Rocketboom host Congdon signs with ABC

Just a few days ago, we reported that online video blog Rocketboom's former host Amanda Congdon had signed a development deal with HBO. Well, while she's raking in the premium cable dough, she'll also be broadcasting on ABC as a contributor to the network's digital channel ABC News Now. She'll make occasional appearances on ABC's televised news programs and will be making a weekly video blog for abcnews.com on new media, political and environmental subjects.

Congdon may be the first "cewebrity" to land a deal with a major network, but she's just one of many to use the internet as a launching pad to wider fame. United Talent Agency's Digital Talent Agency has already signed Hosea "Ze" Frank, host of The Show with Ze Frank, and Kent Nichols, co-creator of the Ask a Ninja video blog.

Disclaimer: I'd like to state that my use of the word "cewebrity" in this post is in no way an endorsement of the term. The word "cewebrity" was cited purely in reference to the Business Week article that served as this post's main source. For the record, this is the first time I've heard the word, and I'd say I loathe it about as much as I loathe the word "blogebrity," the phrase "baby bump" and the smashing together of celebrity names to come up with a couple's moniker (ie Bradgelina). I can only hope that the term "cewebrity" does not become part of our modern-day vernacular and will make no attempt at bucking for entrance into the Oxford English Dictionary anytime soon.