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Gnocchi, featuring "orange rescue" is one of the greatest shows from Crash Test Kitchen, a brilliant Aussie video blog about cooking.
They write: "We're Waz and Lenny, a couple of foodies with a digital video camera. No, we're not chefs, we just love to cook, eat, drink, and have a laugh! You won't find any of that "here's one we prepared earlier" stuff here - we make mistakes, sometimes in spectacular fashion, and the failures get posted along with the success stories. Call it a food video blog, a cooking video blog, cooking vlog, food vlog, reality cooking or whatever ... we're just out to have fun!"
And by the looks of it, they are having a lot of fun.
The Rocketboom video blog is on hiatus and hopes to relaunch on July 10 with a new presenter. While Amanda Congdon says on her Amanda UnBoomed blog that she was forced to leave the partnership, of which she owned a 49 percent stake, and is currently living in Connecticut, Rocketboom claims that she has left to pursue an acting career. CNET interviewed Congdon at San Francisco's Vloggercon in June. She hinted then that she was drawn to acting.
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Amanda Congdon's surprise departure from the show has caused quite a buzz in the blogosphere. But the news also shined a spotlight on both the perils and potential of video blogging. Will v-blogging do to network television what blogging did to mainstream media? Join Charlie Cooper, Michelle Meyers, Jim Kerstetter and Daniel Terdiman as they debate all the angles in this week's edition of the CNET News.com Roundtable.
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Mario master reveals Nintendo's secrets to success
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