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Much improved. Looks like Rocketboom is back on track. Yea!
Nice work.
Great show today guys. I am glad everything is back on track. Awesome header Joanne. Oh my your British but think we should call the world greatest game soccer and not football! I hope your friends back home dont hear about this, lol.
This one needed a little more energy.
Especially liked the car dust art.
Welcome back Joanne.
Nice show. Enjoyed it!
I really like the new rocketboom.org addition, episode was okay, but it does feel like RBs getting back to what works. Still a fan…
Nice soccer ball! (I’d call it soccer too…)
The football field is in Munich in the olympic park and I saw some people playing on it when I was there for the World Cup. Very funny to watch - wish I had a video to share with you of that.
BTW the pitch was in the Olympic Park as part of the Fan Fest for the World Cup. We were there with 60,000 Germans watching them play Sweden (in the stadium outside the city) - an awesome atmosphere, almost as good I imagine as being with the 60,000 in the actual stadium!
Hello RB,
This RB Queen can do good interview even on court tv. Speak french and head a soccer ball. This is the my queen.
Regards,
Denis
Thank YOU Joanne, Drew & Co for producing the coolest show! Amanda keeps whining, Rocketboom keeps rocking. Says all, doesn’t it. I still love Rocketboom and I tell all my friends about it! I like the way Joanne is pronouncing «Rocketboom»… and I love everything about it. Greetings from Switzerland!
Love RB 2.0! I think it is better than before.
Nice episode. Glad to see you back.
I think it was a good move to drop the keyboard clicking. I imagine Joanne never considered doing the head swishing thing Amanda did.
Actually, the 200 million light-year wide Blob is the latest entry into the V-Blob arena and will begin transmitting a daily video Blob to the entire universe next Monday when all the gas molecules in its bubble infrastructure are properly aligned. It will be hosted by Master Blob whose voice is so powerful, it can blow out your ear drums and make your tongue curl. Which means, only the mightiest galaxies will survive. Can’t wait to hear V-BLOB inter-dimensional news? Leave SETI a comment on how to reconfigure your computer and your brain. Long Live The Blob.
B-man
I’ve watched Rocketboom on and off for the past six months, admittedly not as closely and attentively as I have the past few weeks. Maybe because of the recent drama, or maybe because I feel I have a chance to catch up and feel involved with the new Rocketboom initiative.
Overall, I miss the faster pace the show had before, however this was certainly one of the better shows I had seen since Amanda had left.
better drew–almost a show:
- joanne needs to cut off about 2 inches of her split ends. hot oil treatment might save an inch, but I say nuke two inches.
- you need to triple the pace of the show–i almost fell asleep. the kid missing an eyeball woke me up… but I’m not sure that ogrish footage is a long-term recipe for retaining sleepy viewers.
- if you’re going to define a recurring theme, try and make it more interesting than shoe laces. and try and wait at least 72 hours between recycling the same footage. that way people perceive it as ‘thematic’ and not ‘crap we still had on the hard drive.’
- the jazzbo music footage: that got old in rocketboom 1.0. there are another dozen songs on that record, and “they might be giants” only reworked one of them a decade ago. either be original, or artful, or at least mix it up. TMBG does three. I’d settle for you doing one.
really, where’s the new stuff my friend? such an opportunity to get rid of the things that were old and annoying — the hair bobs, the dorky visual puns, the ridiculous map. all back in version 2.0.
only microsoft manages to do less between revisions.
if joanne had ripped down that stupid map today and did something to make it her own, you would have heard cheers.
experiment! don’t be afraid, dude… a quick glance at alexa shows that all the new viewers bailed. you have an opportunity to rebuild. do something!
Speaking of amanda - I have to apologize to you drew. I first linked up to rb through the one red paper clip story and landed right into all the drama behind the scenes which was a pretty interesting story in itself. I listened to amanda story on her blog and it was sooooooo convincing. How could it be anything but true? Well that is till I read your side. Then I got it - Amanda’s actions are totally conducive to someone trying to enforce their legal position. It is weak to go into court and claim ownership after you have quit but if you go in saying you were fired and had acted in good faith the whole time then that is a much stronger postion. Now that makes sense why her version is so different then yours. Boy it must be wierd having your whole drama aired so publically but the upside is the hugh publicity for rb. So all not so bad. Well there ya go - note to self - listen to both sides before judging. geez always something to learn or re-learn
It appears the UK is no longer the target of the Rocketboom rocket. Though there wasn’t a close-up, I do think the target may be gone. Thanks!
