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I was recently listening to the RandomShapes.com podcast and something to the extent of “People in business are usually good looking, that’s why people listen to them”, was said. At first, this comment made a lot of sense to me. It wasn’t until a little bit later that I got to thinking about it. I went through the list of the world’s richest people, who all happen to be in business, and I realized that this statement is not true at all. Let me exhibit some of the world’s richest people and let you see for yourself.

Bill Gates

Larry Flynt

Warren Buffet

Donald Trump

The Sultan of Brunei

The Pope (Yes, he runs a business)

Vlogging, or video-blogging has been growing recently. With these new trends, come a few “vlogs” that are quite popular. One of the most popular vlogs is a show called Rocketboom. Rocketboom is a daily news show that used to feature Amanda Congdon.

Amanda Congdon was recently fired as the anchor for Rocketboom as she announced she was planning on moving to L.A. Rocketboom’s producer, Andrew Baron, was not very supportive of Amanda’s decision to pursue other things. She had planned on doing Rocketboom from L.A.Andrew Baron has often been portrayed in the tech-world as someone who isn’t easy to get along with. Amanda Congdon expresses her frustration with Andrew on her personal blog at http://amandaunboomed.blogspot.com

With the recent news of Amanda no longer being on Rocketboom, many rumours have been floating around about who is going to replace Amanda. Rumour has it that Joanne Colan is going to be replacing Amanda Congdon as of Monday, July 10, 2006.

I used to watch Rocketboom on and off a couple of months ago. It made it very enjoyable to watch, having such an interesting personality as the anchor. It will be interesting to see how the new anchor turns out.

The new release of Podshow+ has been anticipated by podcasters and listeners for a long time now. Podshow+ was released a couple of days ago. I had the pleasure of being a beta-tester before it was released as a public beta. I was not overly impressed with it then, and I’m not overly impressed with it now. It really isn’t anything special. It just reminds me of a professional looking myspace community.

Don’t get me wrong, I love some of the content that PodShow produces in their podcasts. However, this long awaited web-interface is nothing to be excited over. You can go ahead and check it out yourself at http://www.podshow.com, but I’m sure you’ll agree.They have been pushing off this release way too long, and when they finally released Podshow+, it was very sloppy. As mentioned by a friend of mine, Jake Billo, they didn’t even announce the launch in the pressroom section of their website. It’s almost like half of the company didn’t know about the launch.

Where are all of the public relations weasels?

What now, Adam Curry? What now? I’m fairly disappointed in the CEO, Ron Bloom, he really appeared as someone who really kept things together. He slipped on this one.

Just wanted to quickly post this ad to promote a fellow podcaster’s podcast. Be sure to check it out. There is some good talent out there.