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Rocketboom rocks! I am currently on a multiweek mission to watch every single Rocketboom. I discovered RB about a month ago and am trying to make my way through the archive to get the “full experience.” I am fairly conservative, but I still enjoy RB! Rock on!
Wow, I’m first!
And… I don’t have anything to say except:
1. I LOVE ROCKETBOOM!!!
2. I didn’t watch the ad
Whooops, I’m not first!
Oh, well…
Sorry that I beat you to it! I have been hitting the refresh button all day hoping for the next episode! Funny… oreomankelly and kelly… =)
The webby awards and boing boing! Nice score. I loved the super-secret feeling of huddling together in the wild Austin bayou. BTW - “Cryptozoology is the study of animals that are presumed to exist, but for which conclusive proof is missing…” Had to look that one up. Oh, and congrats on wrapping the very cool TRM ad week.
I care.
Nice interviews although I would like to have learned a little more about the Webby awards.
It took a week but I finally “get” the commercial. I was never sure if you wanted to make people buy a TRM machine, or use one, or rob one, or what. So you want people to sell them. That’s O.K.. But make the point sooner next time.
I hope you realize that with the number of hits you’re getting a week and the make- up of your audience you carry a really big stick and could advertise anything you want. Why not advertise for a company you know about and is interesting to you(and could give you good freebies).
Not to nit-pick but there is no such thing as a bayou in Austin.
GW: Yes, I was just kidding. They were near a Lagoon. Lagoons remind me of Bayous.
Andre, I knew you were kidding.
It was more of a dig on my part for the vast difference between the lakes and streams in the “Hill Country” of central Texas and the bayous/swamps of Louisiana.
Hello! Webby Awards! Cool stuff. I still look up to you guys! Great links today… I very much enjoy the show…
How do you get the video so clear?
Thanks
Jason
http://www.unzappedtv.com
I’m disapointed there was no half-naked thursday this week. Nor was there the “comment of the week”.
Dang.
Don’t look directly at the ATM ads!!!
“It will burn a hole right through your brain”
Steve Brudniak
I thought casual Friday’s was about having some fun, so here you go fellow
RBers
(I still think TRM is a code word for another hallucengic drug)
http://infinitewheel.com/dubselector6.html
http://infinitewheel.com/dubselector4.html
Forget t say:
just run dursor over icons once site loads
HEY, GET A WIND SCREEN FOR THE MIC ON THAT CAMERA.
THNX,
JUB
Those are they gayest commercials ever….
for that I will remember them.
Looks like amanda has a crush on DMD…
Webbies and Boingboing, good content.
I wish I could tell you how to improve your ads. I think, just lose the juvenile feel they have, and you’ll do much better.
Have a great weekend!
Amanda fancies DMD.
Amanda fancies DMD.
Nnananaa
You should have cutted that out. It’s really m embarrassing
Great show as always. It took me five episodes to realize the superhero thing was the long-awaited ad but if your goal was to get people to go to TRM.com, well you got me…
The banjo music in the middle– you guys aren’t by any chance fans of Hanochan?
Well… The widescreen iTunes feed is a LITTLE better. At least now it doesn’t pad the top and bottom… But it’s anamorphic now! (It only looks right if I open the file in QuickTime Player, and tell it to stretch it out to 426 pixels wide instead of 320.)
Come on now… 320×180 is the resolution you’re looking for! (Or 426×240, but then it’s too big for the iPod.)
I appreciate the links below the viewer on your web page. I’ve tried several RSS/Vlog/whatever readers, and ultimately, the best thing in my opinion is to go directly to the site. I also love that I can save off the show in any of the formats.
To sum, keep those links! And keep up the good work :)
I liked the sound of the wind in the background, gave me the feel of being there. Cool banjo music. Probably will not try and sell TRM’s but would love to buy those glasses!!
AMANDA: STOP FLIRTING WITH YOUR INTERVIEWEDS and begin flirting with your commenters, remember SMALL IS THE NEW big
I liked Amanda talking flirty with DMD. It was cute. That’s what makes her so darned endearing and fun to watch!
Good episode!
Pointing out cheesiness in an RB segment is like “giving crazy to Angelina Jolie,” as the Ninja would say. We have plenty of that already. What would RB be without occasional cheese? And of course we all love it, ’cause it’s the sharp kind with no trans fat.
Hey! I like trans-fat, I like cheese, and I love TRiM.
Congratulations! I just watched you on “Le Point” on Radio-Canada, Canada’s national French television station. The focus was on the rise of blogging, and an interview with Amanda (and is that Drew?) as well as a few others.
This is the website’s description of the show:
_________________
Public branché
(17 mars 2006) - Il y a de plus en plus de blogues sur Internet, et ils sont de plus en plus fréquentés. À l’heure actuelle, on en compte plus de 27 millions dans le cyberespace.
Les blogues, ce sont des sites web personnels qui vont du commentaire politique écrit àla présentation d’émissions de télévision et de radio, produites avec les moyens du bord, sans contrôles ni balises. C’est une solution de rechange aux médias établis, où informations et rumeurs se concurrencent.
S’agit-il de simples chroniques d’opinion ou d’une véritable révolution en journalisme?
