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Amanda Congdon, sometimes
Published 5/4/2008 by Glenn at Download Movies 101
There’s something vaguely appropriate about the 100th post on Download Movies 101 going to online video star Amanda Congdon. We all remember Rocketboom, the wacky tacky daily news report with Amanda in the anchor seat, spinning around a lot with hair close behind. After a couple of years, there came a bunch of weirdness with the show’s creator. She split in a hurry, went on a video-blogging road trip and eventually landed on ABC News’ web site, where nothing of note appears to have transpired. That lasted about a year. So was it all just Rocketboom, ...

Amanda Congdon's Big Return Sure to ... Fizzle?
Published 5/5/2008 by david at Jossip
Amanda Congdon, whose anchorship of web news broadcast Rocketboom turned her into the posterchild of all that Web 2.0 can be, quickly sullied her career by abandoning her crunchy gig and heading to ABC News, where she turned out unwatchable (and, thus, unwatched) video news reports and quickly left. She had a deal at HBO that seemed to go nowhere, but she did sign up to do commercials with American Express, so that’s something. But now she’s back with Sometimesdaily, described as “an off-beat, interactive variety show exploring life’s themes through the inquisitive eyes of Amanda ...

Amanda Congdon Would Like to Mutter At You [The Internet Is Dismaying]
Published 5/5/2008 by Richard at Gawker
Remember Amanda "Rocketboom" Congdon, that thing with boobs that did stuff on the internet and parlayed her success into a job at ABC News? Yeah neither do I. Well, whoever she is she lost her job at ABC because nobody cared and she's now returned, sad little pink hat in hand, to the internet. She's launching a new blog news internet website called Sometimes Daily. And she would like to market it to you! Mostly via a completely nonsensical video featuring her brother (?), a strange park bench, and a dildo with little fans attached to it. If someone could please explain to me what is going on in the video, it would be greatly appreciated. I ...

Why Amanda Congdon Is Back on the Internet
Published 5/20/2008 by david at Jossip
Former video blogging sensation-cum-mainstream media flop, Amanda Congdon is now working with indie production studio Media Rights Capital to produce new web video series. Because while TV cameras add 10 pounds, web cameras add 10 pounds to your chest. [NYT] ...