http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/ Engadget Comments for The Clicker: Boom goes the Rocket http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/Might have to check it out though... Is it ipod vid format available? I really feel to lazy to convert right now...

BUt sounds cool. Thanks engadget, now I must check it out.]]>Jul 6th 2006 9:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/Jul 6th 2006 9:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/Jul 6th 2006 9:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/Jul 6th 2006 9:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/Jul 6th 2006 10:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/
Agh! That's "reins."]]>Dec 25th 2006 11:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/Jul 6th 2006 10:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/
But anyway, I see little difference between the talent vs. management debates in video blogs and more traditional outlets. Rocketboom can no more afford to lose Amanda Congdon than the Tonight Show (a.k.a. "Leno") or Late Night (a.k.a. "Conan") can afford to lose Jay Leno or Conan O'Brian. The only difference is that Leno and O'Brian are under contract which, I assume, Congdon was not.]]>Jul 6th 2006 10:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/Jul 6th 2006 10:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/
So it's really not a big loss, regardless of the internal conflicts.
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You can't go around changing the host of the Tonight Show.
You'd better hope Johnny Carson lives forever, though.]]>Jul 6th 2006 11:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/
I do have to give my hats off to them for generating that size of audience, but I think some of it was them just coming out of the box first and some people saying they liked it just because they thought it was cool to say so. I certainly will not miss it...]]>Jul 6th 2006 11:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/Jul 7th 2006 12:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/Jul 7th 2006 12:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/Jul 7th 2006 12:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/
]]>Jul 7th 2006 1:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/You'd better hope Johnny Carson lives forever, though."

Haha! Good point.=) Of course, Carson gracefully bowed out and passed the torch on to his successor/long time stand in. The question raised by the post, I thought, was more along the lines of what happens when the personality behind the show/blog moves elsewhere such as when Letterman jumped ship to CBS. Letterman took all of his viewers with him leaving Conan to essentially start from scratch and make his own audience.]]>Jul 7th 2006 1:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/]]>Jul 7th 2006 1:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/
Sarah Lane, on the other hand, I'd TiVo in a minute. She wasn't necessarily better looking, but wow, she was just an incredibly TV personality.

Sounds like Congdon is shooting herself in the foot.]]>Jul 7th 2006 2:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/
Tip for professional writers: The little $ symbol means you don't have to also write the word "dollars," and this is an excellent example of the reason bloggers still aren't taken seriously.]]>Jul 7th 2006 5:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/Jul 7th 2006 6:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/
What I see here is inflated egos, dirty laundry washed in public and a seriously deluded group of 20 somethings thinking they're Hollywood stars. In fact, Jason Calacanis, the owner of the network Engadget is hosted on does just that, offering to the woman who got fired a job, and I quote "You're a star baby... it's time to be treated like one" and "hit me if you're interested". Talk about an exaggerated opinion of your own importance... An absolute joke. ]]>Jul 7th 2006 7:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/Jul 7th 2006 8:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/And her neck is to long...]]>Jul 7th 2006 8:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/
Does anyone wear britches anymore?]]>Jul 7th 2006 9:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/
Anyway, it seems like a lot of people don't know what Rocketboom.

Rocketboom basically was the first big video blog (aka vlog). Amanda talked about any news, gadgets, just about anything and she made it funny.

There is even a fund lauch party for her..
http://www.fundable.org/groupactions/UnBoomedLaunchParty


I also do video blogs.. check it..

Nick Schmidt
http://lastlapnick.blogspot.com]]>Jul 7th 2006 10:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/Jul 7th 2006 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/http://www.officepirates.com/officepirates/fyi/0,26102,1210555,00.html
(Scroll down to see the video of the hot replacement for Amanda.)]]>Jul 7th 2006 11:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/Jul 7th 2006 12:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/
As for C/Net on TiVo, I find those segments terrible. TiVo would have been wiser to ask Leo Laporte and the rest of the ex-TechTV staff to do such programming for them. Martin Sargent would have killed by adding his extra $0.02 to every segment. Then again, perhaps TiVo is being paid for such placements.

To the folks suggesting Sarah Lane was better than Amanda, apparently judging from her work doing "The Feed" on *Attack of the Show*, I must suggest that ya'll are crazy AND blind. Lane did not do well on her own, and it was yet another example of the stupidity of G4 not to add a second anchor to do "The Feed" with her to balance her out. But I digress... ]]>Jul 7th 2006 12:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/Jul 7th 2006 1:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/
"10 parts really tight sweaters" - priceless!
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http://www.thejokeproject.com]]>Jul 7th 2006 3:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/http://www.vidocity.com]]>Jul 7th 2006 5:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/
Not to flame with you but…. How exactly do you enjoy watching Amanda and hate her politics at the same time? I’m sorry but that doesn’t make sense? Either you hate the show, or you like the show? Which means, the only reason you watch “Rocketboom”, is just to see Amanda Congdon. That’s fine, and that’s totally your choice, but wanting someone to have talent -- doesn’t make it so. She’s still boring.

“The Feed” is only 5 minutes long, so why would anyone have 2 hosts on a 5-minute tech segment. On the “OLD” AOTS – there were 3 host, of with Sarah Lane was one them. I’m sorry to tell you, that Sarah Lane is a better spokeswoman, than Amanda will EVER be. It takes more than a little “hair flicking” to hold people’s attention for an hour.
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What part of "tight sweaters" did you not understand?]]>Jul 8th 2006 3:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/
Scrolling through the comments here really drives home the impression that most of you are jaded, shallow and critical people who seem to prefer to stay in your houses and troll the net making critical comments about anything and everything to make yourself feel better.

Sure I'm a fan of Rocketboom - rather was, a fan. But this is not about simply disliking something. I'm addressing the overall lack of maturity and intelligence presented in the comments. I've watched it for a number of reasons: it's funny informative and creative. Amanda is attractive, sure. But so what? You might not care for it. That's fine. But to sum it up with simple-minded comments about someone's physical appearance after watching one or two episodes? Come on people! How old are all of you? I haven't heard crap like this since I was in high school. I guess you either are in high school, or simply never chose to mature beyond it.

I really don't care if some of you want to flame me. Just know that I'm not interested in your opinions anyway so will unlikely return to any of the comments section. I'm simply above it. And you.
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Sounds like Andrew Baron himself. I wouldn't put it past you (or your pals) to troll engadget so as to be overly critical of the feedback, but alas, I agree with most here too.

This show is just morbidly dry to the bone. It seems a fluke that so many every payed any attention to the show. And now, it's over.

Oh, and just so I fit your demographic blanket, I heard Andrew Baron on TWiT and he has to have the gay'est country boy accent I've ever heard... and annoying too. Yap, yap, yap, that's all he does.]]>Jul 9th 2006 11:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/06/the-clicker-boom-goes-the-rocket/Jul 10th 2006 7:03PM