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Calacanis at the Blog Business Summit

October 27, 2006 |

There will be some really light blogging from me over the weekend, but I just wanted to point out this post and conversionrater.com, which does a great job summarizing Jasan Calacanis’ keynote speech at the Blog Business Summit.

My two favorite quotes:

This led into complaints about PayPerPost, who he thinks is bad for the blogosphere. He compared blogging to a beautiful Main St. that we’ve all built, and PayPerPost is coming in and pissing on our street. An interesting visual. The point was that they are covert and he believes that authenticity is important for the blogosphere.

Calacanis then went into a tirade that was quite amusing about “A-list blogging” and the complaints from people about how it’s bad for the blogosphere. He said all you have to do is look at the top stories on TechMeme, say something intelligent about the story, link to the other five top bloggers talking about it, and do that for 30 days straight, then you’ll be an A-list blogger. Those that write one post a week, and hope to achieve something, frankly just suck. Then people complain to him that Engadget and Gizmodo “control” the gadget blog world, but if your gadget blog is ranked #67 in gadgets, there’s probably a reason. Your gadget blog sucks.

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  1. Shan on October 27, 2006 12:32 pm

    http://blog.payperpost.com/2006/10/i-love-loren.html

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