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Videoblogger Amanda Congdon, who was once famous on the Internet for being famous on the Internet, has returned from a noncareer at ABC and an as-yet invisible development deal with HBO to introduce Sometimesdaily.com, a series of Web videos about, as far as we can tell, making Web videos. At least Rocketboom, on which Congdon's bosom won her many fans, was about something, though we can't quite remember what.
Amanda Congdon returns to Web video with video on Web about Web video
Videoblogger Amanda Congdon, who was once famous on the Internet for being famous on the Internet, has returned from a noncareer at ABC and an as-yet invisible development deal with HBO to introduce Sometimesdaily.com, a series of Web videos about, as far as we can tell, making Web videos. At least Rocketboom, on which Congdon's bosom won her many fans, was about something, though we can't quite remember what.
online video
Sarah Atwood has my vote for Mahalo Daily Idol
The clock is ticking down to Saturday's open casting call to fill the role of Mahalo Daily host. The job, formerly held by Veronica Belmont, is to serve as the pretty face for Jason Calacanis's site that's trying to cash in on top search terms. I'll go ahead and endorse Nerdtainment's Sarah Atwood. Am I just offering my recommendation because she put me in her audition video? Of course! But I do have other, less narcissistic reasons. More »
comebacks
The triumphant nonreturn of Amanda Congdon
Thank goodness! Just a day after our missing-persons alert on former videoblogger Amanda Congdon, she turned up on her blog with a 794-word entry she's been working on for a month. Here's a version she could have fit in a Twitter: "I'm going daily on a new videoblog in 2008. I'm in pre-production for the new project now." More Amanda, coming to you live in less than 11 months!
mysteries
Whatever happened to Amanda Congdon?
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?
sandra soroka
Facebook dumper may have staged Digg-linked hack
Sandra Soroka, the New York videoblogger who dumped her boyfriend through her Facebook status message may not have had her Flickr account hacked by outraged Digg users, as we previously reported. Some now suggest she staged the hack, hoping it would stem the tide of invective flooding her Facebook inbox, according to Underwire. "You can't write anything because I'm not saying anything," Soroka told fellow videoblogger Sarah Meyers, who reported Soroka was closing all her online accounts. Doesn't look like that worked, hmm?
media
Natali Del Conte heads for New York
We've always known Natali Del Conte, the host of Podshow's TeXtra, was destined for a bigger stage. And she's found one in a new gig at CNET — in New York City. In addition to online video for CNET, she'll be making the rounds of television shows like Good Morning America to explain gadgets and websites to the masses. Broadcast television viewed by millions, not a podcast downloaded by hundreds, is still the proper ambition of anyone with killer looks and a telegenic personality. We doubt Del Conte's stay at CNET will be any longer than Soledad O"Brien's stint on The Site. Give Natali a year and she'll have pushed out notorious nobody Julia Allison as Fox TV's token brunette. Sucks for us, Natali, but hurray for you.
the winnies
Here's a little taste of what you'll be missing if you are unable to attend the inaugural Winnies held at Cinespace in Los Angeles tonight: MC Slutsky and her Krew performing "Vlog Deathmatch" live. Sadly, the event will not include any other deathmatches. Like the Special Olympics, everyone is a winner at these vlog awards, hosted by videobloggers Irina Slutsky and Gary Vaynerchuk. Lan Bui, Vu Bui, and Bonny Pierzini of the irreverent Noodle Scar also helped organize the event. Our only disappointment: With no losers in attendance, how can we possibly cover the event?
Don't miss vlogger Irina Slutsky embarrassing herself
Here's a little taste of what you'll be missing if you are unable to attend the inaugural Winnies held at Cinespace in Los Angeles tonight: MC Slutsky and her Krew performing "Vlog Deathmatch" live. Sadly, the event will not include any other deathmatches. Like the Special Olympics, everyone is a winner at these vlog awards, hosted by videobloggers Irina Slutsky and Gary Vaynerchuk. Lan Bui, Vu Bui, and Bonny Pierzini of the irreverent Noodle Scar also helped organize the event. Our only disappointment: With no losers in attendance, how can we possibly cover the event?
