{"id":421,"date":"2006-07-12T22:34:16","date_gmt":"2006-07-13T02:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/07\/12\/rocketboom-is-back-with-a-bang\/"},"modified":"2006-07-12T22:34:16","modified_gmt":"2006-07-13T02:34:16","slug":"rocketboom-is-back-with-a-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/07\/12\/rocketboom-is-back-with-a-bang\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocketboom is back with a bang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like my fellow Rocketboom soap-opera fan <a href=\"http:\/\/evans.blogware.com\/blog\/_archives\/2006\/7\/12\/2108876.html\">Mark Evans<\/a>, I too am glad to see the video-blog-cast back after the turmoil of the past couple of weeks surrounding the departure of host Amanda Congdon. It&#8217;s too bad that Andrew Baron and the Rocketboom team couldn&#8217;t make their self-imposed deadline of Monday, but I guess that&#8217;s showbiz.<\/p>\n<p>I thought Andrew and new host <a href=\"http:\/\/joannecolan.net\/\">Joanne Colan<\/a> did a nice job of handling the changeover, making light of the storm in the blogosphere by having Joanne show up in a catcher&#8217;s mask and have tomatoes thrown at her. And I thought she did a great show, with some light-hearted street interview and even some Spanish thrown in just for fun. I will lapse into sexism just for a moment to say that Joanne is easy on the eyes, as they say, and as Mark points out the British accent doesn&#8217;t hurt either. All in all, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocketboom.com\">a nice comeback<\/a> after all that has happened. <\/p>\n<p>And in case all the back-and-forth of the past couple of weeks isn&#8217;t enough for you, Jeff Jarvis has given his blog over to a guest post from a music exec with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzmachine.com\/index.php\/2006\/07\/12\/guest-post-advice-for-rocketboom-from-a-pro\/\">some advice<\/a> for the Rocketboom gang. And a CNet interview with Amanda shows that there is still a ton of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2008-1025_3-6093051.html\">bad blood<\/a> between the two sides &#8212; with Amanda continuing to say she was pushed out, and that Andrew wanted to strip her of any duties apart from hosting. In other words, sounds like there&#8217;s still plenty of work left for the lawyers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like my fellow Rocketboom soap-opera fan Mark Evans, I too am glad to see the video-blog-cast back after the turmoil of the past couple of weeks surrounding the departure of host Amanda Congdon. It&#8217;s too bad that Andrew Baron and the Rocketboom team couldn&#8217;t make their self-imposed deadline of Monday, but I guess that&#8217;s showbiz. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/07\/12\/rocketboom-is-back-with-a-bang\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rocketboom is back with a bang&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}