Jason Calacanis

OK, so I know nothing about the celebrities of Web 2.0. And, I really feel like an idiot because I did not draw the connection between Jason Calacanis of Silicon Alley Reporter fame and the Jason Calacanis of Weblogs, Inc. fame. Duh! Until I read the Wired article. And then it hit me.... Jason Calacanis was the guy who opened the conference with his keynote that basically said... don't expect to make money with Podcasting! Very inspiring, we all thought. Well, then I looked back at the PME website and saw his photo. Quite a bit different than Wired's (obviously taken some time ago). Anyway, now that I read the piece in Wired, I understand a bit more where Jason was coming from in the keynote.

What if...

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Cheney's Ipod

This article popped up today...

Cheney's iPod Takes Top Priority on Extended Flight
. . . .Reporters Wait to File Stories as VP's MP3 Player Charges

J thing he is listening to Soccergirl Inc. and Dawn and Drew!

Steve Rivers has the right idea about iPods

A couple of guys from musicbiz.com did an interesting piece -sort of a two-way diaogue in print. One of them is Steve Rivers, the former director of programming for Infinity. He's got more smarts than most... and here are some comments he made about the iPod and some recent discussion about "iPod fatigue:"

Riv: I love Rick, and highly respect him, but "iPod fatigue" seems to be something he's put on his Santa wish list. Just as Bill Gates turned Microsoft on a dime and centered on its success being Internet-driven, Steve Jobs has pulled another rabbit out of his hat with the iPod, and even renaming all the Apple stores as the iTunes stores. And the Apple hits just keep comin�. The new iPod, with the ability to view videos that the geeks are calling the viPod, now opens up another new way for Apple to compete. With Disney/ABC and NBC signing up to allow their content on iTunes, and Fox and ESPN about to join in, it's refreshing to see the television industry come to the party early rather than late. There was a time when they stood their ground and allowed cable TV to seize market share; this time they seem to be saying, "We're ready to put one foot in this pool."

Mena Trott's speech was controversial????

OK - I am a relative innocent in this world of blogging. I post a few thoughts, then go away for a while, post some more. So - I may lack some of the passion that others have about this medium. But this one got me...

I am struggling to see how anything in Mena Trott's speech to the Les Blogs conference could be even termed remotely controversial. Someone who could theoretically benefit from incivility (increased sales of six apart products in an ever-escalating arms race) in the blogosphere asking for civility is about as controversial as asking someone not to sneeze on you during cold and flu season.

Give me a break - there really are some people out there who need to reassess their perspectives on things. I noted the linkback about "Currygate" on Nicholas Carr's blog and I have to concur... people are taking this way to seriously. Just deal with it. Grow up. Geesh.

To badly paraphrase Rick, in Casablanca, "none of us amount to a hill of beans on this old web..."