Comments on: Behind Rocketboom's breakup fireworks

Amanda Congdon, the former face of the video blog site, shares her thoughts and views on the "he said, she said" drama.

[ss_Whiplash]

Wow

I've been in this industry for a quite a while now and I think I'm pretty plugged in... but this whole Rocketboom thing just surprised the heck out of me. I'd never even HEARD of them until this whole "fiasco" took place. I went and took a look at their archives... and now I know why. This was a horrible piece of video production. I can't help but think that the whole hoopla surrounding this was becuase Amanda Congdon is kinda cute, and we techies are just a ***** bunch.

[curtegg]

who cares

nuf said

[WileySkier]

No Doubt

I can second that bit about her being a hottie. Unfortunately, the ruckus she's stirring up about how she was so "wronged" overshadows what creativity and intelligence she may have. Come on?stop whining and move on. If you were really righteous, you?d give him back the shares he ?gave? you, start up something else and never look back.

[Broward Horne]

Thoughts On Meme Manipulation

http://www.realmeme.com/roller/page/realmeme?entry=rocketboom_and_vlogs

"In fact, this graph is similar to the suspicious Breitbart graph. It's possible that a deliberate Internet hype campaign is underway to drive interest in Internet video and the associated companies."

[Im-Not-TED]

CNET must be hurting for "news"

After reading the first page of this two page article I went to Slashdot to purge my short term memory. Who cares?!

[Im-Not-TED]

CNET must be hurting for "news"

After reading the first page of this two page article I went to Slashdot to purge my short term memory. Who cares?!

[The Harper]

Why is this on CNET's front page?

I hadn't heard anything about 'rocketboom' until this woman began complaining about losing her job. Still, I struggle to understand why this is on the front page of the CNet news site.

I notice that both whats-her-name, and CNet, named-dropped the "I just spoke with MSNBC" tidbit. Is that why CNet considers this news? Because MSNBC does?

[The Harper]

Why is this on CNET's front page?

I hadn't heard anything about 'rocketboom' until this woman began complaining about losing her job. Still, I struggle to understand why this is on the front page of the CNet news site.

I notice that both whats-her-name, and CNet, named-dropped the "I just spoke with MSNBC" tidbit. Is that why CNet considers this news? Because MSNBC does?

[baswwe]

I never heard of this or saw this..

Guess I'm not tech enough or not a l0ser.

[baswwe]

I never heard of this or saw this..

Guess I'm not tech enough or not a l0ser.

Does anyone know who this is?

Or why we should care?

Is this like the girlfriend of one of CNET's 'journalists' or something?

Does anyone know who this is?

Or why we should care?

Is this like the girlfriend of one of CNET's 'journalists' or something?

[blodot]

CNet getting waaayyy too parochial

I can't begin to tell you how irrelevant all this is in the developing world. At least tech and corporate maneouverings and some US domestic stuff have some impact outside of the US. Stuff like this is totally inward looking.

[blodot]

CNet getting waaayyy too parochial

I can't begin to tell you how irrelevant all this is in the developing world. At least tech and corporate maneouverings and some US domestic stuff have some impact outside of the US. Stuff like this is totally inward looking.

[bgrimm]

out of the stone age

Parochial? Yes, perhaps, and it couldn't happen soon enough. It's about time America started examining itself and the way it does things. Rocketboom (and Amanda Congdon), among many many others, is involved in American introspection... and fun, and dorkiness as well.

I've been diving into the vlog realm head first lately, so when I read everyone's comments I became concerned that I had a skewed perspective on the importance all of this vlog busines. So I did a quick search. The first page turned up some interesting names commenting on growth of video blogging (as well as R.B.) in the last month; Gates, Forbes, Scoble, Malik, MSNBC, Google, to name but a pinch. Warner Bros. cutting deals with YouTube... Gates telling CEOs that starting a channel9 (Microsoft's vlog network) is the best thing they could do for themselves... Scoble's recruitment at Podtech being the biggest tech news for two weeks straight... 300 regularly updated vlogs to 6000 in just one year...

I have to stop somewhere. But this ain't it. Vloging represents the dissolution of media power structures - now mega-media such as "Lost" is facing competition from low-fi content produced with $10k worth of equipment in some college kid's dorm. Don't trust modern big media? No worries, there's about 10k other sources you can find thanks to vlogdom. Most of it is junk? Sure, same goes for TV news content, what's new? start sorting.

Video blogging is the most interesting thing going on in media news, and one of the more interesting things going on in democracy. Rocketboom, as the golden child of that world, is bound to make headlines, it's just a reflection of where the power increasingly lies; in the hands of the little guy. Alas, I am but a humble video production designer, so please, dont take my word for it. Trust the names that DO know a little about business, media and trends - here's a couple links to get you started:

Forbes:
http://www.forbes.com/bow/b2c/category.jhtml?id=316

Scoble blog:
http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/

Technorati:
http://www.technorati.com/tags/vlog

For small business:
http://seedsofgrowth.com/what-the-heck-is-a-vlog

[dysonl]

We Know

We all know what "vlog" is and its much publicized, and seemingly inevitable, rise in importance and popularity.

What we've never heard of is this Rocketboom thing.

