What Bloggers Look Like to the Rest of the World
You may remember Amanda Congdon, the former (only moderately) tolerable host of Rocketboom. Well, she’s moving on to be be moderately tolerable on ABC’s online efforts. However, after seeing her video announcement, we can probably add ‘narcissistic’ to her description.
One has to wonder, is this how bloggers appear to the rest of the world?
November 16th, 2006 at 2:54 pm
[…] Not so long ago in a land called Internet-celebrity-dom, Ze Frank, the maker of a video blog, got fed up with all the glowing download numbers swirling around Rocketboom. Rocketboom is another video blog (or vlog to the kids) and former home of Amanda “My Friends Say I’m Funny” Congdon. […]
February 2nd, 2007 at 3:37 pm
[…] Sure this could have been any fan taking the time to splice logos of his favorite blogs into existing screen captures… *cough. But its also a sneaky coincidence that those same videos showed up embedded in Gwaker media posts. Latest word is that the copyright owners (Viacom, Apple, and *bleh Amanda Congdon) are rather upset that they’re copyrighted material wasn’t even given a proper derivative work treatment. […]
February 4th, 2007 at 8:23 am
[…] On NewTeeVee there’s a piece about Amanda Congdon, a person that everybody thought was a big fish; turns out she was big only because she came from the teeny tiny pond. As the piece by Steve Bryant says: If you’re looking for a reason why Congdon’s reporting has taken a turn for the retarded lately, scuttlebutt has it that she’s still shellshocked from her move to L.A. […]