I was reading about the war of words between Ze Frank and Rocketboom on whose numbers are correct and who is getting the biggest audience or the biggest amount of ads…. This is like the old days of radio or TV arguing who has the biggest audience, who has the most influential audience etc but [...]
Rocketboom has fired Amanda. That's silly. Egos must have got in the way. Amanda was Rocketboom. Rocketboom started and explored the possibilities of vlogs in a big way. Somebody has therefore made a mistake. Intriguingly, whatever the reason for the split, opinion is on her side. Farewell, Rocketboom.
I started subscribing to the Rocketboom RSS feed about 5 or 6 months ago – based on a recommendation from Richard McKinnon, one of the Perceptric partners. As a program is has its ups and downs, but when it is hot, it is really great. And the one thing that Amanda and her partner do [...]
There are a lot of things about American society that you can't understand when you are outside of the culture, and in some respects can't really appreciate while you are there. Tivo and Sling Media are two that come to mind…. For anyone who lives there, they are absolutely fantastic tools. (I just got back [...]
If you haven't yet subscribed to Rocketboom, here is one of the programs. It is a review of the new Panasonic HD camera, and it is about as succinct a piece as I can imagine on convergence. TV, Broadcast, PC, Web….. it is here and now. Where does this leave the war between Blu Ray [...]
Over the last week I have been digesting information about content aggregation and delivery into the mobile space – 3G and convergence. The number of multimedia enabled handset devices that are being projected to ship by 2008 or 2010, what content is available, what the business models are likely to be, or are, etc etc. [...]
Rocketboom has sold advertising rights on its 3 minute podcast/vLog for 40,000 US Dollars for one week. The winner, TRM Corporation, was the largest seller of ATM machines in the world. Rocketboom also sold a second week to Earthlink, a leading American ISP. (started by Skye Dalton, now the guy behind Boingo) At 1 million views a [...]
Rocketboom comes to Tivo. The hilarious online vLog can now be programmed directly into my Tivo via the net and home wireless connection. That's signals the final end game for the networks. Amanda and the gang are only the first of many, many more independent operators to come who will program a whole new TV experience. Everyone's who's [...]
Video blogging is taking off. Everyone is walking around with handheld video cameras or they have webcams; they have tons of bandwidth; they have cheap storage. They have personal websites. Why wouldn't video join audio join the written word on the web?. Check out Amanda Congdon at RocketBoom. Her file on 15 Sept is an interesting anti-Cheney/anti Bush slant. [...]