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drama

Commenters Take Over Internet, Run Bloggers Out on Rails

Internet person Rex Sorgatz put the pieces together—the New York story on the mean Brownstoner commenter, the Times story on commenters running the asylums, and finally last week's Time piece that was kinda-sorta in defense of anonymous nastiness. Commenters are a trend! Everyone is basically terrified of them! And this weekend, former blog entrepreneur Jason Calacanis up and quit the internet. Or, at least, he quit blogging. And started a private email list! Which is basically the definitive proof that the War is Over and the Commenters Won. More »

3:50 PM on Mon Jul 14 2008
By Pareene
2,346 views, 74 comments

Latest by swizzard: It's not like inviting a homeless drunk to review your carnegie performance, it's busking on the subway at rush hour. If you didn't crave the attention and validation of hundreds of complete strangers, you'd have a DIARY. So shut up. more »

print is dead

Newspaper Co Buys Blog for Big Bucks

This... is odd. UK newspaper company Guardian Media Group just bought a blog! For more than $30 million! (To be fair, that's like 10 million quid now probably, but still.) The blog is paidContent; it covers dry internet media news and chronicles lots of important business-y stuff involving "digital media." It's a very nice site, but $30 million? While media stocks tank? For a site whose revenue comes from, like, bankers making money off media deals? Ok, Guardian! It's your money! But there's more good news: this deal will annoy Jason Calacanis! More »

12:10 PM on Fri Jul 11 2008
By Pareene
594 views, 6 comments

Latest by n/a: Unless that was another Web site. My apologies paidContent. more »

tumblrcore

Scientists Perfect Indie Movie With Least Possible Appeal Ever

Wait, how did we miss this Sundance pick? It's called August. It's about a the wild life of a would-be Silicon Alley dot-com entrepreneur—in 2001! In August of 2001! The Times description makes it sound positively irresistible:
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4:22 PM on Thu Jan 24 2008
By Pareene
4,733 views, 57 comments

Tubby Internet dynamo Jason Calacanis is the Oprah of the fatblogging revolution. [LAT]

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core principles

Steve Jobs May Be Hazardous To Your Job

PC World editor Harry McCracken has resigned from that publication after its new CEO spiked a story about Apple mogul Steve Jobs. According to Wired, CEO Colin Crawford "also told editors that product reviews in the magazine were too critical of vendors, especially ones who advertise in the magazine, and that they had to start being nicer to advertisers." The future of magazines is here! And it looks just like the future of the internet, not unexpectedly. Yesterday, Gawker's Evil Ad Overlord Chris Batty killed our hilarious list of the ten most annoying things about Jason Calacanis and told us we'd better start talking up those really nice Diesel Denim Gallery jeans which are available at a Diesel store near you right now or we'd be out on our ass. Because we're virtue-shy wusses, we sucked it up, but it's nice to see that some people still have integrity. —balk More »

12:05 PM on Thu May 3 2007
By abalk2
952 views, 9 comments

Latest by schvitzatura: Meebe Calcifiedcanis would ad arbitrage for Snorg level listings...put him on a rotation with the snaggle toothed wonder that is the Snorg Grrl. more »

jason calacanis

Let Jason Calacanis Make YOU A Famous Blogger

Dear Blogger, More »
media

Media Bubble: Private Parts

  • Guy who told Murdoch to buy MySpace quits. [Guardian]
  • Private equity firms love them some media conglomerates. Latest example: ClearChannel, the company that has spent the last decade making sure radio sucks, which was snapped up for a kajillion dollars yesterday. [NYT]
  • Energetic new media entrepreneur out at AOL. [Valleywag]
  • WSJ employees will not be allowed to wear shorts no matter how much they piss and moan about it. [NYP]
  • Those who aren't getting fired by NBC are leaving voluntarily. [NYT]
  • Marketwatch rewrites Jack Shafer's Digg story a scant five months later. [Marketwatch]
  • Dave Zinczenko, whose name will forever be associated with subpar oral sex, rides the Borat wave. [NYP]
  • The English: "paedophiles, drunkards and hooligans." Sorry, this is news to whom? [Guardian]
  • Why can't the Times be fun like the Drudge Report? If you guessed Jon Friedman, you read this feature way too often. [Marketwatch]
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    9:10 AM on Fri Nov 17 2006
    By abalk2
    104 views, Comment

    teen people

    Jason Calacanis Poaching Form Letter: Advice and an Offer for the Staff of Teen People