In this episode Joanne says that the blob may have been around for 200 billion years. Nope. The article itself says just 2 billion years, and the age of the entire universe is estimated at 13.7 billion years.
I can’t believe my country (Venezuela) is listed as a happy one… they (the creators of the map) should live here and tell me if they’re happy.
For what, exactly what were the Colombian hackers taking revenge?!? I understand that hackers take pride in attacking government sites but it seems a lame excuse to use a Muslim vs. Hebrew conflict to break the law in the Western Hemisphere. I hope someone catches the hackers and sends them to Lebanon to fight side-by-side with Hezbollah. Then, and only then, will their message have any credibility.
I hate to be a miserable bastard but I just thought Joanne was trying too hard. What happened? She was natural last week. And you don’t need all the silly gimmicks - the paper-catching, ball butting, wacky camera angles. Just be yourself and rely on good content. BTW you seem to be using a fair bit of BoingBoing’s stuff. You called for contributors and you don’t seem to have used them. It’s not time for self-congratulations. This was alright but it didn’t exactly turn my crank, if you know what I mean. But I’m hanging in. Cheers.
Back to normal, hooray!
I wasn’t too crazy about all those field reports and last week was pretty bad. But this week, it’s back up to par.
Her delivery of enthusiastic perkiness comes across very fake and contrived.
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Welcome back. Nice header.
Yay new rocketboom! Hopefully it’s finally back to being daily.
Lose the old Amanda stuff!
We get it, Drew is in charge.
These were your ideas, the head turn, the map, the “good Monday”.
Let it go! Start anew! Get over yourself.
I do believe God created universe (has to be a “great designer”, and also Bible says so). But could God not create an “adult” universe. Also, how many years between Genesis 1:1 & 1:2? Maybe millions?
GREAT JOB Rocketboom & Joanne. Very interesting Monday & very interesting comments!
loved today. liked the mix and the pace… it was a bit low key but that fits in with my busy day…
much prefer joanne… would like to see different spots on the map to have the “target” and then the stories to revolve around that area…
Please. If Joanne rips down the map, I will write a poem to her and post it on my blog.
I mean, it just doesn’t get better than that.
Joanne Colan is so sexy!!
When THE BLOB takes over you will have no choice but to re-initialize and create
Rocketboom 3.0
Resistance is futile
BLOB= 2 billion years of experience
RB 1.0 & 2.0 = 2.5 years tops
(yes Master Blob, I have forwarded your transmission to all the vlogs on planet Earth. Oh so you want to go out for a smoothie, okay, meet you in the Delta Quadrant)
Good to have you back!
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060731/D8J74BN80.html
Hi Joanne,
It’s good to see you again, you look fantastic.
Quirky, a little daring (the gruesome pic), and a gaggle of fun stuff. Feels like things are getting back on track to me… :)
have to echo the others: drop the hamanda effects and let jc be jc - she’s a better, more dignified anchor anyway and having her copy what dongdon made a signature is really kinda betraying and underestimating jc’s own unique charms and talent. give her some room to be herself. it’s a formula that worked in the past. trust your judgement and let do her own thing - personality is the currency here. don’t try to manipulate or counterfeit it.
Hey, what’s with the ring?
Today was a good show. But I’m not sold on playing football (basketball, or anything) in that piece of land.
I agree with the other posters who said that Joanne must not have the same ways as Amanda, when presenting. I think she could develop herself naturally. I agree with pixelstackr when said that she’s a better anchor. Thats why I think she has to be just herself. I (and I guess, many other) don’t want to see another clone, just let her be herself. I trust her presenting skills.
stot said:
“Hey, what’s with the ring?”
She’s Lady of the Rings, just she only have one (she needs a few more to go). Consider her as the Gollum of RocketBoom (just a bit prettier)
PS Hope Joanne is not using Gollum’s voice in next episode ;)
Whoops, I knew I forgot something. I want to ask to the
(LAME !)^106
guy, what on earth do you suggest in order to improve the show? Come on, enlighten us with a clever suggestion
Do any of you honry ass rocketboomers want to fuck me up the ass!!!!
is it me, or does Joanne’s hair seem lighter?
