Remember Rocketboom founder Andrew Baron’s recent critique of ABC’s new Amanda Congdon video blog? One of his chief complaints was the show’s “irrelevant pre-roll ads that outlast many people‚Äôs curiosity.” While Baron’s critique may not be completely impartial, his experience as a video podcasting pioneer gives him insight into what works and doesn’t work in [...]

Rocketboom founder Andrew Baron has a few choice words about ABC’s new video blog featuring former Rocketboom host Amanda Congdon. He’s also got some interesting points to make about mainstream media’s attempts to clone the success of indie vlogs: “I’m going to set aside all of the technical problems everyone has already mentioned with the [...]

Former Rocketboom host Amanda Congdon has made the move to ABC, where she “dishes” the news with the same irreverence that made her a video podcasting star. ABC calls her work a videoblog. There’s no RSS feeds currently, and you have to sit through ads and you have to watch it through a pop-up interface. [...]

Amanda Congdon, co-founder and former host of Rocketboom, is developing a comedy program for HBO. “HBO is exactly the place where I want to be,” Congdon said. “I’m most interested in playing in that new dimension with two parallel levels of programming, online and on TV.” According to Congdon, she’s aiming for a multiplatform property [...]

At the Podcasting and Portable Media Expo, held last weekend in Ontario, California, we had the opportunity to talk with Andrew Michael Baron and Joanne Colan of Rocketboom, right, before they headed out to LA for the evening. As you can tell from the photo, Baron and Colan looked exuberant to be at the Expo. [...]

Former Rocketboom anchor Amanda Congdon has announced plans to vlog her way across America at a new site, Amanda Across America.

Alexa traffic reports suggest that Rocketboom could be better off without Amanda Congdon, or at least that the controversy over Congdon leaving gave the show a kick in the seat: Alexa charts traffic to Internet sites based on the activity of users of the Alexa toolbar.

While Rocketboom fans wait to see the debut of Joanne Colan, the former MTV host has introduced a new blog site, JoanneColan.net.Colan signs her introduction Joanne C., Host of Rocketboom.com. Colan was originally scheduled to debut today, but a note at the site says to expect new episodes starting Tuesday, July 11th.

Amanda Congdon today announced that she is leaving Rocketboom, the wildly popular videoblog, because “apparently my partner, Andrew Baron, is no longer interested in being my partner.”“I have just learned of this myself from watching Amanda’s video,” said co-creator Andrews Baron when he heard the news. “I guess it is in fact over.” Rocketboom, R.I.P.?Though [...]

Rocketboom has posted an official response to Amanda Congdon’s announcement that she was moving on.While many in the blogosphere have been characterizing Congdon’s announcement as if she was fired, the official Rocketboom word is that she quit the show. “We wanted to meet her demands to move production out to L.A., however, we are a [...]