my favorite jason calacanis quotes
"The second you edit the bloggers it's over."
"We're all outsiders in this. That's what drew us to blogging."
On blogging for the company you work for: "Our bloggers give them the sauce." [EG] I love the idea of criticism being the same as ladling fat on top of someone else's plate.
"If your blog isn't working - look inside yourself - you could write intelligent comments on people's blogs and do 1 post a week - everyone would know who you are." [EG] Again, I hang my head in shame at the comment situation having decayed so badly in my own blog.
The good news "We created a beautiful place where integrity and authenticity matters." Then the bad news on pay per post and not disclosing the relationship "That's not innovative - that's lying." And then the resulting debate "You can be intellectually dishonest when you debate..." because pay per post claims in their own defense they are a marketplace where people are asked to lie regarding requiring only good reviews.
On podcasting working "I'm listening to more radio now than I ever have - without turning on a radio."
On what Napster attempted and failed, and what YouTube pulled off "I give them credit for threading the needle." [EG] What a great term! Is it a new one? Synopsis on how to thread the needle (in this context):
- Place a bunch of content up there
- Worry about how to make money about it later
- At the earliest opportunity, remedy the fact that your content may not have been legit. YouTube remedied this by including license holders (content folks) in the purchase of their company.