and periodically rebuilt over 60 hours in 12-hour increments. When Things Fall Apart thematically mirrors the work the Red Cross does, rebuilding communities that have been shattered to pieces by natural disasters. The campaign fits into Georgia Tech Professor Eric Gilbert’s research on Twitter mobilization through changing profile pictures in both organic and orchestrated campaigns. Since people adopted green icons during the Iranian uprisings in 2009, cause campaigns have used profile pictures to generate awareness. “I’m pretty fascinated by these campaigns, but they’re also really easy to fake, at max requiring a very basic knowledge of Photoshop,” Gilbert told ...

Could there be Mayan ruins in North Georgia? A researcher there wrote online that ancient ruins in the area were remarkably similar to Mayan structures in Central America. A University of Georgia archeologist called the argument "bunk." Hundreds of web users piled on.