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  • Rocketboom

    UnBoomed: Rocketboom hires host from MTV

    By Nick Douglas, 6:17 PM on Fri Jul 7 2006, 285 views (Edit, to draft, Top, Slurp)

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    Joanna Colan - ValleywagIt only took Rocketboom producer Andrew Baron a week to replace host Amanda Congdon. And, as Amanda accused, he's so old media — new anchor Joanna Colan is an ex-MTV Europe VJ. Huffington Post's media blog, Eat the Press, reports the story but admits that Andy won't confirm the hire. He does confirm that Rocketboom goes back on the air Monday.

    BREAKING: New Rocketboom Girl Chosen, Looks Strangely Like Old One [Eat the Press]

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    How daddy's money paid for Andrew Baron's Rocketboom

    Here's a story far more interesting than anything you'll watch on YouTube: A prodigal scion of a wealthy family, pitted against his powerful father and an ambitious blonde. More »
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    Vanity Fair displays new media acumen with "Blogopticon"

    In a wonderful piece of linkbait, Vanity Fair produced an illustration featuring a number of popular "blogs" arranged in a cartesian graph from "Scurrolous" to "Earnest" on one axis and "Opinion" to "News" on another.

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