Comments on: Where will Amanda Go? http://gigaom.com/2006/07/05/where-will-amanda-go/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:48:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: The (Rocket) Boom heard ’round the net | Tech PR Gems http://gigaom.com/2006/07/05/where-will-amanda-go/#comment-119788 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:21:06 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/07/05/where-will-amanda-go/#comment-119788 [...] my favorite sources:Amanda’s announcementProducer Andrew Michael Baron’s reactionScobleOm MalikB.L. OchmanDave [...]

]]> By: Can Live » Blog Archive » Dear Amanda, Will you work for me ? http://gigaom.com/2006/07/05/where-will-amanda-go/#comment-119787 Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:02:39 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/07/05/where-will-amanda-go/#comment-119787 [...] Om Malik suggests that Podtech must hire Amanda. Is Scoble already thinking on those lines [...]

]]> By: Drew Olanoff http://gigaom.com/2006/07/05/where-will-amanda-go/#comment-119786 Fri, 07 Jul 2006 12:19:34 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/07/05/where-will-amanda-go/#comment-119786 It’s a shame what happens when creativity talent money = drama. They’re both very talented and will do just fine.

]]> By: Dave http://gigaom.com/2006/07/05/where-will-amanda-go/#comment-119785 Fri, 07 Jul 2006 04:28:31 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/07/05/where-will-amanda-go/#comment-119785 Om,

I think you need to stop thinking with the little head and start thinking with your big head. Amanda was funny but there are alot of funny ppl. Lets face it. If she was not a tall, sexy blonde the show would never have been nearly as popular. It just goes to show you how superficial our culture and how hard up the propeller head set is for female attention.

-Dave

]]> By: Dennis Howlett http://gigaom.com/2006/07/05/where-will-amanda-go/#comment-119784 Thu, 06 Jul 2006 09:53:02 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/07/05/where-will-amanda-go/#comment-119784 I think you’re right on the vlog thing Om but I’d never employ someone who chooses to put an internal dispute into the public domain. It’s juvenile, egotistical and a guaranteed turn off to corporates who might be teetering on the edge of coming into this medium. Bad day for the biz.

]]> By: raj http://gigaom.com/2006/07/05/where-will-amanda-go/#comment-119783 Thu, 06 Jul 2006 04:59:41 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/07/05/where-will-amanda-go/#comment-119783 The mobuzz.com girl is overly emphatic and kind of annoying. Watch her muted, and you’ll see what I mean.

Amanda might have been cheesecake, but she was easier to take. I can’t see her not finding a new partner, even if she can’t use the name rocketboom. Boomrocket anyone? Ooops. It’s taken.

Vlog? Yuck, especially because it’s probably pronounced vlawg. What’s wrong with vodcast? You don’t see plog anywhere.

]]> By: Om Malik http://gigaom.com/2006/07/05/where-will-amanda-go/#comment-119782 Thu, 06 Jul 2006 04:41:10 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/07/05/where-will-amanda-go/#comment-119782 jeff,

clearly we all are thinking along the same lines. the damn group think. bah… need new friends.

]]> By: Om Malik http://gigaom.com/2006/07/05/where-will-amanda-go/#comment-119781 Thu, 06 Jul 2006 04:39:37 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/07/05/where-will-amanda-go/#comment-119781 well since everyone is calling it vlog, well lets go with it. we do get the general idea. not to nit pick!

]]> By: Daniel Spisak http://gigaom.com/2006/07/05/where-will-amanda-go/#comment-119780 Thu, 06 Jul 2006 04:05:12 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/07/05/where-will-amanda-go/#comment-119780 Valleywag claims this is about to get ugly?

As for the distinction between “vlog” or “video podcast” why dont we just call it “video”? Trying to coin a term as ugly sounding as vlog just smacks of trying to sound visionary.

Podtech would probably love to have Amanda working for them, but after having gone over Amanda’s resume on her personal website it seems to me that no matter what she does in the realm of podcasting, vloging, video podcasting or whatever Doctorow & Co. want to try coining this week is not going to have the kind of viewership she wants.

Lets be honest here, Rocketboom is hugely popular among the Web 2.0/podcasting savvy people and their friends. However, even with the kinds of numbers I seem to recall Andrew Barton tossing around on the This Week In Tech podcast he participated in those numbers would amount to statistical noise in viewership numbers for a popular television show.

As for Calcanis offering a opening for Amanda to work for AOL under the Netscape brand I think its a desparate grab by Calcanis to make folks at Cnet and elsewhere pay any attention to Netscape still. After all, Calcanis had to copy/mimic Digg 2.0 just to get Cnet to even bother mentioning the name Netscape in a story. Netscape would be a step up from Rocketboom in some ways, but would still severly limit Amanda’s potential to gain better visibility as personality that the average person on the street would recognize which I think is her reason for gravitating to Los Angeles.

]]> By: Jeff Clavier http://gigaom.com/2006/07/05/where-will-amanda-go/#comment-119779 Thu, 06 Jul 2006 01:48:11 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/07/05/where-will-amanda-go/#comment-119779 Re Podtech hiring Amanda, it sounds like that a few of us sent the same idea over to John…

]]> By: Anonymous http://gigaom.com/2006/07/05/where-will-amanda-go/#comment-119778 Thu, 06 Jul 2006 01:38:47 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/07/05/where-will-amanda-go/#comment-119778 I think I messed up the URL:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=“video podcast”, vlog, vodcast

]]> By: Anonymous http://gigaom.com/2006/07/05/where-will-amanda-go/#comment-119777 Thu, 06 Jul 2006 01:38:14 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/07/05/where-will-amanda-go/#comment-119777 Well John, apparently “video podcast” beats out “vlog” and “vodcast”.

]]> By: John http://gigaom.com/2006/07/05/where-will-amanda-go/#comment-119776 Wed, 05 Jul 2006 22:30:08 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/07/05/where-will-amanda-go/#comment-119776 Rocketboom is not a “video podcast”. Rocketboom is a Vlog.

]]> By: Vidizer http://gigaom.com/2006/07/05/where-will-amanda-go/#comment-119775 Wed, 05 Jul 2006 22:10:03 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/07/05/where-will-amanda-go/#comment-119775 I’ll definitely miss her … she added some “class” to the whole video podcasting thing.

You could tune to http://www.mobuzz.com – they got a girl by the name Karina Stenquist. She’s pretty entertaining in her own way.

]]> By: Om Malik http://gigaom.com/2006/07/05/where-will-amanda-go/#comment-119774 Wed, 05 Jul 2006 21:49:19 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/07/05/where-will-amanda-go/#comment-119774 jason

you so don’t want that. i know it is a visage that could scar generations – no even i cannot take that chance. ;-)

]]> By: Jason Schramm http://gigaom.com/2006/07/05/where-will-amanda-go/#comment-119773 Wed, 05 Jul 2006 20:55:19 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/07/05/where-will-amanda-go/#comment-119773 Such drama. Dress Om in a skimpy outfit and he can be the next host.

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