Depending on who you believe, Amanda Congdon was either fired from RocketBoom or decided to move on to Hollywood to become a star. Because Congdon was Rocketboom, the former is probably closer to the actual truth. Either way, her future is bright—she already got a pretty peachy job offer from Jason Calcanis—and Rocketboom is probably toast, destined for the second tier of video blogs if it survives at all. Congdon, for now, continues to video blog at Amanda UnBoomed.
So why is this gossip worthy of our attention? Because it hasn’t yet made it into the corporate media’s publication cycle, if it ever does, and with about 250,000 daily viewers, Congdon’s audience share rivals corporate cable shows. Because AOL, through Calcanis’s Netscape offer, has offered a video blogger ownership rights and full-scale studio and editorial support. And mostly because this is happening real-time in the blogosphere—outside of the corporate mediasphere—right before our eyes. This should be all the proof corporate managers need to let their editors move as fast as they possibly can to a continuous publication cycle.
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