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Re: Amanda “unBoomed”?

Christopher Coulter — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 17:56:42 -0000

Everyone’s talking about hiring Amanda, but Robert you should hire Karim at PodTech.net. He’s hilarious.

Another vote for Karim. If he joins, mark me down too.

Re: Amanda “unBoomed”?

Brangelina — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 13:51:43 -0000

Watching all of this has been more fun than the Jen/Brangelina triangle I've covered over the past year.

...Hmm, Since Mr. and Mrs. Smith was the cause of Brad and Jen breaking up, I'm putting my money on Scoble as being the cause of Rocket-unboomed.

It all started with that Rocketboom interview Amanda did with Scoble about his departure from Microsoft. You could see it in their eyes. I'm telling you, she's destined for PodTech.

Re: Amanda “unBoomed”?

Robert Scoble — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 12:58:40 -0000

Karim, funny, I'm reading your words on a new MacBook Pro too. But my excuse is that it's Maryam's. Heheh.

Re: Amanda “unBoomed”?

Karim — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 12:28:40 -0000

Christopher: LOL

Nab: Thanks... you are too kind, putting crazy ideas in Scoble's head...

Scoble: After I got done laughing, I started considering the idea. Part of me thought, "I can't get involved... I've got work to do. It's not that I like the Empire; I hate it. But there's nothing I can do about it right now. And Alderaan is such a long way from here. Er, I mean California...."

Which of course was followed by the wise old voice in my head saying, "That's your uncle talking."

I suppose the next step would be for me to come back from Starbucks to find the charred corpses of my only remaining relatives just outside the smouldering remains of my apartment. "Aunt Beru? Uncle Owen? Aunt -- OH."

And to top it all off, I'm typing this on a Mac. What's happening to meeee...

Apparently it's like, National Crazy Idea Week or something. But I'll put your phone number in my mobile and think about it... :-)

Re: Amanda “unBoomed”?

Linh760Li — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 11:29:26 -0000

she is funny :D

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Re: Amanda “unBoomed”?

Matt — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 08:57:31 -0000

Yup - dirty laundry is dirty laundry... even if it is meant the clear the air, people will always remember your dirty laundry.

Amanda would be GREAT on a reality television show - those are basically just produced versions of dirty laundry, which is so far what the unboomed blog is as well.

Re: Amanda “unBoomed”?

range — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 08:54:54 -0000

You know what, if she owned 49% of Rocketboom like she said she did, she should have just gone the legal way and made sure to reaffirm her position on this. She should have issued a reserved press release, not a personal letter with refutations incldued by her. It doesn't look professional and makes me think that there probably is a lot more going on that will ever be revealed.

Re: Amanda “unBoomed”?

Angel — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 06:45:04 -0000

That's a good point Dennis.....Future employers are watching how this plays out and it will always be in the back of their mind how she posted private communications on a blog for thousands of people to read. I understand her desire not to be the bad guy, but I'm not sure posting that letter was the wisest thing to do.

Re: Amanda “unBoomed”?

Michiel — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 05:52:18 -0000

Mudslinging and fighting in public is always a distasteful affair, and as a disinterested onlooker (rocketboom? who cares?) I can only say that there are at least two sides to every story and the truth is usually somewhere in the middle.

ps. Did you really expect anything else from Digg? It's full of 12-16 year olds.

Re: Amanda “unBoomed”?

Robert Scoble — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 02:57:40 -0000

Nab: that's the best idea I've seen in this thread! Karim is, indeed, hillarious! Hey, Karim, you interested?

Re: Amanda “unBoomed”?

Nab — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 02:49:43 -0000

Everyone's talking about hiring Amanda, but Robert you should hire Karim at PodTech.net. He's hilarious.

Re: Amanda “unBoomed”?

Christopher Coulter — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 02:47:19 -0000

what I really want to do is DIRECT

Well the best DGA types are also WGA types, imho. Just no “film by” credit or the WGAw will REALLY take you out back and shoot you. ;)

If Fox News covered it, Amanda-style...

CUT TO:

INT. PODCAST DAILY NEWSROOM STUDIO - DAY

A NEWS ANCHOR, decked up in an impeccably slick $1000 suit and tie, is shuffling papers, acting hurried, very stern looking. Plastic bass-beat breaking news music in background, collects papers together and looks to the camera...

NEWS ANCHOR:
Breaking news. This just in. Stand by for a live feed.

REPORTER:
(decked up in neon greenish pink outfit, chewing gum)
Whoa, the red light is on, like ok, like wait, cantyouseeimbusy. [20 second pause] Ok, so, like, yeah, like see, this Amanda, like wants to like, goto LA and become a movieeee star, so like, she, like, totally, like bailed, like on camera. And that other dude something, like doesn't like LA, like gag me with, like, a spoon, like I mean, no duh. But, like, Amanda don't, like, have, like no no job. So might not, like, be in, like LA, like bummer. But like a buncha blog total dweebos want like Amanda for, like, their, like nerd stuffs, like totally gaggy tubular. Like, gag...