[bgrimm]

out of the stone age

Parochial? Yes, perhaps, and it couldn't happen soon enough. It's about time America started examining itself and the way it does things. Rocketboom (and Amanda Congdon), among many many others, is involved in American introspection... and fun, and dorkiness as well.

I've been diving into the vlog realm head first lately, so when I read everyone's comments I became concerned that I had a skewed perspective on the importance all of this vlog busines. So I did a quick search. The first page turned up some interesting names commenting on growth of video blogging (as well as R.B.) in the last month; Gates, Forbes, Scoble, Malik, MSNBC, Google, to name but a pinch. Warner Bros. cutting deals with YouTube... Gates telling CEOs that starting a channel9 (Microsoft's vlog network) is the best thing they could do for themselves... Scoble's recruitment at Podtech being the biggest tech news for two weeks straight... 300 regularly updated vlogs to 6000 in just one year...

I have to stop somewhere. But this ain't it. Vloging represents the dissolution of media power structures - now mega-media such as "Lost" is facing competition from low-fi content produced with $10k worth of equipment in some college kid's dorm. Don't trust modern big media? No worries, there's about 10k other sources you can find thanks to vlogdom. Most of it is junk? Sure, same goes for TV news content, what's new? start sorting.

Video blogging is the most interesting thing going on in media news, and one of the more interesting things going on in democracy. Rocketboom, as the golden child of that world, is bound to make headlines, it's just a reflection of where the power increasingly lies; in the hands of the little guy. Alas, I am but a humble video production designer, so please, dont take my word for it. Trust the names that DO know a little about business, media and trends - here's a couple links to get you started:

Forbes:
http://www.forbes.com/bow/b2c/category.jhtml?id=316

Scoble blog:
http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/

Technorati:
http://www.technorati.com/tags/vlog

For small business:
http://seedsofgrowth.com/what-the-heck-is-a-vlog

[dysonl]

We Know

We all know what "vlog" is and its much publicized, and seemingly inevitable, rise in importance and popularity.

What we've never heard of is this Rocketboom thing.

[TomTester]

If you didn't know... you should have...

Anyone here who did not know about Rocketboom *should have*... just like you needed to know about friendster, myspace & facebook over 2 years ago...

Other things to know about these days: youtube & stickam (video), lunarstorm & hyves (Europe), vmware & xen (virtualization), GDrive & Amazon S3 (hosted storage) etc. etc.

But back to this RB story...

I'm not convinced that Amanda's side is the only side that needed to be heard. I heard about her departure from HER blog (unboomed) before anything appeared on RB.

Quite frankly I think this was a case of an anchor overestimating her contribution and feeling indispensible after becoming 'the face' and a producer who did not want to lose controle over his creation.

If Andrew had truly 'planned' to push her out, wouldn't he have had another person lined up to replace her?

PS I never liked RB, *because* of the humor and 'boobie-appeal'.

[TomTester]

If you didn't know... you should have...

Anyone here who did not know about Rocketboom *should have*... just like you needed to know about friendster, myspace & facebook over 2 years ago...

Other things to know about these days: youtube & stickam (video), lunarstorm & hyves (Europe), vmware & xen (virtualization), GDrive & Amazon S3 (hosted storage) etc. etc.

But back to this RB story...

I'm not convinced that Amanda's side is the only side that needed to be heard. I heard about her departure from HER blog (unboomed) before anything appeared on RB.

Quite frankly I think this was a case of an anchor overestimating her contribution and feeling indispensible after becoming 'the face' and a producer who did not want to lose controle over his creation.

If Andrew had truly 'planned' to push her out, wouldn't he have had another person lined up to replace her?

PS I never liked RB, *because* of the humor and 'boobie-appeal'.

[crpearson]

Leads on what she might be doing next.

There are some people taling about her future project.

http://spiralbound.net/2006/07/19/amanda-congdon-bisonboom/
http://borkweb.com/story/bisonboom-logo

[crpearson]

Leads on what she might be doing next.

There are some people taling about her future project.

http://spiralbound.net/2006/07/19/amanda-congdon-bisonboom/
http://borkweb.com/story/bisonboom-logo

[ss_Whiplash]

Wow

I've been in this industry for a quite a while now and I think I'm pretty plugged in... but this whole Rocketboom thing just surprised the heck out of me. I'd never even HEARD of them until this whole "fiasco" took place. I went and took a look at their archives... and now I know why. This was a horrible piece of video production. I can't help but think that the whole hoopla surrounding this was becuase Amanda Congdon is kinda cute, and we techies are just a ***** bunch.

[curtegg]

who cares

nuf said

[WileySkier]

No Doubt

I can second that bit about her being a hottie. Unfortunately, the ruckus she's stirring up about how she was so "wronged" overshadows what creativity and intelligence she may have. Come on?stop whining and move on. If you were really righteous, you?d give him back the shares he ?gave? you, start up something else and never look back.

[Broward Horne]

Thoughts On Meme Manipulation

http://www.realmeme.com/roller/page/realmeme?entry=rocketboom_and_vlogs

"In fact, this graph is similar to the suspicious Breitbart graph. It's possible that a deliberate Internet hype campaign is underway to drive interest in Internet video and the associated companies."