Wisdom of the Crowd vs. Curator

I got a chance to ask Drew Curtis of Fark a ton of questions. I’ll try to get more of...

Jake & Amir at NYC Video Meetup

I’m very happy to announce that this month’s NYC video meet-up will host special...

Tron Guy at ROFLcon on Rocketboom

 Jay Maynard the Tron Guy at the ROFLcon conference, MIT. The classic tron costume page that led...

Podshow < Mevio

Podshow changes it’s name to Mevio, not Meivo. I’ve always been disenchanted with this...

TRUST

Rocketboom Production Process Explained

  This Tuesday the free NYC Videoblogging Meetup (which I just noticed is the largest...

Video of Twitter Madness

Understanding Flickr Video

Several people are reporting about the new Flickr video, but no one has quite articulated how to use...

Michelle Ma Bell

The Beatles performed correctly by Dictionary audio pronunciations. See also my fave, Martha My...

Jake & Amir

Have you seen Jake and Amir? It’s a comedy series with character development comprised of short...

Veronica Belmont Has Been Freed!

World rejoice, Veronica Belmont is no longer behind bars in the Mahalo offices of Jason Calacanis....

The Rick Roll Has Only Just Begun

Re: After YouTube turned every single one of its home page video links into hiddenRick Astley...

Yahoo 9 Ends Run

Whew, no offense to anyone there, but Yahoo 9 was really the worst online video show I have ever...

The White House during Earth Hour.

Rocketboom Ranked A Fastest Growing...

Rocketboom makes the Compete list for Fastest Growing Video Startups - 02/07 to 02/08.    And my oh...

YouTube Streams

A heafty new feature from YouTube that has just been released with out a press release (according to...

More Than A Formula

Like platforms, content needs more than just a formula to work. Perhaps this wasn’t always the...

Wallstripper

A few recent poster frames from the Wallstrip show by CBS. Ever since Lindsay left, episodes are no...

Street Art At It’s Best

A picnic in an outfit! -rocketboom.blog

Bar Camp NYC This Weekend

This Saturday I’ll be at BarCamp NYC (it’s also on Sunday). Session title: A day in the...

tumblr Meetup 2: Electric Boogaloo

sharingtime: It’s that time again. If you missed our last meetup, here’s your chance to finally...

Wikipedia Entries

I just deleted my Wikipedia entry. Some people have “interests” that look after their...

SXSWi Kick

I’m back in my hometown, Austin, Texas for SXSW, here is a rundown of what’s up:Most of...

Happy Leap Year! February 29th Lives!

Alea mater, etc. 

Quarterlife Creator Missed Online and...

After crashing and burning pretty bad online, Quarterlife received last place in ratings for...

Sarah Meyers Launches Pop17

Congrats to Sarah Meyers for her new show Pop17 which launched today. The show is a “a daily...

The Guardian: Stars in Your Lap

Great article on Rocketboom with Joanne, Alex Albrecht of Diggnation, Xeni Jardin and Mark...

WWW With An Additional W

“Among the youngest Internet users, the primary creators of Web content (blogs, graphics,...

Anonymous Protests

Protests against The Church of Scientology were held by Anonymous at 11am this morning in cities and...

dtybywl>hudsonstream>todomaru

Global Internet Disruption? Easy

For the last several days I’ve been researching the main internet sub cables wondering what...

Twitter Down Art Collection

Alot of people are talking about Twitter being down. I have recently called for Twitter to...

The Reblog Button

jimmy wales & ellie at Rocketboom (via yatta) — jamiew...

Circle ‘Round The Sun

Crisis in Kenya

I spent some time today reading through several Kenyan blogs on the election crisis and have added...

NYC Videoblogging Meet-Up

On Thursday, January 24th from 6pm to 8pm sharp, we will meet at the Rocketboom studios for...

Sun, Sun, Sun, Here it Comes

My voice here on Dembot has recently been pretty disparaging and desolate, I must say. It seems...

