What the Sam Hill is going on with Rocketboom?

I sometimes fall into the trap of accepting news at face value. But now thanks to Wired, it looks there's split points of view behind Amanda Congdon's leaving of Rocketboom. So, dear reader, I'll give you a choice.

Choice one:

The Rocketboom site--post Amanda.

and

Choice two-with two parts:

1. Amanda's blog: Unboomed.




2. Amanda's video statement from Unboomed.

Most journalists know through training and experience a lot of filtering takes place to report the facts. In the case of the Rocketboom, opinions and hypocritical statements have to be removed.

I believe Amanda makes her point--convincingly. Furthermore, because of her RB experience, I think she will have the networking resources available to her to start Vlogging again and to report intelligently on our beloved Internet culture.