Hi there,
another vote for change. Change the map, change the style. Let Joanne be herself and find her own style. I think its up to Joanne to come up with ideas about how she can express herself best. I think in this case the “director” should be the coach rather than dictating how Joanne should behave.
Since, my friend, you have revealed your
deepest fear, I sentence you to be exposed before your peers!
Tear down the map!!!
…Tear down the map!
…Tear down the map!
So many anal viewers out there! When I watch Joanne I’m only thinking how absolutely refreshing and unforced her delivery is… ESPECIALLY today.
I betcha dollars to donuts that if the tired old map was gone nobody would even think to accuse Joanne having Amanda mannerisms. That’s the only negative criticism I agree with today. Lose the map.
Joanne, you’re WONDERFUL!
Drew…You’re doing fine, but LOSE THE FREAKIN’ MAP!!!
Of course, it’s your show and if you want to keep the map I guess those of us who never ever liked it can keep on bitching about it.
RB is back.
But it looks like an old RB 1.0 episode
with Joane in it. The part with the crazy close camera angle , I almost thought it was Amanda (on downers).
I agree with the others. TEAR DOWN THE MAP!!! And let Joane present the news her own way
The world is 6 billon years old not 6,000 years. Some old monk must have mistranslated it when he was rewriting the Bible back in the Dark Ages.
The Blob is what THE BIG GUY forgot to put in
aaahhhhh …
er… yep .. aaahhhhhahhhh
errrrr … aaahahahahahahahahah
ahhhhh….
……just
GREAT.
Worth the wait - welcome back.
To hartless:
The hacking crew is from Chile, not from Colombia. English is not my native language and I got that right… Don’t finger-point that lightly
And without lazy administrators, there wouldn’t be any hackers in this planet.
Boring and bad par for rocketboom now a days.
Glad to have RB back. JC is a great host and writing is good too!
However, JC, be yourself, don’t try to be someone else. You’ve got the talent!!!!
I’ll have to agree, it seems some of the stuff is a blatant copy of old RB stuff.
Ditch the map and some of the fruity old A.C. movements…..
I’m losing interest in this show. I agree JC didn’t seem herself today and it bugged me. And I guess it’s only me but I don’t find many of these stories interesting. I’d like to see some more important stories but handled in the unique style of RB.
I must *really* be a freak, though, because what I do like is the map. What do you propose replacing the map with? I love maps, personally.
i say keep the map — how is it in any way more “amanda” than anything else? just because people are having difficulty adjusting doesn’t mean it should come down. using their logic, the name “rocketboom” should be changed and all references to “rss” should be changed to “feed-based syndication technology”.
and put a larger target over england — it’s the central foundation of the civilized world after all, both in terms of time zones and the whole stonehenge mystery hints that it could even be where time in fact began, right after rocks were invented. it deserves a special highlighting in my opinion. maybe add a few umlauts to really make it right. and for this idea, i expect you to charge that idiot who’s always “pricing” his ideas US $6 thousand million.
i’m really glad, also, that the question of how old the universe really is has been cleared up on this comment thread. it’s the perfect place for it, and i’ve always been uncertain. until now, that is.
awesome episode, and the nathan’s hot dog episode was a nice bonus — thanks andrew and joanne. joanne, it’s a treat to watch you.
Are dutch shoelaces really the best? I always thought they wore wooden shoes…which would make the laces very dificult to tie !
Glad to have to have you back, Joanne. I like what you do. And football is a fine word for the game. We just have to call it soccer because we in the US are out of step with the world. Nice header, it was. Very important move. I like any quirky things you like to do to bring your personality to bear on the show. Drew too and staff did a fine job.
Joanne, you are wearing the same shirt as Cali Lewis from geekbrief.tv today. Except her shirt is brown and yours is white.
Is it rude to mention that this is the second time I’ve seen a story on Rocketboom that has apeared only a few days before on Mobuzz?
The reality roller shoes was on Mobuzz on 7/27.
Previously you did a story on the artist Mark Jenkins on 7/24.
Mobuzz did a story on him on 7/21.
I love Joanne, but I would like to see stories that I don’t hear of on other similar podcasts.
I say replace the map with one of the cosmos…
Joanne still seems to be uncomfortable in front of the camera at times.
The only original thing she’s done so far is to NOT do what Amanda used to do, but Joanne hasn’t done anything innovative for the show at all.
