The business divorce between Rocketboom producer Andrew Baron and anchor Amanda Congdon gets bitchier by the hour. (If you just tuned in, see Amanda's original announcement and Andrew's rebuttal.)

Video-blogging celebrity Amanda Congdon's exit from the daily Rocketboom show is getting all the blogosphere's love today. The general feel is that Rocketboom's screwed and Amanda's a golden girl.

Gawker Media's shake-up is all over TechMeme today, thanks to a well-timed New York Times profile of my boss Nick Denton (pictured here being better than you).

AOL switched Netscape.com to the new edition (the one we don't like) made by Weblogs, Inc. president Jason Calacanis and his team. One of the top stories:

As promised in Valleywag, New York Magazine profiles Jason Calacanis this week. Netscape PR asked writer John Heilemann (whose last mention of Calacanis got three days of angry e-mails from the sensitive AOL exec) to interview the man who's turning Netscape into a clone of Digg.com.

Last year, New York Magazine tech writer John Heilemann mentioned, in passing, AOL exec Jason Calacanis and his "Web 1.0 flameout." Calacanis was pissed — sure, his 90s mag, the Silicon Alley Reporter, didn't sell for much, but did Heilemann (pictured here dressed as the dot-com bubble) have to call its demise "a comforting sign that there was some justice in the world"?

Marketer and pro-blogger advocate Curt Hopkins is a good and reasonable man. Good because he's running the Blogswana project, in which students will help those affected by AIDS in Africa tell the world about their plight. Reasonable because when he asked the following Valley people — people known as good souls with a passion for world-changing technology — for financial support, he expected a few yeses and a few nos.

In the booming Silicon Valley economy, everyone's looking to buy or be bought. But not all offers are equal. How do you politely turn down a lowball without burning your bridge? Let's take a look at three turn-downs — none of which were publicly reported.

Diggsketeers! When we last left our hero, his news-gathering site Digg.com was under attack from Dr. Netscrape's AOL NegaDigg Machine (Issue #47). But help was on the way, with a new Diggmobile — the post-Crisis-on-Infinite-Earths Digg 3 (Issue #41)! Will Diggman succumb to the cosmic powers of the evil Dr. Netscrape? Or is the Power of Digg stronger than the AOL Force? While the battle unfolds, watch the superbattler stat sheet!

Oh boy, AOL's Digg rip-off is here! (That's unfair. It's more a rip-off of Social Porn.) AOL exec Jason Calacanis links to Flickr'd photos tagged "NNLaunch," where members of his "Project X" work on AOL's "Digg killer." (That's Jason's heavily rumored Netscape revival.)

Some people can't let up on AOL exec Jason Calacanis. Readers are begging for a mention of the Weblogs, Inc. founder's appearance on major podcast This Week in Tech. (One TWiT commenter wrote, "Keep that flaming drama queen off your show.") So here, instead of wasting over an hour listening, read these hastily scribbled Valleywag show notes. (If you really must hear, here's the mp3.

Blow! Blow! The tech bubble's still not big enough! Enterprising New Yorker Paul Maiorana is selling Alleywag.com, the perfect trademark infringer for Valleywag Startup Idea #2090: A gossip site about New York City's Silicon Alley (home of DoubleClick and iVillage).

Did AOL exec Jason Calacanis attend the same conference everyone else did? Because he says:

Jason Calacanis fancies himself a pot-stirrer. And the rising AOL exec really does twist more panties than a Chinese laundry. But he's a very busy man, so as an act of service journalism, here's a list of whom he's pissed off — this week.

Journos Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher had a grand time hosting the Wall Street Journal's D Conference, or at least they've learned to fake it. Reporter Dan Farber has a write-up at ZDNet, and he kindly lent his event photos. Here they are, misinterpreted.

• The New Yorker publishes a followup six years in the making — the wedding of designer Jason Kottke and Blogger co-creator Meg Hourihan. [New Yorker; Photo source: Kottke]

Blogger Tom Morris does, um, something with OPML or whatnot. But bugger that — he makes clever Silicon Valley comics like this nerdhunt:

Right. I just got around to playing last week's Gillmor Gang tech podcast. It's safe to listen.

OnHollywood, the conference held by the Tony Perkins's AlwaysOn Network that's just now wrapping up, shows the signs of a good and bad event. The good: A decent Flickr pool. The bad: A cluster on Tech Memeorandum. But the Flickr stream proves this was a missable event, or at least required a Web 2.0 Kool-Aid apéritif.

In what's probably a strategic leak from AOL, an employee reported on Jason Calacanis's Dulles and NYC office hours (held last Friday). Jason Calacanis's plans to revive the bloated corpse that is Netscape.com were passed to Valleywag, in vague and glowing terms. So to offset my constant petty mockery of the Weblogs, Inc. founder and AOL corporate blogger, here are the deets from his meetings in Dulles and New York: