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. Feeds [...]
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 that will [...]
The Vloggies, a video blogging award presented by PodTech, were held Saturday, November 4th, in a ceremony in San Francisco. The ceremony was hosted by PodTech’s Irina Slutsky, and soap-opera star turned vlogger Daniel McVicar.
Winners included Rocketboom, Ryanne Hodson, Ask a Ninja, Diggnation and Galacticast. Josh Wolf, who is currently in jail for refusing to [...]
Former Rocketboom host Amanda Congdon got her start in video podcasting via an ad at Craigslist.
These recent help wanted listings might not be similar opportunities, but stranger things have happened.
Bikini Model
Model for an outdoor viral video ad to be shown on YouTube and Podcast. Blogger a plus. Spaloo is looking for a vivacious woman to [...]
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. But [...]
Former Rocketboom anchor Amanda Congdon has announced plans to vlog her way across America at a new site, Amanda Across America.
Guest Report by John Wall
PodCamp Boston, a free ad-hoc gathering of people interested in podcasting is underway at Bunker Hill Community College, just north of Boston in Charlestown.. The event, being held Sept 9-10, 2006, is an informal get together where people can organize discussions on any podcasting topic they are interested in.
Day 1 of [...]
The Washington Post has announced a video mashup contest, the WashingtonPost.com Video Mash-Up, following the lead of vloggers and video podcasters that have encouraged mashups or remixes of their videos.
Earlier in the year, for example, Rocketboom published a kit for making video mashups. The DIY Amanda Dinner & a Website kit featured video of former [...]
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.
Wondering what host Amanda Congdon is doing, now that the Rocketboom controversy has died down?
A new vlog post at AmandaUnboomed documents Congdon’s attempts to become gainfully employed, post-Rocketboom:
Watch for the not-so-subtle jab at Rocketboom partner Andrew Baron.