I’m beginning to fear for RB. It doesn’t have that fresh, hip, ad-libbed feel that Amanda brought to it.
Joanna is just a generic, replaceable chick, while
No chick is a geek like Amanda.
Just the fact that you do this every day deserves a pat on the back. Keep up the good work.
Joanne, did you really mean it when you said the Big Blob was 200 billion years old? And here we’ve been told by the pros it’s under 13 billion - go figure:
http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/age.html
So I guess retirement is closer than we thought (can’t wait for that Social Security pension…)
Michael
A) jazzybc said (talking about Amanda):
“It is weak to go into court and claim ownership after you have quit…”
Well, if she claims ownership, I hope she is coherent enough to accept the burdens of a common venture, that is,to participate in the expenses of RB, not only in profits. Because if not, this is not a fair co-ownership. Anyway, having being partners for some time, does not force any of the parts to be partners “till death set them apart”, and no court will tie them together for the eternity (and that is the impression I have of Amanda’s intentions, that is, to be a capitalist partner-wonder if only in profits- untill the end. And that is only viable if Drew agrees, but considering the status of things…), rather than decide the moment of the separation and give each his part of profit, considering that each has to finance her/his part of expenditure necessary to make the show (it’s not free at all)
B) Man of Impeccable Taste said:
“So many anal viewers out there!”
??? I guess your taste is as impeccable as your manners are not.
“…unforced her delivery is… ESPECIALLY today”
I personally did not say it is forced, but she still needs to get her own style. She’s doing fine and she just started (so to speak).
“I betcha dollars to donuts that if the tired old map was gone nobody would even think to accuse Joanne having Amanda mannerisms”
Addusing? What’s that, a trial? Nobody is accusing, just commenting (I guess that’s why the comment section was created for). Anyway, I don’t gamble, so, gentleman, search some online casino to bet.
“Joanne, you’re WONDERFUL!”
I have to agree here.
“Of course, it’s your show and if you want to keep the map…”
Nobody denies it’s his show. People are just using the comment section as it is intended for.
C) phranscene said
“Is it rude to mention that this is the second time I’ve seen a story on Rocketboom that has apeared only a few days before on Mobuzz?”
Well, different sites cover the same news. Some ones will have the advantage of airing them first, sometimes will be RB this one airing it first. Perhaps this one thing for improvement, specially in a increasingly competitive media.
“Joanne, you are wearing the same shirt as Cali Lewis from geekbrief.tv today. Except her shirt is brown and yours is white”
Hahaha…We’ve got a Sherlock Holmes right here!
PS I am not bothered in any way with the map, although Narendra’s idea of using the cosmos map is not a bad one
Errata:
When addressing to Man of Impeccable Taste i said “Addussing” instead of “Accusing”
Sorry
Joanne is a lovely person but it seems she is trying too hard. The exagerated arm movements and the high pitch in her voice says “I need to get my own groove on but I am not sure how to do it yet.” But keep it up. BTW, the pace was lagging…
The pink soccer ball and the “heading on” transition was brilliant.
to luis:
thanks for clarifying that the hackers were Chilean vice Columbian. And clarifying that since all network administrators are lazy, it is now legal to hack any government websites. I just wish you had answered the main question which is “What required South American hackers to seek revenge? i.e., how were they affected by the Israel vs. hezbollah struggle?
I don’t finger point lightly, I’ve seen combat operations on more than one continent. I do want to know what people are fighting for…or determine if they’re just seeking 15 minutes of fame.
The blog as you call it is some kind of nebula I think. Also it can’t be 200 billion years old as the universe is only about 15 billion years old.
I think the lovely Joanne is just as good as the lovely Amanda. One thing though: You Americans can call the game of football “SaaaKur” but we brits call it football for a reason. We use our foots to play the game, not our hands as in your sport. Not saying that you yanks are backwards or anything…
Come on Goooooners!
you use your foots when doing your maths??? why do you brits have such f-ed up pluralization of things???
joanne colan is NO Amanda!! She totally sucks ass!! Rocketboom was Amanda, without her there is no more rocketboom…
joanne colan is NO Amanda!! She totally sucks ass!! Rocketboom was Amanda, without her there is no more rocketboom…
joanne colan is NO Amanda!! She totally sucks ass!! Rocketboom was Amanda, without her there is no more rocketboom…