Sorry I haven’t posted one of these in a while, I fried my laptop drive, and I can never find time to write them in the office.
With that out of the way, I would like to thank “Skip” Lawrence for introducing me to this week’s website recommendation, rocketboom.com.
The exciting thing about working in an “online” field is that as a new media the old rules don’t apply. Much like television in the ‘50s, there are thousands of artist, writers, and merry-makers of all shapes and sizes taking advantage of the free-for-all, and some of their creations have truly been remarkable.
Rocketboom.com is a great example of the new opportunities that never existed with old forms of medias. Their “about” page states “A three minute daily videoblog based in New York. We cover and create a wide range of information and commentary from top news stores to quirky Internet culture.”
The videoblog is produced with one camera, a laptop and a very large audience. This site shows that the power to decide what information is dispensed is no longer in the hands of a few corporations (we really opened the Pandora’s Box on this one folks). Enjoy.

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Matthew Byrd