Mahalo Daily Host Search (Follow Up)

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:31:36 +1200

Earlier, I gave my opinions about the six potential new co-hosts for Mahalo Daily. Since then, 3 were eliminated, then another, and now the final winner has been chosen, although who it is will only be announced tomorrow. In terms of the first elimination, I agree with Jason’s comment that if you don’t turn up you don’t get the job. Unless there was a last minute family emergency or something like that, then you need to demonstrate a fanatical willingness to do the job to get the job in the first place. So, although I thought Nadine was the best choice, and Michelle was good, I agreed that eliminating them was the right thing to do. (From Jason’s comments, it’s obvious that Nadine wouldn’t have got through anyway. Hopefully she’ll turn up in something else that isn’t MySpace). Dropping Sarah next was surprising - I expected that Kristina would go first, just based on experience (it really did seem like it would take a while for her to get up to the professional quality that Mahalo Daily seems to be aimed at). I ranked Sarah last, so that fit with me - she seems to have got something out of the experience, and if she & Lon do start a film podcast, it’s possible I’ll listen to that as well as Filmspotting. Kristina was obviously going to go before Leah & Andrea. For all the “dark horse” comments, she clearly was not of the same quality as the others, and while she might well have got there after a while, it doesn’t seem like this is the right place to be learning those skills. At this point, the “viral video” contest was introduced. I understand the reasoning behind this - the host does need to be able to be creative and imaginative, and hopefully “think outside the box”. Producing episodes that actually do spread would obviously also be great, since at least some viewers would start watching regularly. However, it was certainly a huge challenge - predicting what video will next catch the eye of the Internet masses is basically impossible. At least they didn’t base the winner on the number of YouTube views or something like that (although it would have been better to let the videos spread for a few days I think). First to appear was Andrea’s Guitar Hero training video: [youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=YacKD8CDyJg] This was pretty disappointing, since I would have previously chosen Andrea over Leah. Problems:

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Mahalo Daily Host Search (Follow Up)