[Greg Marra]

I just send you a long e-mail, but I guess I can put it here too. Check the e-mail listed in the Episode 3 show notes, because there's some other stuff at the end.

* More "non-live-to-tape" type content. The DiggNation format is great, but you could break it up (and make it seem less long, that last one was a doozey) by adding some other segments.

** In the Mayhem at the Merrimack episode, you showed intro footage of some people making Liquid Nitrogen ice cream: why not interview them and have it be a segment on the show?
** Interviews. Maybe you can interview someone well known in the community. Just ask them some questions and things like that.
** Video Contest: Lots of teams have video sub-teams. You know how 71 made that Motorola knock-off video? Have a contest where teams can submit a short movie like that to NERD Vision, and then the winner(s) get included in episodes! It'd get you free content, and promote video making in FIRST.

* Fancy Graphics!

** I know how much of a pain it is to do anything complex, but a few pop-overs would help. Like you did with the myspace URL in the last episode, overlays help us figure out what's going on. A bar at the beginning with "Andy Grady Jess Boucher" or whoever is on screen would be helpful to help new viewers learn who is who. Also, when you're talking about a particular event, you could throw images on. Like the NERD Awards, it would have been cool to have the pictures taken of the teams accepting the awards, or even just of their robots. And when you say e-mail addresses, you can flash them up on the screen to give the audience the actual thing, instead of having to listen.
** Credits are cool. Tell people who did what. Play our theme song again. Throw in blooper video.