Achille Michaud et Marie-Ève Bédard se sont promenés dans la blogosphère
_________________
http://www.radio-canada.ca/actualite/v2/tj22h/
My very rudimentary translation:
Blogs are rapidly increasing in number. Blogs make it easier for people to get their opinions out there. Is it just a bunch of people whining, or is this a real journalistic revolution?
Well, I don’t think they used the word “whining”, but that’s kinda how I took it…
Anyway, you guys came off looking and sounding great. Even en francais. 8-)
Have a great weekend!
Connie
Those costumes and glasses are a great equalizer. They make someone who is acknowlagebly hot, so-so: and those who are not quite so-so, sort of a little hotter but still so-so-ish. I hope nobody’s girlfriend get offended by that. In the end everybody looked like they were “advanced” 12-year olds playing dress-up. But I liked the commercial for its zaniness. Great Zane! But for an ad on the internet, you forgot the website address to find out more. Is that an oops? Or a “duh, you’ll figure it out”?
What’s with the downloadables from iTunes not working? Both today’s and Monday’s don’t work at all — they’re like 25 MB in size, but they don’t display anything and aren’t recognized by QuickTime.
Interesting interview, though, I just couldn’t watch it with Front Row. :(
– Simone
That was the first commercial I sat all the way through - maybe I was just happy after hearing the mellow Austin banjo music - hey - help our brother plucker out and tell us who he is!
Hey Tycho,
Watch the ad again. The ladies mention the website before their ‘transformation’. I agree that the point of the ads was somewhat vague until the end, but that didn’t bother me, since it kept me coming back for more. (well, not that I wouldn’t watch anyway) And it also made the ads sort of multi-purpose, i.e. if someone is looking to put an ATM in their store they get an idea who to go to, and if someone is looking to supplement their income, they know where to look. And all that revenue-generating goodness comes wrapped up in a yummy confection of classic, vintage RB silliness. Sounds like a win/win/win situation to me. :-)
and i still got no idea what TRM is and what the heck a ATM should be.. (yes, i clicked the website once!) :)
Yeah I’d like to put an ATM in front of my house, so I don’t have to walk 6 blocks to go to the bank. Also my zaide Saul who lives in an old age home would like one on his floor so he can get quick cash for chewable exlax in his vending machine.
I’d also like another TRM for a park nearby with the huge fountain so I can watch people get soaking wet while attempting to get some cash. Maybe this one could have a fast-blast hairdryer attached.
TRM’s should also be on top of Mt. Shasta in case you wanna buy peanuts for the squirrels, The Himalayans for yak berries and Mt. Fuji for any native lap dancers trying to earn a living.
How about a floating TRM bouys around boating docks in Miami & Hawaii?
Yes TRM with you by our side we can buy what we like anytime we’d like to have it. .
Oh yeah, could someone install one in the washroom at the YMCA on Lexington Ave, in Michigan.
Thanks TRM, with you around we can all go into debt sooner than later.
Yippee!
Good episode, if only for the BoingBoing commentary. The ad, despite your effort to the contrary, was very abrasive. I
_really_ don’t want to sell ATM machines.
- Basho Parks
Dear story teller - Get a life.
Sorry, but I found your post to be annoying and a waste of space. My finger hurts from scrolling down for 10 minutes.
As for RB this week —- ZZZzzzzzzzzzz. But nice work with the last banjo garage band mix. An exciting way to watch a black screen.
Looking forward to your return to NYC.
Much Love (as always), Jen in Colorado
Hey Max Smouha: Comments do not equal personal blog. Get your own. This is Drew and Amanda’s. Plus the story was boring.
do do do dei dei dei!
now!but remenber then the mounth of the true…wednesday.the romans and the greece farrious for the womens!!!butter is true !!anysome…thanks you ,BUFFY
ps: :o
hey folks:
I was at SXSW for the film festival, and I have to say that the interactive panels were some of the most exciting things happening last week in austin. david-michel’s and david’s panel in particular had a really fascinating multi-pointed and audience-participation conversation which was actually going somewhere, very tricky to facilitate with so many people. then we all got kicked out of the room and it was on to the next thing.
second: there was no time to see any of austin, festivals exist in a bubble. but that’s ok; that bubble is no less valid a location for existing in time instead of in space. the ‘art world, the ‘film world’, the ‘digital world’ - where are any of these except when we all get together for something like this? and how valuable to be able to have these things manifest every now and then. privileging the so-called ‘real’ over the virtual impoverishes our options, and none of us really live in only one of those spaces. even before computers!
Holy fcuk! That was one long dumb ass — whatever the f it was (honestly, my thumb is tired from scrolling.) Ok. Now to what I wanted to “comment” (huge “air quotes” here) on.
Did Amanda sound smitten today when she said “DMD”? Honestly. Didn’t she? Is it just me? Am I just reading into things here? Well, my question is a day late and no one may make it this far in the comments to react to my speculation.
Curse you long poster!
=)
Wow those commercials are really aweful. Skipping them with every show.
The web guy at work’s been trying to get me to check you guys out for months. So, I just checked you out.
You’ve got another subscriber. Keep up the good work!
AND
Amanda, if you ever make it down to K-Nowhere, WI, the pizza and BEER are on me!
())) crayola ))>