John Wittenauer wrote this fantastic piece about GDELT which includes some wonderful quotes like "there are times when I’m reminded just how powerful these cloud computing platforms are, and the extent to which they enable grand ideas to be made reality … such is the case with the GDELT Project" and "I downloaded the events file from yesterday … even in the first few dozen entries there was a fascinating variety of recordings – everything from news related to Tesla’s new battery factory to coverage of Julian Asange’s trial to the Pope’s upcoming visit to Africa." John concludes his post that remarking that GDELT is "a reminder that grand ideas that may have seemed far-fetched even a decade ago are entirely possible today, enabled in part by the seismic movements in fields such as cloud computing."