    I see it's true you've left Time Inc. More »
    internet

    Jason Calacanis Sells Bloggy Empire to AOL

    We're really proud of Weblogs Inc. co-founder Jason Calacanis. He stopped videocasting from his flights just long enough to sit down and sell his company (a blog network of 80 sites with advertising) to AOL for a reported $25 million. Not too shabby! And God bless him for it — after he held on to his Silicon Alley Reporter publishing venture a bit too long and consequently got bit in the ass when the 90's bubble burst, we'd genuinely shed tears if Calacanis made the same mistake again. But our faith in the dorkier side of mankind is thus restored as, for now, no one is that stupid (knock on wood). Lesson learned; sell yourself while you can! More »

    12:20 PM on Thu Oct 6 2005
    By Jessica
    273 views, 4 comments

    Latest by Ron Mwangaguhunga: And I was just talking to him yesterday at the We:Media conference. Good for him. more »

    venture reporter

    Venture Reporter buyout

    A coda and perhaps a warning for Rising Tide Studios/Venture Reporter founder Jason Calacanis, whose company was recently purchased by Wicks Business Information: a venture capitalist writes in, "we looked at a buyout of Wicks...last year. The deal fell apart because of misleading and inconsistent internal financials."

    8:49 AM on Mon Apr 14 2003
    By Gawker
    31 views, Comment

    venture reporter

    Venture Reporter bought out

    Rising Tide Studios, parent company of Venture Reporter, Digital Coast Reporter and the now-defunct Silicon Alley Reporter has been bought by Wicks Business Information. Rafat Ali writes that Rising Tide Studios head Jason Calacanis "plans to keep the Silicon Alley story alive, with a book: 'I'll be contacting all of you for your recollections when I write the The SAR Story in another four years (the book is planned for 2006... ten years after Silicon Alley Reporter was launched),' wrote Calacanis, in his e-mail. Yawn."
    Enhanced silicon: Venture Reporter bought out [PaidContent.org]

    12:10 PM on Sat Apr 12 2003
    By Gawker
    68 views, Comment

    crain's ny

    Rising Tide Studios for sale

    Crain's NY reports that Jason Calacanis is putting Rising Tide Studios (the parent company of Venture Reporter) up for sale and considering filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Crain's also notes that Calacanis is working with the Recognition Group, presumably to develop a turnaround plan. If you lived or worked in Silicon Alley between 1995 and 1999, you're probably already smirking, but for those of you that don't recognize the Recognition Group, it's the turnaround firm headed by ex-govWorks CEO, Kaleil Isaza Tuzman—he of Startup.com fame. (He also of "I spent $60 million of Henry Kravis's/Mayfield's money on my company, couldn't turn it around, and ultimately sold the assets for $2.5 million" fame.)
    Tech media firm for sale [Crain's]

    11:40 AM on Mon Jan 27 2003
    By Gawker
    87 views, Comment

    jason calacanis

    Calacanis Tae Kwon Do

    Silicon Alley casualties may like to work out some of their frustration by taking this martial arts class. Jason Calacanis was editor of the Silicon Alley Reporter, the defunct journal of the defunct New York internet scene. Aside from a bit part in Wayne Wang's last movie and a fondness for Bikram Yoga, Calacanis also teaches Tae Kwon Do on Mondays at 19.30. Email him if, after the internet bust, you want another beating.
    Calacanis.com

    1:28 PM on Wed Jan 15 2003
    By Gawker
    56 views, Comment