Oh yeah...I forgot that part....echoes from the archive... ROCKETBOOM SUCKS.
Now that should be on the tshirt....i'd buy that for a dollar. On 13/10/05 1:18 AM, "andrew michael baron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Flatterer!! Thanks for the nice words, really. Even after a year > though, RB still sucks, I think. > > On Oct 12, 2005, at 11:13 AM, Mat Wall-Smith wrote: > >> Probably misunderstanding as I was lazy in not explaining completely. >> RB is innovative in format, content, production...etc. But there is a >> subtlety and depth to that innovation - you write with the medium >> and it >> never seems the other way round. I didn't really mean 'follows' in >> terms of >> your intent. Having watched the show from the very early days I >> know that >> this has never been your modus operandi. I would still suggest that >> the >> shows potential lies in the fact that the format plays on/off a >> mode that >> most viewers will recognize and feel comfortable with - so my >> interpretation >> is not that you pander to some normative standard but that the >> viewer will >> most likely adopt a format that they feel some familiarity with, >> and perhaps >> this also evokes a kind of confidence in the RB voice as well. The >> fact that >> RB play so intelligently off that format is (in my opinion) what >> makes it >> work so well....it marks video blogging as a departure from the >> normative.. >> >> I hope this makes sense as I really did not intend to diss the RB >> team. >> I've RB in both writing and production classes and see it as an >> important >> innovator in the 'field'.....this seems like a paradox but I don't >> think it >> is.. >> >> >> >> >> On 13/10/05 12:32 AM, "andrew michael baron" >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> >>> On Oct 12, 2005, at 8:33 AM, Mat Wall-Smith wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Rocketboom . . . follows the 'theory of minimum innovation'- >>>> >>> >>> I could easily be offended by this part but maybe you don't >>> understand what we have been up to or maybe I am misunderstanding >>> your angle. Either way, no biggie, just couldn't let that one slip >>> by. Even if you would argue that we are not innovative, as a matter >>> of fact we are not following a theory of minimum innovation. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Yahoo! Groups Links >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -------------------- >> ~--> >> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! >> http://us.click.yahoo.com/T8sf5C/tzNLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ~-> >> >> >> Yahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/cd_AJB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
