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Last night I took a break from editing Kitkast #1.15 at just the right time. At 9:05pm I made a break from my computer to check out CSI.

There had been buzz a couple of days earlier saying that Amanda Congdon from Rocketboom was going to make a cameo appearance on the show as herself, but when I watched the beginning credits I didn’t see her name mentioned. I also realized that CSI is a show from Las Vegas and Rocketboom is produced in New York, so I wasn’t even sure if I was watching the right show. About 35 minutes into the episode, however, the murderer began browsing the Internet and, sure enough, he started watching ‘Rocketboom’.

Watching ‘Rocketboom’ on CSI was truly a surreal experience. Here are the little differences I observed:

• Amanda had slightly more coiffed hair;
• More bosom than usual;
• Different intro (instead of “Hello and good [weekday], I’m Amanda Congdon and this is Rocketboom”, she said “Hey people… Amanda Congdon from Rocketboom.com with this week’s brief report.”;
• Different background (instead of the usual RB Map of the World, there was an image of Las Vegas on a green screen);
• Completely different subject matter than a regular RB episode (instead of the usual quirky stories, she was reporting a homicide story);
• No embedded story links;
• Not the usual 320×240 (iPod size);
• RB video is already loaded when the killer clicks on the link (funny, that never happens to me… I guess you’ve got to be a serial killer…);
• The FULL Rocketboom story is written out in the Google results instead of just the brief story links;
• The Google results also showed capitalization when regular Rocketboom stories are usually typed in lower case;
• The Google results show the Rocketboom URL as being “www.www.rocketboom.com” instead of “www.rocketboom.com”.

Well, I guess that’s Hollywood for you! I really enjoyed the short segment and was smiling the whole time picking out the differences that regular CSI/Non-Rocketboom fans wouldn’t notice. It was so much fun.

I received an e-mail this morning from one of my Kitkast viewers, saying he wished it was me on CSI. I was very touched. Oh well, who knows… perhaps I’ll be approached someday to make a Kitkast segment when there’s a sex-related murder on the show! Aw hell, who am I kidding, I’d even love being the murder victim!

If you’d like to check out the Rocketboom segment on CSI, click here (via Chuck Olsen at the Yahoo Videoblogging Group).

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