Comments on: Internet Celebrity Doesn’t Translate: Amanda Congdon Let Go By ABC

By: Amanda Congdon Leaves ABC - Shallow Nation

Amanda Congdon Leaves ABC - Shallow Nation — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:46:41 +0000

[...] have become confirmed reports. According to TechCrunch, Amanda Congdon has left ABC: ABCNews.com said in a statement: “It’s been a great year with Amanda — a great experiment [...]

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By: Ferodynamics

Ferodynamics — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:28:06 +0000

I watched several of the original Rocketboom shows, could relate to Amanda farting around NYC interviewing artists, geeks, creative folks, with a pinch of tech news and web humor thrown in, maybe because I’m close to her age, artistic, geeky, and lived briefly in NY myself.

IMO “Unboomed” was a mistake at a critical time, requiring registration to comment, nobody takes Blogger.com seriously. Could give a rat’s ass about ABC either. I see she has a Wordpress now: http://amandacongdon.com/blog/ She would be more successful if she focused on writing, she has good ideas and a unique perspective.

Problem with video, you can’t easily scan through it or filter it. I can listen to IDM or maybe a focused podcast in the background, but listening to video while working on other things is not worth it.

By: John

John — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:03:42 +0000

Amanda Congdon is lame, has always been lame and will always be lame. She had next to zero talent, an annoying voice, atrocious delivery and horrible timing. If it wasn’t for her pretty face and fantastic breasts, no one would have even watched her. For instance, put a funny, but not nearly as attractive woman in her place. Do you think it would have had the same viewership? I doubt it.

By: Nicky

Nicky — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 02:48:48 +0000

Looks to me like ABC made a half-assed attempt at trying to capitalize on the hipness of the Internet by luring away one of the Internet’s hippest stars of the moment. Once again, no surprise that there’s not one original idea among TV executives, so they lazily came to the web and stole the first thing they heard was cool. And as usual, they ruin everything they touch.

Nearly every national and local TV news outlet, newspaper and news radio station is copy-catting the Internet by souping up their websites, adding blogs and podcasts, and prodding their on-air talent into posting stuff online. But it’s forced, contrived and clumsy. It lacks spontenaity and creative content. No one gives a rat’s ass what Cindy the local morning news anchor had for lunch, or how her trip to the mall went.

Here’s hoping the web creates some more new stars…and that TV stays away from them.

By: Yvonne DiVita

Yvonne DiVita — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:13:33 +0000

She was a no-talent, not even that attractive, bimbo. She still is. Good riddance. ABC should hire a woman with some talent…

By: G

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 01:28:41 +0000

Who cares? Karma’s a bitch. Nothing new. She’s just another cookie cutter tech girl like iJustine that has no talent other than being attractive and interested in tech. Yawn.

By: anemi easy

anemi easy — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:37:45 +0000

Chris Crocker heY! Are you reading this?
~ X anemi

By: Penelope Trunk

Penelope Trunk — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 16:31:26 +0000

Duncan,
Maybe there would not be so many comments here about Amanda’s breasts if you had not linked to a totally useless string of comments at Fark about her breasts. Why start the conversation with a link like that? I don’t get it.

Penelope

By: cl8ton

cl8ton — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 04:37:10 +0000

dam…I’m gonna miss that nice rack of hers
Sorry, did she speak during her broadcasts ??

By: The Phantom

The Phantom — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 00:21:22 +0000

She has as much talent as Katie Couric , and even more perkiness. Hire her! She’s so pretty!!

By: ofall

ofall — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 00:11:42 +0000

Maybe she will be a hit at the Playboy Channel. She has the assets!

By: Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 21:52:04 +0000

I hear that she is getting a job working for MS.

http://fakestev...er.blogspot.com

By: Nice rack

Nice rack — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 20:28:50 +0000

I have absolutely no idea who this chick is…You say she was somewhat “famous” at some point? Well she has got a nice rack, I’m sure she will have no problem landing some other gig soon. I bet she is really annoying to listen to though. Just a hunch. It is a nice rack though.

By: rich

rich — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:34:33 +0000

Nice melons, blond, leggy, great smile and she failed??? This can’t be happening in America!

By: phenom

phenom — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 18:10:13 +0000

Damn she is hot.
http://vidsonly.blogspot.com

By: Sam Sethi

Sam Sethi — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 17:35:25 +0000

Well once Mike Arrington and his new best friend Loic Le Meur start their video channels on Joost we will be able to see if they can do any better than Amanda. Personally I know who I would rather watch both visually and factually.

By: Taylor Moore

Taylor Moore — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 17:18:47 +0000

Maybe we could hire her for bikinizero.com ha.

By: Seth Finkelstein

Seth Finkelstein — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 15:49:28 +0000

Never confuse being a big fish in small pond, with swimming with the sharks.

By: InsertHere

InsertHere — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 14:46:35 +0000

I see how the still shot of her was perfectly chosen to make her look like a blow-up doll. Says a lot about what she was truly appreciated for. Men are gross.

By: KEHT

KEHT — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 13:45:27 +0000

Proves again that the means by which the content is delivered is more important than the content itself. Moving her to MSM won’t make me bookmark new sites or even buy a regular TV again. You born on the net, you’ll die on the net.

By: Madeline Charlton

Madeline Charlton — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 13:39:41 +0000

Perhaps Amanda didn’t sleep with as many people as Katie Couric to get to the top. You’d have to ask Michael Clemente how that went. Amanda is an extremely cutting edge person….a lot brighter than Katie any day of the week or whoever else we seem to have representing the female population. Perhaps she just didn’t put out which Klein suggests in his new book on Katie is just how it happened to that lil’ “sweet heart.” Amanda will jump right back to something bigger and better!

By: MarkB

MarkB — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 13:24:26 +0000

It’s a simple lesson – just because horny geekboys will drive up your viewer numbers online, doesn’t mean they will when you go mainstream.

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 01:55:01 +0000

look, the ascendancy is this.

1. Bedroom
2. Internet
3. TV
4. Rehab

TV is NOT dead because the prize of being on the interweb is that you get onto TV. When a broadcaster turns around one day and says, you know this star is so big we are going to put him onto the web then the model has changed.

Until then this poor girl is over, but i am sure more of you boggers still want to get on tv or in a newspaper

By: Clyde Smith

Clyde Smith — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 01:11:22 +0000

I’m not a Congdon fan but I do see that she worked well online in a way that wouldn’t necessarily translate to tv.

It would seem like a logical move to her but the reality is that many of these Internet stars work well online and won’t make it on tv. And that’s their strength cause a lot of tv talent couldn’t make it online separate from a major tv brand.

On the talent side it really would be hard to settle for web dollars when tv bucks are calling. That’s real money versus a scheme and a dream. So I understand her move but it was a tactic not a strategy.