Calacanis, Ephron discuss the Conde Nast panel
Nora Ephron gets relativistic:
Calacanis is very impressive and confident, reeling off endless thrilling acronyms and technical terms that are Greek to me. He says that what blogs are really good at is getting to the truth. He says that if Jayson Blair’s fraudulent articles had appeared on the Internet instead of in the New York Times, he would have been nailed immediately. I guess this is the case, although I can’t help but think Calacanis is missing the delicious point about truth and blogs. It’s not that the blogosphere doesn’t care about the truth, but that truth is a very limited. overrated concept, and nowhere is this more clear than on the Internet. It’s true, for example, that there was a panel discussion about blogs this morning at Conde Nast moderated by Ken Auletta, and it’s also true that certain things were said at it, much of them not picked up by my tape recorder. But what actually happened this morning? Nothing? Anything? Something? Everything?
WHEN WILL THIS MAD EXISTENCE EVER END? We get a solid thesis here:
As for Ken Lerer, he said that the Internet and the explosion of blogs isn’t really new, it’s just the next new thing to evolve, sort of like what happened two hundred years ago when people first started writing broadsides and pamphlets. I completely disagree with this … I happen to think the Internet is a cosmic, seismic, amazing change, unlike anything that’s gone before.
Personally, I see Lerer’s point, but would deconstruct this mofo thus: Blogging — and the Internet as a whole — is just one of several seismic qualitative changes in the history of information. (And it’s the first place I can write “mofo” and “deconstruct” within 50 words and actually gain respect.)
Ephron giggles at Jason Calacanis:
Jason Calacanis, co-founder of Weblogs, dressed perfectly in a pair of ripped jeans (I am not one of you) and a blazer (on the other hand, I am one of you).
She gets his name right four times, misspells it twice.
Calacanis gets the hots for Nora Ephron:
Norah seems to be a huge flirt… during the talk I was sure she was making goo-goo eyes at me while playing with her glasses and hair—dropping in a raised eyebrow or sultry smile at just the right time. What a let down to read in her column/blog post that she was probably flirting with Ana Marie Cox! Can’t say I blame her… Ana’s “I’m just blogger in my pajammas drinking all day long while poking fun at the world” is much more appealing then my “hungry media mogul from the streets of Brooklyn” vibe.
He misspells her name five times.
Then he reveals just what scary, scary hands we’re in:
Ken Auletta did a great job, including asking me who was going to buy Weblogs, Inc. I decided I would pull a Bob Dylan and make the Q&A as absurd as possible. So, when he asked who we were selling to I rambled off every major player in the space quickly, paused as he looked to me to see if I was serious, and I dropped it: “in that order.” Of course, some folks picked that up thinking it was serious… hahahaha. I love this game.
And so goes the race to become the craziest blog publisher. (Kyle, I hear, eats Cuban babies. Totally for serious.)
This entry was posted by Nick Douglas on Thursday, September 29th, 2005 at 4:00 pm and is filed under Ana Marie Cox, Del.icio.us, Jason Calacanis, Weblogs, Inc.. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
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