andrew baron
Rocketboom creator takes on Calacanis
Jason Calacanis's human-powered search engine Mahalo is "fundamentally flawed," says videoblogger Andrew Baron. Well, we could have told you that: It's basically Yahoo's directory, 12 years too late. But Baron, best known for creating Rocketboom, trashed Calacanis's service not for its lack of originality, but for its lack of critical applause. "Mahalo is not a worthwhile product," Baron wrote, "I have never seen a single positive review of the site." What's got the guy so worked up?More »
jason calacanis
How high is Jason Calacanis on his new videoblogger? "Veronica Belmont is a Rojas-level hire," he reportedly told groupies who showed up for a dim sum dinner in New York's Chinatown yesterday. That may sound like praise for Belmont, the videoblogger he hired away from CNET. But it's really more egotism. The thing you need to know about Jason Calacanis, the boy from Brooklyn who moved to Tinseltown, is that he fancies himself a new-age Hollywood mogul for the Web. Like a studio boss of old, he hopes to manufacture stars. Take, for example, his flashy hire of Peter Rojas away from Gizmodo (like Valleywag, a site published by Gawker Media) to run Engadget. Calacanis parlayed Engadget into a blog network, Weblogs Inc., which he then sold for $25 million to AOL. As an AOL executive, when Amanda Congdon left Rocketboom, he publicly offered her a videoblogging deal — which never panned out. Now, with Belmont, Mahalo's new videoblogger, Calacanis again wants to create a new star. He's fooling himself.
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"Veronica Belmont is a 'Rojas-level' hire"
How high is Jason Calacanis on his new videoblogger? "Veronica Belmont is a Rojas-level hire," he reportedly told groupies who showed up for a dim sum dinner in New York's Chinatown yesterday. That may sound like praise for Belmont, the videoblogger he hired away from CNET. But it's really more egotism. The thing you need to know about Jason Calacanis, the boy from Brooklyn who moved to Tinseltown, is that he fancies himself a new-age Hollywood mogul for the Web. Like a studio boss of old, he hopes to manufacture stars. Take, for example, his flashy hire of Peter Rojas away from Gizmodo (like Valleywag, a site published by Gawker Media) to run Engadget. Calacanis parlayed Engadget into a blog network, Weblogs Inc., which he then sold for $25 million to AOL. As an AOL executive, when Amanda Congdon left Rocketboom, he publicly offered her a videoblogging deal — which never panned out. Now, with Belmont, Mahalo's new videoblogger, Calacanis again wants to create a new star. He's fooling himself.
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veronica belmont
Jason Calacanis hired popular videoblogger Veronica Belmont back in July to host a daily show for his so-called "search engine" Mahalo, but nothing had emerged on the Mahalo Daily front since then. Finally, the video series is set to launch next week. What does a daily video podcast have to do with "curating quality links" to improve search engine results? Absolutely nothing, of course. But the bulldog-cute funtrepreneur has a plan nonetheless. More »
Videoblogger to Mahalo's rescue!
Jason Calacanis hired popular videoblogger Veronica Belmont back in July to host a daily show for his so-called "search engine" Mahalo, but nothing had emerged on the Mahalo Daily front since then. Finally, the video series is set to launch next week. What does a daily video podcast have to do with "curating quality links" to improve search engine results? Absolutely nothing, of course. But the bulldog-cute funtrepreneur has a plan nonetheless. More »
vlog hotornot
Valley geeks vote on their own unfulfilled libidos
New voting site Dig a Silicon Valley Girl has reached the pinnacle of loser-generated content. It makes the implicit explicit — the sex-starved id of the male-dominated Valley made tangible in a thoroughly useless, if entertainingly revealing site. DSVG recycles the social voting of Digg, mixes it with rating site HotorNot, and, we're sad to say, mixes in a thorough helping of Valleywag's archives, minus the social critique. Now lonely geeks can vote for their juvenile obsessions in public, rather than leaving juvenile comments across the Web, tittering in whispers at the next Web 2.0 event, or entertaining themselves singlehandedly to tech-news podcasts. There's only one higher purpose this site can serve: Becoming the destination for all the frustrated prepubescents who clog up the comments of sites trying to cover significant, breaking news ... like the wardrobes of videobloggers, for example.
