Busty Rocketboom Vlogger Canned

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With the buzzy weekend blog shakeup at Gawker occupying most of our headlines, it appears there was another high-profile new media firing, this time in the vlogosphere.

Rocketboom‘s popular vlogger Amanda Congdon was, has been, as she puts it, “unboomed” by Andrew Baron, a 51 percent stakeholder in the company.

As Gothamist notes, Congdon’s fans have been atwitter over her ousting, with some wondering if the whole thing was part of an elaborate vlog hoax.

Boom Fight, or the First Vlog-o-War [Gothamist]

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