In what is mostly likely to be the most *douchiest* thing that has ever been written by Jason Calacanis, he now declares blogging “dead”.
The funny thing is that this particular meme has some legs under other titles, such as “the evolution of conversation”, or “the further maturation of blogging”, or “the atomization of attention”.
But [...]
There were a lot of people, who, about a year ago made a lot of noises about how Jason Calacanis’s next project, wasn’t going to work (me included). Human edited directories will never ride in this day of automated algorithmic Google-ish-ness, and paying people to do be mechanical turk behind the scenes, grinding out [...]
Looks like the A-lister brigade is out in force against the opt-in lunacy that is Facebook Beacon. Or, so it would seem, anyway, with Doc Searls, Dave Winer, and Jason Calacanis (and a few others) making some good ol’ impassioned pleas To Do The Right Thing, as this kind of default opt-in status is [...]
Update: Apparently official communications were such that Scouts were in fact told of the upcoming changes.
Some sad (or happy, depending on your point of view) news coming out of AOL this morning: they plan to scuttle Jason Calacanis’s social legacy by moving the “social” version of netscape (read: “you can vote on stories … like [...]
I was about to comment on the whole slapfest at Gnomedex, relishing in the fact, of course, that I am on the other side of the continent, and am absolutely unqualified to write about any of the high school drama going on.
However, I did stumble upon Ethan Kaplan’s blog today — the chap who was [...]
For those who follow popular tech bloggers (and I expect most, if not all of you do, if you’re reading this blog), there have been two interesting posts within the last 48 hours few days or so.
One involves Jason Calacanis who has decided to declare Facebook Bankruptcy over how many people are pinging him via [...]
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