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Chris Pirillo Goes Schizo Over YouTube, Google Video and Revver

Press play at the same time on all 3 players (or as close to it as physically possible) for the optimal effect:

The Over/Under — Gawker’s TODO As The New Flavorpill/Daily Candy

Go ahead and set this one at…

Three (3) months before Gawker deploys its TODO into a Daily Candy/Flavorpill ripoff mashup.

They’ve already got the shiny graphic and the content stream needing more readers/ad inventory. They’re at least halfway there. And didn’t you hear — daily email newsletters are all the rage right now.

(Those of you looking for serious action on this, we don’t doubt that it’s out there. BetUS is probably about to roll it out — it serves as a perfect companion piece to Putting Your Money Where Your Blog Is.)

TODO [Gawker]

The Fallout from Calacanis’s Unemployment

From The Zero Boss:

Please, someone give Jason Calacanis a job, or else he’s gonna do nothing but blog his press clippings all day. That’s only a degree of pathetic away from a supermodel blogging about what she threw up for dinner. (And yes, Jason, I’m going to take full advantage of the fact that you no longer sign my wife’s paycheck. Fasten your seat belt, kid.)

Ditto that. At this rate, he’s going to (a) make us violently ill and/or (b) run out of press clippings before Thanksgiving.

Calacanis: Get A Job, You Bum! [The Zero Boss]
Now that I’m unemployed… [calacanis.com]

Calacanis Bids Adieu to AOL

Jason Calacanis has confirmed the report from Techcrunch yesterday — he will be exiting AOL. Denton predicts Jason’s next stop will be a new podcasting or wiki venture, judging by Calacanis’s own blogtalk.

Meanwhile back at AOL, some people aren’t too sad to see Jason go.

Jason Calacanis Says Adios to AOL [Techcrunch]
Blog Entrepreneur Leaves AOL [N.Y. Times]
Jason Calacanis, AOL executive, 2005-2006 [Valleywag]
Yes, it’s true…i’m leaving AOL [calacanis.com]
Bye, Jason [UltraNormal]
Cartoon: Hugh MacLeod, gapingvoid

Amanda’s Big Announcement

Congrats to Ms. Congdon on her new deals with ABC and HBO.

Everyone knew something was coming (you don’t usually sign with big talent agencies and then NOT sign deals), but who thought HBO would be in the mix? Does this mean Amanda’s got some R-rated plans in the near future?

Meanwhile back at Rocketboom, they recently notched their 10 trillionth viewer….or something like that.

Special Announcement [Amanda Across America]

There Is No More A-List, There Is Only Cory Kennedy — The Star of The Internet

via Live Footage of Cory Kennedy, “Internet It Girl” [Gawker]
Cory Kennedy [corykennedy.blogspot.com]

The Week That Was: Michael Crook’s DMCA Takedown Edition

Business 2.0 drops a Cleveland Steamer bevy of new blog titles on the chest of the blogosphere. [Business 2.0 / Gawker]

Wonkette (the site) gets a facelift. Wonkette (the redheaded former blog editor/current Time.com political editor) gets a subpoena. [Wonkette]

Michael Arrington: Giving Tony Pierce a run for his “Resident Pimp of the Blogosphere” title. [Valleywag]

Gawker’s commenters exposed! Krucoff wants demands answers! [A Blog Soup / Young Manhattanite]

Wait, the guy named Crook who looks like this is doing shady stuff? I find that so hard to believe. [Boing Boing / Fark / 10 Zen Monkeys] thanks, Scott

Just In Time For Midterms, Wonkette Redesigns

Bye-bye color and manic typewriter title treatment, hello parchment/newsprint look, with Miss Wonk stuck in the corner and italicized serif titleage. Featuring the new stretch-to-fit layout like all the other Gawker properties (except Deadspin and Consumerist).

Wonkette Redesign Spells Further Trouble for ‘06 Incumbents [Wonkette]