The blogosphere is buzzing with the unexpected news that Amanda Congdon is leaving Rocketboom for the bright world of LA.

She’s already receiving job offers, including a very public and slightly creepy one from Weblogs, Inc. head Jason Calacanis:

“You’re a star baby… it’s time to be treated like one. Ask the other stars who work with me how I treat my talent and I think they’ll all tell you that I fight and fight for my people like a rabid dog. ”

Rex Hammock asks, “Does anyone really talk like this?”

Calacanis is wooing Congdon to join him at AOL:

Amanda,

I see it is true you’ve left RocketBoom.

You’re a great talent, everyone knows that, and you’re gonna get a ton of offers over the next couple of days. I’d like to give you some unsolicited advice and make you an offer as well. Above all else you need to own the rights to your work. Right now all of your archives on RocketBoom.com are not yours (I think you own 49% of them right). Someone else is going to make 51% of that money for all time and they own your work, so you have to go get their permission to use it. That’s not right for you at this point (it was OK a year ago when, frankly, you were not a big name like you are now).

You’re on the top of the talent pool on the Web and you should get compensated for what you’ve done. You don’t have a huge window of opportunity–you need to act now and you should get paid *now*. This is what I told Peter when I recruited him from Gizmodo, Elizabeth when I tried to (and failed) recruit her from Gawker, and this is the same advice I told Scoble months ago before he left Microsoft (he says my discussion with him helped him make the jump).

When you’re the talent you build brand equity, you cash in on that brand and then you take it to the next level. You are at that very moment right now.. you need to make the jump to the next level.

So, my offer to you is do your daily report for Netscape and we’ll pay you whatever you need to get paid AND you can own all of the rights to your video forever (just give us like a six month exclusive window on Netscape). We will set you up with our kick-ass studios, get you an office, and I’ve got a full-time video editor at your disposal (i.e. they can go with you anywhere). Also, we’ll set up a travel budget so you can go cover whatever stories you want.

You’re a star baby… it’s time to be treated like one. Ask the other stars who work with me how I treat my talent and I think they’ll all tell you that I fight and fight for my people like a rabid dog. (sort of like the Ari/E combo on Entourage, if you will).

You know where I’m at… hit me if you’re interested.

best regards,

Jason

While the style of Calacanis’ message may be a little off-putting, its substance shows that Congdon’s is in a good position to capitalize on the popularity of Rocketboom.