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Making the Jump From Web To TV

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the cewebrities dept.

PreacherTom writes, "No stranger to the tech-savvy, video bloggers are the next phenomenon to go from online to the mainstream. For example, Internet celebrity Amanda Congdon just finished broadcasting her cross-country relocation from New York to L.A. on the Web. The former host of Rocketboom, one of the most popular of the video blogs, with roughly 211,000 daily viewers, has a new gig as a contributor for ABC. She's not alone. In fact, major movie and TV studios are increasingly looking to the Web for new talent for both on- and offline projects."

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  1. Non-representative sample by tkrotchko · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Amanda Congdon"

    I asked the twenty people around me if they'd ever heard of this person. No one has.

    I went to her site. A lot of bandwidth to tell you that she's famous and will be on TV soon. She points you to her own entry on Wikipedia (which looks suspiciously like her web site). The web site says that she's famous and will be on TV soon.

    I suspect one of the editors of /. just met her and is smitten with her. Now he can call and say "gee, I hope we didn't [nervous laugh] slashdot your site [more nervous laughter]"

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    You were mistaken. Which is odd, since memory shouldn't be a problem for you
  2. Re:podcasts++, videocasts-- by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 5, Funny

    You can watch videocasts whilst driving.
    Its just one of many things possible now with powerful notebook computers and wireless internet.

    Right now I am driving down the motorway typing on a full qwerty keyboard and theres no probl%^^^&^!"$^%$[NO CARRIER]

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    liqbase :: faster than paper