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Article: Rocketboom Star Exits Her Famous Perch
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- July 7, 2006
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NEW YORK - "The Internet is like a smoothly paved road," Amanda Congdon told viewers the last time she appeared on her popular video blog, Rocketboom. "I can go anywhere I want."
She wasn't talking about her career, but she could have been.
In less than two years as the quirky, goofy-but-gorgeous host of a low-tech, three-minute fake newscast, Congdon, who left Rocketboom this week in a dispute with her partner, achieved a kind of fame unique to this Internet age.
It was the kind of fame that had little to do with money, at least until recently. For the first year Congdon made $50 an episode. Segments were created in the one-bedroom Manhattan apartment of Congdon's partner and ...