Rocketboom is a three minute daily videoblog hosted by Joanne Colan and based in New York City. We cover and create a wide range of information and commentary from top news stories to quirky internet culture.
The Rocketboom Institute for Internet Studies explains the phenomenon of om nom nom. Assets: Om Nom Montage, Nom Cake, cat bite dog, bizarre Nom, dog nom, caturday2, caturday3, caturday4, caturday53, omnom1, omnom2, omnom3, omnom4, omnom6, omnom5, omnom7, omnom bird, omnom8, Seasame Street Book Cover, Sesame Street Gang, Sesame Street Gang on the street
The Rocketboom Institute for Internet Studies recounts the realtime web experience that was Balloon Boy. Story links: , Twitter/9NEWS KUSA: Larimer CO Sheriff Deputies, !!SAUCER-SHAPE BALLOON LANDS AFTER HOURS IN FLIGHT, NO SIGN OF 6 YEAR OLD BALLOON BOY, 6-Yr-Old Boy Floats Away in Helium Balloon, Raw Airtracker Footage of drifting helium balloon thought to be containing 6-Year-old boy, 6 Year Old Colorado Boy Falcon Heene Falls out home made balloon, Shepard Smith and Fox News. They Just Don...
The Rocketboom Institute for Internet Studies examines the phenomenon of Auto-Tune with help from special guest Professor "Weird Al" Yankovic! Antares Auto Tune, T-Pain: Can't Believe It, NPR.org: Auto Tune in Action (audio), Cher: Believe, T-Pain, T-Pain: Chopped and Skrewed, T-Pain: Freeze, Auto-Tune:Why Pop Music Sounds Perfect, Perfect Pitch, Tone Deaf Stars Thrive on Digital Correction Software, T-Pain Builds Power with Digital Prowess, The Arusha Accord, Loftland – Shhh Just Listen, Auto...
The Rocketboom Institute for Internet Studies explains the who, what, when, and why of 'Where The Hell is Matt'. Story links: Destroy All Humans - ps2 - Mission 01 Destination Earth!, Where The Hell is Matt -- Interview with Matt Harding, Where the Hell WAS Matt?, Where the Hell is Matt Maps, Where the Hell is Matt Archive, Where The Hell Is Dousch, Mark English - Where The Hell Is Predator?, Where The Hell is Matt's Girlfriend?, Where the Hell is Matt? - Team Fortress 2 Style, Where the hell ...
Rocketboom Tech correspondent Ellie Rountree talks about the advancement of home robots from 1982 to today. Story links: NYT: Planning Domesticated Robots, Android Amusement Corp, Boys and Robots Will Be Boys, Tomy Omnibot 5402 From 1984 in Action!, Omnibot 5402/TR5000 By Tomy, Talking Robie 2, Furby Commercial 2000-Ain't No Furby Like Mine, Personal Robots CYE, Cye Pictures, First Generation Roomba Commercial, Shopsweeping, Floorwashing, Guttercleaning, Robomow, Paradise Robotics Lawnbott Evo...
story links: Typhoon Ondoy, Markina River Raging By, Typhoon Ondoy September 26, 2009, MODIS Rapid Response System, Quake, tsunami near American Samoa kills at least 22, LA lifeguards clear beaches, Indonesians shaken and struggling after devastating earthquake, Officials: 3,000 People Trapped due to Indonesian Quake, Second earthquake hits stricken Sumatra, Mudslides Bury Villages in Rural Sumatra Valley, Rescuers head for Indonesia, UN waits for official food request, Obama offers support fo...
Expedition 21/Space Flight Participant Soyuz Docking to International Space Station, NASA's LCROSS CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite, Human Population Calculator, List of countries by population, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Unfair Robot Fight, Original Winnie-the-Pooh Drawings, Kangaroo, New friend joins Winnie-the-Pooh
The Rocketboom Institute for Internet Studies gets down. Geddan quartet, Nico Nico Douga, Volume chaos GoldenEye 007, Goldeneye 007 - Gets down, strange mario 64 shindou edition glitch otherwise known as cartridge tilting, Super Mario Clouds, Carnival Chaos Geddan GoldenEye, Carnival Chaos Geddan GoldenEye, Geddan, GET DOWN on top of Toilet?!, Nitori gets down, Kannagi Geddan, Death Note Get Down, Basic Geddan, Kimoto Geddan, crazy japanese poster, Anime Geddan, YouTube Search for Geddan, Kiko...
Humanwire correspondent Valentina Canavesio reports on Luis Soriano Bohorquez who created the Biblioburro, or Library Donkey, in an effort to bring books and the gift of reading to the children in his community of La Gloria, Colombia.
Rocketboom's Ella Morton meets up with Oxfam's Human Countdown, President Obama, and the Yes Men during Climate Week NYC. Yes Men arrest footage provided by Brandon Jourdan.