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There’s a very interesting conversation going on about this On Scoble’s Friendfeed http://friendfeed.com/e/231bd917-aacf-479e-8a54-054c3976543e/I-just-received-Jason-Calacanis-first-email-blog/
I’m certainly not a Calcanis fan, but I don’t agree with publishing this email. It’s a fairly low move. And besides which, it just gives him more publicity.
1. Step: SEO is bullshit2. Step: Blogging is bullshit3. Step: Internet is bullshit4. Step: Technology is bullshit5. Step: Life is bullshit6. Step: Suicide.Jason, don’t jump!
Calcanis is is a genuis compared to most people in SEO and blogging. Love or hate the man, he works his audience like a maestro.
It was a very personal decision, and I understand that many of you might not understand it. However, while playing in stadiums is a thrill sometimes you feel like playing in your local cafe. I’ve been getting much deeper, one-on-one relationships with folks thanks to the emal list. 10-100 folks are asking to be signed up a day, and they are making a huge commitment. I’m making one to them as well, so you have this very virtuous cycle happening. It’s like the early days of blogging or usenet... intimate, deep, and playful. The blogosphere is great, but we all know it’s become huge and impersonal on many levels. The fact that people race to conclusions with my soundbites (i.e. "seo is a waste of time"), as opposed to actually reading the whole post/listening to the entire keynote, is the perfect example of how blogging has become shoot first, get links second, think third. Anyway, it’s been a great first week.... i’m getting 10-20% response rates on my emails and the feedback is amazing. if you want to be added to the list www.tinyurl.com/jasonslist
Why is it that people are quick to hit the Desphinn button only because its Jason Calacanis?
Might be because a large percentage of what he has written in the past was utter garbage.
Why is it that people are quick to hit the Desphinn button only because its Jason Calacanis?Jealousy?
"Why is it that people are quick to hit the Desphinn button only because its Jason Calacanis?"It’s a similar knee-jerk reaction some diggers have toward SEOs, rooted in some people’s inability to maintain more than one world view, especially if an opposing view threatens people’s pocket books. It’s a kind of entrenched thinking we see in politics on hot-button issues like Iraq, where small minds think in black and white, where people take positions based on their party affiliations, where politicians let their personal agendas define their thinking regardless of the facts.
Jill, while I don’t necessarily disagree with you I think there is more to it than that. He has a history of seeming to go out of his way to make disparaging comments towards groups to whom he is speaking. He has railed against SEOs at SEO conferences, affiliate marketers at affiliate marketing conferences, etc. He rubs a lot of people the wrong way but it usually ends up bringing more attention to himself and his efforts. In one way even if everyone hates him it ends up benefting him because he gets more attention for whatever it is he is promoting. He is great at marketing himself but that does not mean those that he has disparages will forget what he has said in the past and accept him. I did not desphinn this but I am sick of hearing about his most recent attention bait because IMO that is all it is. Jason seeking more attention for himself and his projects.
so are any of you actually subscribed to his email list? While not all of them have been great the one today is beyond stellar. It was thought provoking and informative. I’d even go as far as to say it was better than 90% of the "99 Reasons Why Twitter and Social Media Go together Like Peanut Butter and jelly" type of articles that get submitted here. But if you all would rather vote for yourselves in a self congratulatory way instead of reading an email where you might actually learn something, so be it ... desphinn away.
Jason Calacanis gets way too much attention, and I think this is hardly relevant to Sphinners.
Blossip - Oh boy, this is phunn ain’t it. Ya just gotta love that Jason guy. Whats his last name...
Sorry Dosh Dosh but in my opinion., this is not very relevant to online marketing. I still cannot get my head around why this guy is even news "worthy"
sending an e-mail instead of blogging is hardly newsworthy imo.
Paris Hilton, Viagra, Jason Calacanis - one’s inbox just wouldn’t be the same without them.