Amanda's ABC videoblog

Amanda's new ABC News videoblog went live today and it'll appear every Wednesday. "As I was driving to work today, I thought about just how much javascript sucks."

And Amanda says, "I am candidly chronically my experiences working with big media here."

The New York Times has a writeup: An Online Newscaster’s Appealing Bafflement. Excerpt:

Now in the warm embrace of the mainstream media, this onetime indie figure is making online video segments on eclectic subjects. And ABC is meanwhile promising its groovy young girlfriend that she won’t have change a bit, even for corporate events: no first-lady suits, no hot-roller hair, no mannequin makeup. Ever. On her first minishow, which became available yesterday on ABC’s Web site, Ms. Congdon shows up in a taut Steely Dan T-shirt and opens with her trademark girly casualness: “O.K., this is weird.”