Tay Zonday U.S. Tour?

Neato, it looks like Tay Zonday may be headed out on tour soon. I checked his website...

US President George W. Bush leans over to talk with a girl (R) after participating in a lesson for...

NBC On It's Way to Becoming Smaller

According to FT, NBC’s Jeff Zucker is making big changes at the TV studio including getting...

The Big Range Austin Dance Festival is being put on in June by my good friend Ellen Bartel. Before...

New Revision3 Show Faulty

I just wrote a long email to the Revision3 folks to tell them privately the extent of my feelings...

Joost Bytes Dust?

I’m glad Mathew Ingram came out and said it. When I heard the news this week about the shake...

Lorelai on speed

A lot of TV shows when run in syndication are sped up slightly and voices pitch corrected to sound...

How to Kill Twitter, Facebook, Myspace...

Ive been drinking espresso shots from Starbucks. Seriously though, they are desired as platforms -...

Gizmodogate

Reblogged from Yatta for RB: Richard Blakeley and Joanne in Madison Park. Richard is the infamous...

How To Keep Twitter from Crashing in a...

Use Tumblr! :P Seriously though, this is important. The answer is to make Twitter a noun. This is...

'Just got off the phone with Podtech -...

Oh Lordie. So Robert Scoble announced that he would announce announcing his move to Fast Company...

How to kick-start TV over IP

I originally posted this article exactly one month ago and today it seems to finally be a...

English 1050 - Thought & Writing

Google alert! Today we got hit with another school assignment. We usually show up at the beginning...

Twitter is Dead, Weep!

I am SO sorry for writing this, I L-O-V-E Twitter. Love it! I’m just so sorry to say, Tumblr...

^^^^above=new-------below=old

The ROCKETBOOM Tumblr Blog is kicking so I’ll be pointing to the whimsical kind of stuff...

Free Air Guitars Placed Around City

CES vs. Macworld

From a year ago today. In retrospect, I think more people are feeling the CES burn this year than...

Hands Free Spring-Arm

Black Friday at ABC Studios as writers erased...

Virtual Artists Seeking to Raise $30M

YouTube Glasses — pho — rocketboom

Funny Shirt.Woot design — tucker — rocketboom

Buy a flying car on eBay — dalasverdugo

24 Polaroid

FFFFOUND! — gkojaxlabo

Pav — haze

Evolution of the TiVo Subscriber

Read into this what you will (Thanks for the screenshot, George!)

The [mini] debate about the worth of...

Tata Nano: The Worlds Cheapest Car priced at $2500 new

TV-B-Gone at CES = TVs Gone at CES

Trent Reznor: Why won't people pay $5?

There is an update to my last post on Trent Reznor’s online record sales experiment: He...

The Top Two Ways To Protect Your Video...

I think (I hope!) I’ve done a pretty good job at protecting the copyrights of the video...

Stay Away from Online Video for Henry

I was EXTREMELY surprised that Henry Bodget now has his own online video show. From...

Katrina Victim Sues U.S. for $3 Quadrillion

Number of Women at Video Sites Doubles

TiVo to open up to all RSS Feeds,...

Podcasting News reports, ”The new feature, announced Monday at the International Consumer...

Ogilvy to Layoff

Don’t get me started on the problems media buyers have to face for being in major...

2008 Presidential Candidates Net Worth-Wealth Graph “A...

A very simple yet acurate guide on what Video Game System is...

Simple Representations of the Complex

A great video was posted on the evolution of Techmeme over time.   We were talking in the studio...

The Never Ending Data Storage Problem

A big discussion on the adoption of the new Blu Ray Disc format is happening with Time Warner now on...

Replaced, Not Erased

2008: The Year of Decentralization or a change in Terms for Profile Data? Robert Scoble brings up a...

Nine Inch Nails Pay-or-Free Online Album...

Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails gave away an album online for free and asked that people pay $5 for...

New Rocketboom Blog on Tumblr

http://rocketboom.tumblr.com

I'm Loving Tumblr

“Just wanted to say how much I’m loving Tumblr and tumbling. I think I’ve got it...

Misunderstanding the Value in Online...

  The issue on Perez Hilton: Perez only made $5000 from 25 Million video views. People are saying...

The Guardian: Strike hiatus prompts Hollywod...

YouTube Announces Top Videos of 2007

 SAN BRUNO, CA—(Marketwire - December 27, 2007) - YouTube, the leading online video community...

“Close to 40 percent (38%) of Americans are watching TV shows...”
— More Americans Creating...

Next President of U.S. TBD Next Week?

  For any pollsters out there, let the politick begin. It’s just a week away from the first...

Why Twitter? 10 Reasons

   If don’t you use Twitter, this post by Dan York really articulates why it’s so...

Pitfalls of Flash Advertising

Andy Plesser over at Beet.TV posted a short interview with me on the need for other kinds of...

First NFL Game on Three TV Networks at...

I found out today via Shelly Palmer that an upcoming Football game will be broadcast on three...

1957 First Televised Christmas Address:...

 

Dembot Archives at Dembot.NET

All this season greeting stuff is giving me time to do some spring cleaning. Now all of my...

Flickr

Ive been out of Flickr photo space for a couple of months with that big “Pro Account...

Studies in Demographics

Googling for Your Grade

Congrats to Jamie (Rocketboom Tech Dev) for this awesome write-up in Time. Jamie teaches a class...

8 Reasons Why The TV Studios Will Die

Recently, I have met with many people including top executives from most of the largest studios as...

911: Twitter is Not Dangerous

This is a really funny article. The claim is that Twitter is dangerous because people at work...

Ad:tech Awards

I’ll be one of the judges the 2008 Ad:Tech Awards: ad:tech 11th Annual Awards - Interactive...

Denied by Forbes

Forbes: “Rocketboom, an irreverent daily video blog that ran from October 2004 to June 2006....

Holiday Production Mandate for Online...

I got an email from Xeni over at BoingBoing the other day inquiring about holiday expectations for...

Revision3 aquired by C-Net?

Is it possible that I have found a breaking story that has not yet surfaced? There is no other...

John Edwards answers 10Questions!

Here is the question by Joe Niederberger on Net Neutrality: Here is the Answer by John...

w00t wins word of year!

How to kick-start TV over IP

The WSJ article The Internet. The TV., feels right-on. Why aren’t consumers buying into the...

Video Events This Week in NYC

The Web Video Summit is this week and on Monday Ill be speaking from from 5:30pm - 7pm on the...

Accurate Facebook Mini-Feed

This is a simulation of a future Facebook feed for a very popular person:

The Programmer Dress Code

1. grow a beard, 2. have long hair, and 3. dress like a slob. Bjarne Stroustrup - Brought us...

Writer for Colbert Report Frank Lesser

*note this is not a part of the above post.

Go Speed! First Movie Pics

Vote w00t

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A Flop? Must Read Story on the numbers...

This story was under-seen but its a big one: Newteevee rounded up the public figures for...

TeXtra’s Natali Del Conte Leaves Podshow...

Congrats to Natali Del Conte for making a move from Podshow to CNET TV and moving to New...

Emergency Broadcast Singing

Emergency Broadcast Test Music (more).

Deep in the Forests of Russia

Facebook Headlines: Loss, Lied,...

Take a look at these headlines today on Sunday: “Well Deserved Court Loss”,...

Allegory of the Continents

Need a Header

Anyone have any good ideas for a Dembot Headder/logo?

Michal Tatarkiewicz's Subway Drawings

Anderson Cooper's Mea Culpa Editing...

In this short 36 second video, Anderson Cooper appears to be using his medium well for coming right...