So the buzz on the street... the internet street more specifically, is that Amanda Congdon of Rocketboom has been let go of by the show's producer... probably not a smart move on his part. Whether or not you were a big fan of the internet-show it's not much of an argument that Amanda was the face of RB and the driving-force behind it's popularity.

I'm a little slow on writing this - it's been almost a month since her last RB appearance - but I mention it for a different reason besides getting in on all the gossip. The company I work for deals in online video content, but from a internet-savvy perspective, it is doing so, in some areas, without fully embracing the current change in the internet.

When this company started, the sites was driven by content - but, from a personal point of view, I believe the internet has evolved, and sites are now driven more by community than content. For example there are twenty (a huge under-exaggeration) different online video sites - YouTube, Google Video, Blip TV, iKlipz, Yahoo!, etc, and most of them offer the same services and even video files free for download. So what keeps a person coming back? The site's openness and personal connection with it's users.

Rocketboom made good use of this, it was consistent (five shows every Monday through Friday), it was open in it's style, it was personal - each post had comments and they were good at utilizing those comments, 25% of the show's content was suggested by their own audience.

Note: This post has been saved as a draft for over three weeks now... I'm just gonna' wrap this up as quickly as possible.

Long story short - I persuaded my Boss that we should fly her out to LA and have her start up her own internet-show again and have it all paid for. He was very excited about it, all I had to do was get in touch with her. I thought, no problem, Amanda seems very responsive to her audience.

Well... like I said above, this post has been waiting to be published for over three weeks and I've yet to get a single response from her. Which is very, very frustrating.