Calacanis wants to rumble with Jarvis after “Internet kills networks” remark
Jason Calacanis shat out an embarrassing excoriation of Jeff Jarvis. He just ploughs into him:
I wish you would stop being such a player hater. You’ve sat around for almost three years now telling everyone how to run their companies and giving the press sound bites about how things should be. It’s really getting old dude. If you want to talk smack then you should suit up and get in the game. I got no respect for people who tell the working man how to work… especially when it’s from their ivory tower.
He’s got a point, sure, when he tells Jeff “Give me a break!” for claiming that Jeff didn’t mean Gawker and WIN when he said “The internet kills networks.” But that’s about it.
And come on, Jason, even if you were right, and Jarvis didn’t have strong media experience and a good working knowledge of the top blog networks — does a millionaire usually question an analyst’s authenticity in the following manner?
Oh please… did hurt little Jeff’s feelings?!?! Ohhh… I’m sooooo sorry!
Give me a break… the guy sits up in an ivory tower telling the world how things are and need to be and no one calls him out on the dumb stuff he says?!?! I need to sugar coat it??! I’ll do that when stops telling people what to do.
Dude, get a Myspace, please.
Jeff comments in Jason’s thread:
What do I do about blogging?
I blog.
That’s sufficient.
Time for the meds, friend. Your paranoia is showing.
I think Weblogs Inc. is a production company, not a network. Does that inspire you: Quoth the raven, “nevermind”?
Not sure about the paraphrased Poe quote there. Can we spin this as a death threat? Or a sign of insanity? Can we put these two in a room and make a reality show?
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on December 5, 2005 at 12:58 am Daniel Nicolas wrote:
Yes, while Jason’s post was a bit of a Rant, that is what sets blogs and other online publishing formats apart from the rest of the paper media federation. Blogs are fresh, raw, and uncut. There’s no stopping it. This is the way the internet works, and just because he works for AOL and just because AOL gave him millions of dollars doesn’t mean he is going to change his blogging ways.
In a way, bloggers are like kleptos - the only way to stop us is to lock us up.