Re: Amanda “unBoomed”?

anon — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 02:28:44 -0000

The more I read the first-party letters, the uglier it looks. The timing for this unraveling is no coincidence. Sometimes transparency is a self-inflicted gunshut wound.

Re: Amanda “unBoomed”?

range — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 01:25:40 -0000

I like Amanda, she has a certain je ne sais quoi when she delivers the news. RB definitely needed her more than she did. Just look at last week's vlogs, I watched a few of them, but they were missing something.

Re: Amanda “unBoomed”?

Dmad — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 23:23:30 -0000

#9 As homer simpson would say: "Hey, how 'bout that?" Well, at least they get as many viewers as MSNBC. I'd be curious to know the demographics of those "viewers". I.e, do they have any money to spend, or are they wankers in their basement watching "charismatic" hosts?

So, she was on CSI, huh? I would submit that 99.995% CSI viewers on that episode had no idea who she was, and likely thought her just some two-bit struggling actress that got a minor break.

You example is like saying Phil Hendrie got his gig on a summer replacement show because he was a popular radio host.

Re: Amanda “unBoomed”?

Dmad — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 23:18:51 -0000

#38 You can't excuse it by "being the nature of linen". Surely you looked in a mirror before going on camera. That was a rather lame explanation. I agree with Angel,the outfit was distracting from the message. Take a hint.

Re: Amanda “unBoomed”?

dagboi — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 23:10:46 -0000

Amanda posts some recent correspondence between her and Barron on her blog--her take on what has transpired:

http://digg.com/tech_news/A...

Re: Amanda “unBoomed”?

Karim — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 22:56:28 -0000

Thanks for the update, mario.

It's still not making complete sense. Why would Andrew agree to move the show to LA, then change his mind? Why does Andrew's letter read like a goodbye, yet Amanda says "you fired me?" Why does Andrew say that Amanda said she was moving next week, when Amanda says she can't move because she doesn't have a job? Should the issue go before the United Nations Security Council? And just who was the bug in Chuck Olson's photoessay, anyway?

SPOCK: Sensors are picking up undergarments with traces of fecal matter.

MCCOY: You mean they're airing dirty laundry.

SPOCK: I believe that is what I just said, Doctor.

Re: Amanda “unBoomed”?

Matt — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 22:43:32 -0000

Damnit....UPDATE #6 came in as I was writing that.... and it clearly shows that they WERE thinking of going bicoastal.

Re: Amanda “unBoomed”?

Matt — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 22:40:09 -0000

Oh, and additionally:
I don't know if I buy the "she wanted to go to LA and I wanted to stay in NYC" story either. Andrew, and Amanda for that matter, are too smart not to have seen the HUGE opportunity to take Rocketboom bicoastal. Send Amanda to the west coast, have her send footage back east while pursuing whatever she's pursuing, run Rocketboom out of NYC headquarters, get a new east coast anchor and run stories from both sides of the country. This would be a GREAT format, and another first as far as I know.

That'd be the real new media.

Re: Amanda “unBoomed”?

mario — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 22:20:36 -0000

UPDATE #6

http://amandaunboomed.blogs...

Re: Amanda “unBoomed”?

Matt — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 22:07:42 -0000

What's funny about this whole thing is that the amount of speculation surrounding the news would have been the same if it were the news media covering the story instead of the blogosphere.

There's no such thing as facts anymore.

Everyone always says "There's two sides to every story... and then there's what really happened." It used to be that journalism was about that third part there... but now, I'd prefer to read blogs for because at least I enter into it expecting people's opinions.

Re: Amanda “unBoomed”?

Karim — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 21:56:07 -0000

*blush* Thanks for the compliment...

I thought WGAw would take you out back and shoot you for abusing stage directions the way I do? No? Hmmmm...

It does come in handy at times. Sure, "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players" -- but what I really want to do is DIRECT. ;-)

Re: Amanda “unBoomed”?

Christopher Coulter — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 20:37:56 -0000

Dang, Karim...classic lines there, nice style. You a LA WGAite type?

I should start snarking in screenplayese...

Re: Amanda “unBoomed”?

Karim — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 19:04:31 -0000

"Angel" wrote:

"...it also irritates me when I’m watching a video podcast of a woman (the latest vid that Cali Lewis posted) who is wearing a shirt that is practically see-thru and clearly shows her bra."

Nice ploy to drive traffic to your web site, Angel . LOL Oh sure you signed your message as "Angel" and not "Cali Lewis," but we can see right through you. (Or at least your shirt.)