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It's with a heavy heart, and much consideration, that today I would like to announce my retirement from blogging. |
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Jason McCabe Calacanis, July 11th 2008.
Jason Calacanis, CEO of Mahalo.com, the human powered search engine, previously co-founder of Weblogs, Inc. with Brian Alvey, and the GM of Netscape, retires from blogging.
OK, it sounds like a drama. I mean a parodie of drama. But it seems that's it is "the reality".
Well, not really. In fact what happens is not clearly what it seems. Jason Calacanis announced that he would be posting to a mailing list made up of his followers. Between 750 to 1,000 happy few.
Is this the return to the ancient "confidential letter", almost forwarded clandestinely? Wow.
I have carefully read his "announcement" and his first email to his
mailing list -- don't laugh, oh well, you can, republished by Techcrunch.
I've never been a big fan of Calacanis' style and
the feeling of unease when reading his words is always
unpleasant. Though usually, I greatly appreciate sense of humour and poker players.
Really, who can believe that pressure, if hard to cope with, will decline with a mailing list, more when it is republished in other blogs?!? And
I do not even speak about the so-called choice of "intimacy" via email ... what's
the difference between publish in an Emailing tool manager to 1, 000
subscribers and publish in a blog? Feedback and comments via email with Jason Calacanis ? Let me allow me a LOL.
A cunning and clever grocer would say Calacanis
organizes the shortage. Provided that there is demand for the offer of
Jason Calacanis. Count me out.
So, why am I talking about it? Just to say, Ho please, Techcrunch, if the text you have republished is not a farce, let him with the happy few, don't republish his newsletter! And even if it is a farce! Candidates to be loud-hailer will be sufficiently numerous in the closed circle of the mini calacanist Agora.
The only parallel I see is that so far, we have politicians who engage in
blogging and not yet bloggers who engage in political responsibilities.
When the day comes, let's ensure that they've got a bearable ego -- not hiden behind a pseudo sense of humour -- and more than this, that they bear blogospheric rules pressure ;-)
Buzz me once, shame on you! Buzz me twice, shame on me!
Update from Geek and Poke -- you know the genius who can say in 2 lines and a draw what I badly explain in a boring page.
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