April 2009
8 posts
Welcome Aboard Rocketboom Anchor Caitlin Hill
Thank you Caitlin!!!
Ban on Comic Sans
There is an interesting article today on Comic Sans, the typically unlovely font that you have no doubt seen before. People are pulling together to ban it. There are flickr pools, T-shirts, myspace groups (do people still use myspace?) and petitions.
We recently caught the famous font designer Vincent Connare on tape at this year’s NYC ROFLcon:
Joanne
Today I am so sad to say farewell to Joanne from Rocketboom! Joanne was really, really excellent at what she did here, she will be missed. Keep your eyes open for announcements from Joanne on what’s next for her! And stay tuned for more from Rocketboom…
Intel & Rocketboom Team up for 'Rocketboom Tech'
I just wrote about our Know Your Meme series and how the show has worked as a spin-off. It took a long time for the branch off to happen.
Another obvious branch that we have been thinking about for a long time is “Rocketboom Tech”. The Rocketboom news is filled with tech-related stories and a large portion of our audience is tech minded.
When we were speaking with Intel about some of...
Proof that the medium is the message
Rocketboom Nominated For Webby Award!
Rocketboom was nominated for a Webby! Rocketboom has been nominated by the Webby’s in the past, as well as for the Vloggies and the Streamy’s. This is a bitter sweet recognition; I relate a lot to Woody Allen on this kind of a thing because we are not in it to compete. We are driven and love what we do but nevertheless this kind of acknowledgment feels great. So Thank you!
Congrats...
10 Entrepreneurial Concepts to Live By
This is a post I created awhile back which outlines ten major concepts I live and work by. This may seem pedestrian to some though I think it’s a good foundation for conducting entrepreneurial business activity on the internet:
1. Always work with people who are better than you. You can only do a few things really well. One of them should be understanding your weaknesses and looking for the...
Know Your Meme Spin-Off
I’ve been talking a lot recently about how Rocketboom is growing in a way that is different then the shows around us. You may have heard me say, some of our colleagues have leveraged the popularity of their shows to gain investment to build a network of many shows, so on and so forth, and you may have heard me point out that there are almost no examples of a “second” show doing...