Blogging Jumped the Shark?

Has Blogging Jumped the Shark?:

Wow. Jason Calacanis is leaving the blogosphere. I relate to how he feels; this stuff takes a lot of time and thought and you have to have the nerves of a stand-up comedian to keep doing it everyday. His blog was a good read and he will be missed.

I bet Jason will be back though in some manner or other and soon. After all, he is the Brett Favre of blogging

Sorry, Ted, but no.

Saying Blogging has jumped the Shark because Jason’s giving it up is like saying television is dead because the guy who’s selling Oxy-Clean at 2AM wants to do “real acting” on Broadway.

Jason never blogged. He shilled, whether it was Mahalo he was shilling or Jason. I stopped watching his act long ago; in fact, I’m amazed at how many people still follow him given the lack of any interesting content. Mahalo was the Time-Life books of the blogosphere, nothing more.

And now, after years of doing the Cal Worthington thing (a reference for you Socal folks), now he wants to be taken seriously and get personal and intimate with his readers. or something like that.

More power to him. Too bad he didn’t try that when he started. Now, at least for me, it’s a bit too late to really give a damn. He treated the blogosphere like a marketing opportunity, not a community or conversation, and now he finds what he’s doing hollow and shallow?

Gee. Count me as stunned — that he noticed.

This is like Larry the Cable guy deciding he needs to get some legitimacy and taking on King Lear. I sympathize with the intent — but I’m not going to buy tickets….

(and one of my favorite “calling bullshits” on this — Tony Hung:

Deep Jive Interests » I, Too, Call “BullShit” On Jason Calacanis:

But let me join the chorus of doubters, nay-sayers, and “haters” (who Jason calls out on as a ‘reason’ to stop blogging) in calling BullShit on his “official” reason, above.

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and anotehr good rant, from Matthew Ingram:

Jason’s long goodbye: Give me a break » mathewingram.com/work |:

is giving up blogging because he craves something more “acoustic and authentic.” That part stretches believability to the breaking point. If anything, an email newsletter is a step backwards into megaphone and pulpit land; which makes sense, I suppose, since I have a hunch Jason much prefers the one-way pulpit to the two-way blogosphere. And when Jason promoted his new email list on FriendFeed, he said it was an “insider” list and was for: “insiders only, please — no casual folks.” Seriously, who talks like that? Not even Jason could be so totally without even a stitch of self-awareness.

honestly? Jason’s convinced me he’s so full of himself that he could be that un self-aware of how he presents himself to others.

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