REVIEW: rocketboom 2.0 with JoCo

What I love most about the media frenzy around host & producer Amanda Congdon's exit from Rocketboom, is the new online audience all the press is generating. With coverage on MSNBC, CNN, AP, and many others, Congdon is putting video blogging & online media on the mainstream map.

What Amanda doesn't realize is by airing dirty laundry with Rocketboom's founder Andrew Baron on her blog and in the media, she's bringing Rocketboom more viewers than ever.

Good thing Andrew and new host Joanne Colan (formerly of MTV Europe) finally released their first show ... and it wasn't bad. They addressed the Congdon-Baron spat publicly, with humor and class. Despite being flamed by Amanda on her blog, Baron had his new host point Congdon fans to her blog anyway. Nice touch. One thing Amanda did very well .... kept the episodes short. This new episode was a scoche long ... the trade-up gag got stale, especially with the jacket-cig box bit.

THR's prediction:

• Rocketboom will continue, evolve, and eventually be acquired by Rupert Murdoch.
  
• Amanda Congdon will indeed move to LA, host a web show or two, then get lost in the vortex of LA's aspiring actresses. She'll then move back to NYC and resurrect SNL's 30th season.