really Joanne, the date is right above your head -- you say it's August 28, but that's already yesterday. ALSO dying to know of the pixelated map conflict. how did it fail you?
I think the old map is right for the show. The new map was a distraction and background, in my opinion, should be just that. Andrew made a good decision in asking you to join the RB team. You have a great delivery and a slight resemblance to Lynne from "Lynne and Tessa" google videos - good combo! Big fan of 2.0. Keep up the good work....
Mixing things up is something everyone would like. When you have techno/futuristic stories use the "new map". When you have eco-friendly stories shoot their intro behind a desk in the park. For urban stories give their intro while walking in Manhattan.
Just get a flat LCD screen back there and let's have some virtualazation. I think there might be an urge for it with the pixelated world map choice recently. Subconscious. So you can deliver allot more news interactively. Probably cheap on EBAY.
We are moving beyond just Earth coverage as well so maybe a space picture.
Those two YouTube Videos (improv everywhere and rub. cube) were featured on YouTube a week ago... please dont assume this is the only place we get our content... or maybe find something they didnt feature... or get a little quicker on the uptake.
Hmm, the old map... Reminds me of elementary school. With Joanne pulling her hair back like the school marm I guess it fits right in. BTW: As usual, I'm the one in the back of the class looking out the window. Keepin' a close eye on that grass!
more than an appropriate amount of rocketboom content has been coming straight off the youtube home page and other site's 'featured' and 'most popular' sections lately. it might seem like this is a recipe for growth (popular videos elsewhere = popular video here) but it doesn't work that way.
creative commons aside, ya gotta do something interesting with this stuff, drew -- you can't just eat it and vomit it back up. that doesn't move things forward.
when rocketboom is doing it right, youtube, digg and other sites will be pointing people at you instead of the other way around. and that's the way to grow your audience.
i don't think having a pretty girl giving out links to the youtube home page is the greatest concept ever for a show, but if the videos were a bit underground or (gasp) part of a greater theme it would help.
maybe make it easier/more apparent/rewarded for viewers to recommend stories? a 'paste a non-obvious youtube/google vid link here' button?
Since (I think) the show is about discovering new and interesting things - how about a really old map with undiscoverd territories, and missing sections. And they are usually in nice earth tones. :-)
honestly I think both maps are lame you should put a sweet gren screen with like the solar system on it, or star trek window with stars flying by or something
Hi Joanne,
Another great show, you worry to much. Your beautiful, funny, smart, that's all I care about. I'd still watch the show even if there was no map, no desk, just as long as there was plenty of Joanne Colan. Oh that reminds me ,luv the way you did your hair today, very sharp. Can't wait for your next show pretty lady.
I don't have time to spend at youtube, poking around for an hour to find three minutes worth of entertainment. One service RB provides for me is to direct my attenion to fun or interesting stuff from other sites.
Even so, you know your content could be more exciting when the big buzz in the peanut gallery is about the map.
Great Show -- the improv everyone folks are awesome. Such a great public performance art piece. And the one-handed speedcubing was indeed, anthropoligically speaking, fascinating.
A great show... who had the clever idea to use the Flaming Lips "Slow Motion" music? Whoever it was has good taste!
As for the map, the older one featured in todays show is best. I vote for keeping it simple and using it, just like the BBC would. Unless you want to go for my mosaic idea...?
I watched the whole church video. That was awful - so scary and I felt like I had steped in something in my mind. I saw the point but it was really too cynical and it brought me down. Plus the slow mo group seems that it has reached a critical mass of coolness and has become parody. Who cares if a bunch of people walk arround like they have just gotten out of the ER with a buttock full of Thorozine(tm) - You know it is funny if you think of it that way.
Regarding Katrina, according to the best weather site around: www.ncdc.noaa.gov "With sustained winds during landfall of 125 mph (110 kts) (a strong category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale)--
infact seems like all the news outlets say it was cat. 3 when it made landfall, so what makes you think it was a category 2, tim???
also, the "mechanical failure" of the levees WAS in fact due, at least IN PART to the heavy storm surge caused by the heavy storm.
