Amanda Congdon's days with Rocketboom, the pioneering video blog, ended the way they began: in front of a world map. On July 5, Congdon announced in a video that she produced and released on her own site that she and Rocketboom co-founder Andrew Michael Baron were parting ways.
It's a sharp reversal for Rocketboom. And it's bound to raise questions about the viability of video blogging as a sustainable business. After it emerged online in October, 2004, the daily mock news show became the posterchild for video blogging and its potential to recast what we think of as television. The blog regularly draws 250,000 people each day. ...
Now, the fate of Rocketboom is very much up in the air. (More.)