We are growing concerned. After her career as an ABC nonjournalist fizzled, the formerly famous, generously-racked host of Rocketboom has been absent from her own blog since November 27. An "under development "show with HBO has gone nowhere. On January 23, Congdon Twittered that she was "writing monster blog post reflecting on ABC and talking about what's next." Amanda, 28 days is more time than even Scoble puts into a post. Just press Publish, ok?
Whatever happened to Amanda Congdon?
5:00 PM on Thu Feb 21 2008
By Owen Thomas
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heard she's on the ho-train now ...but definitely caught the fail boat to where she is now. :P
Can someone explain to me why I should care about her?
You can't ever be formerly anything if you are generously-racked.
I just hope she doesn't get into it with the Scientologists
I wonder what the new video blog is going to look like.
Are you kidding? Scoble does well to put 28 seconds into a post.
I think Amanda fit nicely with Rocketboom, which at least pretended to be forever an amateur production. As soon as she tried to take a more professional approach, it actually came off as less so.
Don't get me wrong, I think most mainstream media is crap. But that means that people who try to expose too much of their real selves to the public end up failing, or relegated to "filler" shows as they don't fit in with the other crap stars or the crap people who produce the shows. Deborah Norville being another good example.
Sigh. Amanda should have leveraged her following with Rocketboom, built her own internet show that she could then harness and grow that following then start positioning it in front of media/entertainment to have it SOLD. No agent, no trying to be the 'talent' as she did. There's no money and little security in being the talent, and she could have built a nice little gold mine otherwise. Instead, she hired a talent agent at a time where talent agents didn't know shit about web personalities and now....the rest is history.
Amanda is getting just what she deserves. I hope more of these web jokes go this way.
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