videobloggers
Oh, my, God that dress. Some cruel Internet bug caused the hyper-videogenic Natali Del Conte's TeXtra clips to go dark over the weekend. We're happy to report that they're back in all their far-hotter-than-certain-other-videobloggers-we-could-name glory. Navigating PodShow's overbuilt interface to find and play the clips is way harder than YouTube, locking out all but the most hardcore of fanboys. Free Natali! And her wardrobe! More »
Natali Del Conte crisis narrowly averted
Oh, my, God that dress. Some cruel Internet bug caused the hyper-videogenic Natali Del Conte's TeXtra clips to go dark over the weekend. We're happy to report that they're back in all their far-hotter-than-certain-other-videobloggers-we-could-name glory. Navigating PodShow's overbuilt interface to find and play the clips is way harder than YouTube, locking out all but the most hardcore of fanboys. Free Natali! And her wardrobe! More »
robert scoble
Scobleizer says shutdown rumor is "bull####"
Robert Scoble, the king of mindless time-wasting afternoon desktop entertainment — at least for me — blogs a denial of senior Forbes staffer Dan Lyons's claim that PodTech, Scoble's employer, is shutting down soon. As Scobleizer correctly fumes, had Lyons posted the rumor for his mag instead of on his semi-fictional blog, he would've been forced to at least call someone at PodTech for a reaction first. Still, Scoble's wrong when he claims I propagated the rumor because I "compete" with him. Robert, you're one of my best free content providers. Don't ever go!
vlog hot
What is more appealing to the predominantly male tech audience than a hot girl talking tech in a video podcast? A hot girl making silly mistakes, of course. Grown men love to ogle hot girls making silly mistakes. "Oops, she's so cute." We're not saying it's good, or right, or proper. We're just saying that at the request of her Web admirers, former TechCrunch writer Natali Del Conte, host of PodShow's Textra, took a break from her vacation to satisfy their prepubescent desires with the above blooper reel. While Del Conte has failed to catch on like other vlog hotties, this video, devoid of useful content, will surely provide a minor bump to her usual traffic. As well as producing other minor bumps.
Natali Del Conte makes a cute mistake
What is more appealing to the predominantly male tech audience than a hot girl talking tech in a video podcast? A hot girl making silly mistakes, of course. Grown men love to ogle hot girls making silly mistakes. "Oops, she's so cute." We're not saying it's good, or right, or proper. We're just saying that at the request of her Web admirers, former TechCrunch writer Natali Del Conte, host of PodShow's Textra, took a break from her vacation to satisfy their prepubescent desires with the above blooper reel. While Del Conte has failed to catch on like other vlog hotties, this video, devoid of useful content, will surely provide a minor bump to her usual traffic. As well as producing other minor bumps.
online video
Boing Boing to launch daily Internet-TV show
Is any blogger still satisfied with merely blogging? The quirky alternative website Boing Boing, which claims 7.5 million monthly viewers, will debut a daily online video show Wednesday. After closet negotiations with national networks, the Boing Boingers decided to go it alone and own the show themselves. But this is no basement operation. BBtv's Hollywood agent is George Ruiz at clout-wielding ICM, who also handles Christopher Walken, Jennifer Connelly and Richard Dreyfus. Robolicious blogger Xeni Jardin (left), whose TV credits include appearances on Dennis Miller and most of the big nightly newsies, will host. She'll coanchor with fellow BB editor Mark Frauenfelder, best known for his TV appearance in an Apple ad. More »
videobloggers
Vlog hottie Amanda Congdon has posted her best video in months — maybe ever. The fact that it's an ad-libbed outtake that could never be featured on a major news network just goes to show that she was never meant for ABC. Maybe her rumored project with the relatively uncensored HBO will work out after all. Of course, I'm still laughing too hard to admit that I'm ignoring some key problems. More »
Amanda Congdon bounces back with best video ever
Vlog hottie Amanda Congdon has posted her best video in months — maybe ever. The fact that it's an ad-libbed outtake that could never be featured on a major news network just goes to show that she was never meant for ABC. Maybe her rumored project with the relatively uncensored HBO will work out after all. Of course, I'm still laughing too hard to admit that I'm ignoring some key problems. More »
Anarchic headline-discussion site Fark's predictably juvenile — if completely on target — take on a videoblogger's departure from mainstream TV: "Amanda Congdon and her world-class breasts are gone from ABC.com" [Fark]