As for the map, neither one really does it for me. A greenscreen may work allowing the background to be changed but I'm not sure. Keep the desk, change the background. And it would be a good idea to have a link on there so we can suggest content.
I liked the new map. gave a little more contemporary edge. the map dressed the show better with the school teacher look of Amanda. I was quite dissapointed when I saw it was back, because it looked so well with the new. oh well, Joanne's new hairdye was scary enough on top of it.
Keep the new map, I like it. I don't really want to see the old map anymore. You need to reinvent the show and doing that requires a new background. Nothing cheesy like a skyline you would see on late night tv, something geeky like a binary world map. 1's and 0's make the world go round!
My two cents.
Keep the old map. Its a good non-intrusive background and real map too. The new map (not really a map) was just bad. Love the show and you too. Thanks
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Good show.
I think the old map is right for the show. The new map was a distraction and background, in my opinion, should be just that. Andrew made a good decision in asking you to join the RB team. You have a great delivery and a slight resemblance to Lynne from "Lynne and Tessa" google videos - good combo! Big fan of 2.0. Keep up the good work....
don't give a s**t about the map...
but
improve the lighting.
Mixing things up is something everyone would like. When you have techno/futuristic stories use the "new map". When you have eco-friendly stories shoot their intro behind a desk in the park. For urban stories give their intro while walking in Manhattan.
Keep the old map.
Good day.
We are moving beyond just Earth coverage as well so maybe a space picture.
Great show.
A found constancy in the
creativity which brings
to think that we are on
a good trend.
For Joanne :
"I would like to be a tear
to born in your eyes
to live on your cheek
and to die on your lips "
;)
S.
more than an appropriate amount of rocketboom content has been coming straight off the youtube home page and other site's 'featured' and 'most popular' sections lately. it might seem like this is a recipe for growth (popular videos elsewhere = popular video here) but it doesn't work that way.
creative commons aside, ya gotta do something interesting with this stuff, drew -- you can't just eat it and vomit it back up. that doesn't move things forward.
when rocketboom is doing it right, youtube, digg and other sites will be pointing people at you instead of the other way around. and that's the way to grow your audience.
i don't think having a pretty girl giving out links to the youtube home page is the greatest concept ever for a show, but if the videos were a bit underground or (gasp) part of a greater theme it would help.
maybe make it easier/more apparent/rewarded for viewers to recommend stories? a 'paste a non-obvious youtube/google vid link here' button?
http://pouringdown.tv/?p=24
This might account for Joanne getting the date wrong and for her bang-less hairstyle.
Hmmmm...
Another great show, you worry to much. Your beautiful, funny, smart, that's all I care about. I'd still watch the show even if there was no map, no desk, just as long as there was plenty of Joanne Colan. Oh that reminds me ,luv the way you did your hair today, very sharp. Can't wait for your next show pretty lady.
Even so, you know your content could be more exciting when the big buzz in the peanut gallery is about the map.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=jzNuF2QD-mI
That would be just the thing.
MOSAIC MAP...who's with me?
(but don't make it distracting)
Rocketboom = happy times
Ditch the Amanda Map.
Have a background that says: RocketBoom! IE Rockets, Moon etc.
The old map looks like your shoting out of someones living room.
Ditch the desk and just sit on a bar stool.
or present the 'News' like the weather.
As for the map, the older one featured in todays show is best. I vote for keeping it simple and using it, just like the BBC would. Unless you want to go for my mosaic idea...?
infact seems like all the news outlets say it was cat. 3 when it made landfall, so what makes you think it was a category 2, tim???
also, the "mechanical failure" of the levees WAS in fact due, at least IN PART to the heavy storm surge caused by the heavy storm.
Just keep Joanne... and the accent...
Who cares? Far too much attention has been paid to the background. Just look after what's happening in the foreground.
'Scrap the map'
now repeat this 1000 times.
I liked the new map. gave a little more contemporary edge. the map dressed the show better with the school teacher look of Amanda. I was quite dissapointed when I saw it was back, because it looked so well with the new. oh well, Joanne's new hairdye was scary enough on top of it.
Keep the old map. Its a good non-intrusive background and real map too. The new map (not really a map) was just bad. Love the show and you too. Thanks