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Amanda Congdon, the former co-producer and host of Rocketboom, a popular video blog, left the site this week after a dispute with producer-director Andrew Baron. The news of Congdon's departure - which she announced, in Star Jones-like fashion, in her own vlog - has set the blogosphere abuzz. Now Rocketboom fans are watching the first video blog from her replacement, former MTV Europe News VJ Joanne Colan. TIME's Catherine Sharick talked with Congdon about her feud and her future...
...they can be more dangerous than old-school chat rooms. The reason: in chat rooms, predators have to engage in conversation to get to know people. But on sites like MySpace, they can access gobs of information by reading users' profiles, which tend to include photos as well as blog entries and bantering with friends. "It's totally addictive," Hannah Kranz, 16, says of MySpace. "My cousin gave it up for Lent." Kranz, who lives in Ferndale, Wash., says she interacts only with users she already knows offline and feels secure because, as she explained to her parents, the site...
...Subject narcissstically Googled self, and ceased when he came across unflattering remark on friend Josh Peterson's blog about his recent "nails-on-a-chalkboard" karaoke rendition of Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy." (N.B.: Our mole was present at the performance, and confirms that the subject's tone-deaf singing was "excessively painful" and "should be forbidden by the Geneva Conventions...
...Republicans to supporting a law to ban flag-burning, all part of a shameless attempt to move toward the political center for a possible presidential run. Her consistent support for the Iraq War has them positively apoplectic. In a May survey of 14,000 readers on the popular liberal blog Daily Kos, the New York Senator finished fifth among potential presidential contenders, earning only 2% of the vote; first was Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold, who has opposed the war from the beginning, with...
...attention they get from potential President candidates, are often ignored in Washington for the same reason their champion Howard Dean is: they haven't won anything. In 2004, Daily Kos aggressively pushed and raised money for 15 congressional candidates; all of them lost. (To be fair, the blog got involved in some of the campaigns because they were long shots.) "If I had their record, I wouldn't be eating right now," said one veteran Democratic consultant about the bloggers. In November, some of the bloggers' favorites, such as Senate candidate Jon Tester in Montana and Darcy Burner...