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Calacanis vs. Valleywag

November 20th, 2006

This is going to get more interesting, if you like watching a flame-war in progress (kind of like rubber-necking on the freeway).

Basically Nick Denton, the new primary blogger at Valleywag, is out for bear and his first target is Jason Calacanis, formerly of AOL, and running the “digg clone” redesign of Netscape. Anyhow, Jason recently quit AOL because of John Miller’s departure. Mr. Valleywag thinks Calacanis’ real reason for leaving is because of the drop off of traffic at Netscape, implying that the social news redesign was a failure.

Maybe so, but it’s good to take a step back and remember that Nick Denton recently took over Valleywag and therefore has his own agenda: to convince everyone that Valleywag isn’t going to start sucking even more so than it had before.

And what better way to get some attention than piss off Calacanis, always good for a response, and then get said story posted to digg (because since the story involves a “digg clone,” many diggers will automatically digg it).

Right now Calacanis has already defended himself via comments on Valleywag, and the story is at 200+ diggs. Soon, expect a response on Calacanis’ blog, a story on Techmeme, and maybe even Mark Cuban will chime in and work it into more reasons why Google shouldn’t have bought Netscape.

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  • Thanks for the nice words on my blog. The Denton-Calacanis thing is funny and dumb.

    I liked your post on the Beatles. I have a Beatles story -- actually it's a Yoko Ono story (does that count?). When I was in college I had a job in a store in NYC called "Just Bulbs" that sold... just light bulbs. One day near Christmas she came in with Sean and a couple of bodyguards and I waited on her. She bought $300 worth of christmas lights and never once took off her visor-like shades. End of story.
  • Hmm... maybe we should move this over to the Beatles post.

    That is an amusing story. Did you say anything to her?

    When I was in college I worked in a sheet music store, and David Byrne came in... he had a cowboy hat on, and an overcoat. Nobody recognized him but when he rang up his music books, I looked at his credit card which of course said "David Byrne". For the record he bought a Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys book.

    Sorry that this is totally off the subject of the Beatles thread and Jason Calacanis.

    But hey, thanks for visiting and I'll surely write a post (and proper album review) about the Beatles Love.
  • One more off-topic one, then I'll be good. Promise. I have a David Byrne story too, not as good as having his credit card in your hand, but anyway: a girl I knew once stood in a movie line in front of him years ago and struck up a conversation. She was a dance major/opera buff and knows nothing about popular music. At one point he says, "Well, I have a band." She says, "Oh really, what are you called?" He says, "The Talking Heads". She says, "No, I don't think I've heard of that. Well, good luck with it!" She knows who they are now.
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