Two major news outlets run full stories on the Congdon-Baron split at Rocketboom today, demonstrating that this story is more than blogger gossip.

Former Rocketboom anchor Amanda Congdon raised the tension in her professional split with producer Andrew Baron last night with a lengthy blog post titled "For the record." After making her case in the intro, the popular vlogger publishes an entire letter from Andrew to her, with the responses she'd sent to him.

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.)

In its latest episode, the video blog GeekBrief.TV leapt into the escalating battle between Andrew Baron (producer of popular vlog Rocketboom) and Amanda Congdon (the show's former anchor). In the video (shown below), GeekBrief host Cali Lewis reads an e-mail from Baron and publishes Congdon's initial video announcement. Cali manages to explain the situation without picking a side.

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.

Rocketboom producer Andrew Baron says he didn't fire the video blog's anchor, Amanda Congdon. She quit, he writes in a forum post, after a week where "everything has been up in the air." He only found out by watching her video announcement.

Can the most high-profile video blog in the U.S. stay popular without cheerful, friendly, smokin' hot host Amanda Congdon? We're about to see — the Rocketboom host informed the world today that producer Andrew Baron let her go. Is this an overdue change, or another sign that vlogging is just lame TV?

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.

The subjects of yesterday's SF Chron story on video blogging come from all over. Some are nearly mainstream, some known only to hundreds. But everyone in the piece falls into one of two major categories: