{"id":135,"date":"2005-12-31T10:11:15","date_gmt":"2005-12-31T15:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/index.php\/2005\/12\/31\/jason-mccabe-calacanis-bubble-20\/"},"modified":"2005-12-31T10:11:15","modified_gmt":"2005-12-31T15:11:15","slug":"jason-mccabe-calacanis-bubble-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2005\/12\/31\/jason-mccabe-calacanis-bubble-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason McCabe Calacanis = Bubble 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Does the fact that Jason Calacanis — of Weblogs Inc.<\/a> — is successful again mean that we’re in another Web bubble? For many people in Silicon Valley in the late 1980s, Jason was a dot-com poster boy, as a profile in Wired points out<\/a>. He built a photocopied and hand-delivered gossip sheet into an industry-leading magazine, and also had a reputation for throwing lavish parties. (Wikipedia has the abbreviated version<\/a> of his bio).<\/p>\n

Now, Jason works for AOL, which paid an estimated $25-million for his network of about 80 blogs. While that seems like a large enterprise, only a dozen or so of those blogs — such as Engadget.com and Joystiq.com — appear to get much traffic, and according to the Wired article the company had about $1-million in advertising revenue when AOL bought it. As the piece notes, “it’s not clear that $25 million is a sane amount for 10 disconnected employees and a network of bloggers who could jump ship at any moment.” That’s putting it mildly.<\/p>\n

In typical Calacanis fashion, he isn’t content to bask in the glory of a bubble-style takeover of his company — he’s convinced that he could become chief executive of AOL if he wanted to (an idea that, sadly, might not be as much of a stretch as it should be). Paul Kedrosky gives Jason props for bouncing back from his first popped bubble<\/a>, but others will likely see his return as evidence that the bubble mentality is back with a vengeance.<\/p>\n

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Does the fact that Jason Calacanis — of Weblogs Inc. — is successful again mean that we’re in another Web bubble? For many people in Silicon Valley in the late 1980s, Jason was a dot-com poster boy, as a profile in Wired points out. He built a photocopied and hand-delivered gossip sheet into an industry-leading … <\/p>\n

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