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UnBoomed: Rocketboom rift roundup

Nick Douglas — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 10:30:00 EDT

The business divorce between Rocketboom producer Andrew Baron and anchor Amanda Congdon gets bitchier by the hour. (If you just tuned in, see Amanda's original announcement and Andrew's rebuttal.)

Rocket Vote asks everyone to pick sides — click on Andy or Amanda to vote for the one you believe. [Rocket Vote]
AOL's Jason Calacanis offered Amanda a job vlogging for Netscape. She should take it while Netscape still has major readership. [Valleywag]
Amanda heightens the tension with her latest blog post, in which she argues with a letter from Andrew, point by point. [Amanda UnBoomed]
Blogger Dave Winer — one of Amanda's apparent heroes — says she wasn't transparent in her video, so we don't know how this precipitated. Winer wisely recommends watching some Ze Frank shows instead. [Scripting News]
Blogger Stowe Boyd lambasts Baron for letting this happen, since "without Amanda there is no Rocketboom, obviously." [Stowe Boyd]

Waggable: I take my little turn on the catwalk

Nick Douglas — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 10:30:17 EDT

Overheard from one of those conference-obsessed (but too-cool-to-attend) folks, about one of those conference-obsessed (too-cool-to-turn-down-a-panel) folks (pictured):

I looked at Under the Radar sched and completely misread this line: "Judges: Stowe Boyd, A Working Model."
I imagined Stowe strutting down a runway.

Dunno about you, but I'm thinking "underwear model."

Week's best comments: Nathan Tyler and a naked Stowe Boyd

ndouglas — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 12:10:01 EST

Openwag hyperbolizes in Nathan Tyler, the hottest man in Google:

Nathan Tyler's hotness is like a force of perpetual motion, and this causes him to be difficult to photograph. One time Nathan Tyler's hotness made Richard Avedon's light meter explode. He's that hot.

Openwag earns a promotion in Marissa Mayer's not-so-open office:

She works her ass off despite the multiple hundy millions and still remains very accessible. The person moaning above sounds like they just got a crappy annual review.

Kyle Bunch swears he only makes deals at T.G.I.F.'s in Om Malik blows up SF's best cafes:

Chili's is the new golf course. It's where business happens.
— Small Businessman Magazine

Nathan Weinberg crushes our hopes in Niniane the Google blogger:

Actually, she's got a long-term boyfriend. Starting dating him when he was a Google intern. Its all in the blog.

Stowe Boyd scares us all in Tech pundits getting naked: a worrisome trend:

I am willing to strip down. For a price. A big price.

And Spastic Colon scares the homeless in the same entry:

Shel's bear suit could warm quite a few homeless in San Francisco.

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