88SLIDE, a video podcast described as The Daily One Minute Trivia Challenge, is now available on all AMP’D mobile phones.Each day, host Rachel Rhodes takes viewers to an interesting location, asks a daily info-challenge trivia question and answers yesterday‚Äôs question. Viewers that answer the trivia question correctly have a chance to win an iTunes gift […]

PodTech, a technology podcasting network, has announced that it has acquired Geek Entertainment TV, a technology video podcast. Geek Entertainment TV’s Irina Slutsky and Eddie Codel will be joining PodTech and working with Robert Scoble. “We‚Äôve been talking for a few weeks and actually signed the contracts today,” according to PodTech. “How did we get […]

Rocketboom is back, with interim host Joanne Colan. In the initial Rocketboom 2.0 episode, Colan takes the rotten tomatoes of angry Rocketboom fans with a smile and handles the host chores with style and wit. Rocketboom creator Andrew Baron, on the other hand, appears to be in a catatonic state….. Rocketboom has recently been the […]

While our first pick for the new Rocketboom host may not have panned out, it looks like the second one did. Rocketboom creator Andrew Michael Baron has confirmed Joanne Colan as the next host for the popular videoblog.We asked how he managed to find the hottest woman on the planet to be the new host […]

While Rocketboom fans wait to see the debut of Joanne Colan, the former MTV host has introduced a new blog site, JoanneColan.net.Colan signs her introduction Joanne C., Host of Rocketboom.com. Colan was originally scheduled to debut today, but a note at the site says to expect new episodes starting Tuesday, July 11th.

Pioneering blogger and podcaster Dave Winer is confirming the rumor we reported on yesterday – that Andrew Baron had chosen the hottest woman on the planet as the next Rocketboom host.”Andrew Baron confirmed via email this evening that the new interim host of RocketBoom is former MTV vj Joanne Colan,” said Winer. “He says that […]

The public split of Rocketboom co-producers Andrew Baron and Amanda Congdon is too convoluted to make much sense of and it’s starting to get ugly. Here’s a condensed version of the events that have been made public: Amanda Congdon announces she’s been UnBoomed, saying that Baron no longer wanted to be her partner. Baron said […]

While many in the blogosphere have expressed sadness over the fact that Amanda Congdon will no longer be the host of Rocketboom…..that was yesterday. Today, everybody’s speculating about who will take her place. It looks like at least one blonde, buxom and “big boned” host is ready to step into Congdon’s shoes. According to the […]

Unsubstantiated rumor alert: If Rocketboom creator Andrew Baron doesn’t decide to go for the blonde & big-boned type to be the next host, he may be settling for Joanne Colan, aka The Hottest Woman on the Planet.”Rocketboom executive producer Andrew Baron has tapped former MTV Europe VJ Joanna Colan to take the anchor chair vacated […]

Amanda Congdon today announced that she is leaving Rocketboom, the wildly popular videoblog, because ‚Äúapparently my partner, Andrew Baron, is no longer interested in being my partner.‚Äù‚ÄúI have just learned of this myself from watching Amanda‚Äôs video,‚Äù said co-creator Andrews Baron when he heard the news. ‚ÄúI guess it is in fact over.‚Äù Rocketboom, R.I.P.?Though […]