Rocketboom goes dark? If you are not a nerd or BlogEntrepreneur – YAWN!

The nerds in my blogroll have lost their queen nerd today. Oh it is already like little school girls at TechMeme, except they are grown men with laptops, crooning over a lame Queen. Go read all the links if you would like to bore yourself. I did so trust me – don’t!

If you are entering the business of blogging take this as a great lesson.

Unless it is a BAD hoax for creating more buzz, Amanada and Andrew never PLANNED ON SUCCESS. That is how new this industry of blogging is – everyone expects to putter along.

It is exciting to have a low cost internet homerun as Rocketboom seemed to have, but the dark side is – what real value is there in the blogosphere? It is unlikely the domain, but the editors and talent behind the scene.

I think they call it “The Bus Test” in the business world. If the owner steps in front of a bus – what happens? Amanada has a window of opportunity. Rocketboom’s window is shutting as you read this…

I am calling Blair right now and buying keyman on his lending business!

UPDATE – The nerds think she is a hot commodity because of her alexa ranking. Proof of the echo chamber. This woman is not very talented. She has no interview or acting skills, just vlogging skills. A great timer if you will. The networks are more than 3 minute videoblogs and that would be a disaster for everyone but her.

Posted on July 5th, 2006 | Category: General | Comments
  • This is an excellent take, Howard. We'll see what happens to Amanda, but whether you like her or not, you've got to give it up to her ability to sell that Rocketboom brand - online and off.

    We'll see if that's her schtick, or she actually does have some talent... I guess.

    And there are plenty of vlogs with more attractive girls that are less popular. It's a "thing" - on Rocketboom, she had it.
  • Thx for tuning in Candice
  • That's good, actually. I'm way too prone to getting into silly fights on the network lately.

    I'm actually here to read the markets stuff, while I can't partake is still interesting.
  • Did you see her offer from Calcanis??? Damn! She's landing on her feet one way or the other. I think Rocketboom is destined to land on it's arse over this. Unless they have really good writers and producers behind the scenes an luck into a good replacement.

    This is a good study of brand vs personality though.
  • Howard Lindzon
    no fights darn. thanks for coming by
  • The nerds think she's a hot commodity because they don't see enough girls. They also have different standards of 'hot chick' than normal people.

    (Hopefully I won't get into any silly internet fights over here with that.)
  • Minic
    One mistake for Andrew Baron was to build Rocketboom around Amanda Congdon.
  • Minic
    She is an actress pretending to be a vlogger
  • Rocket who? Yawn indeed! :-)
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