All Points Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Some great tips on being a great PR person for your company and how to deal with the press. Few can do what Jason does, but many can do some of it. Alley Insider
Valleywag (Free subscription) | yesterday
Jason Calacanis, the Mahalo CEO and email list administrator, and Michael Arrington, editor of TechCrunch and hero to hopeless website creators, held a meetup in Menlo Park last night for finalists... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
NevilleHobson (Free subscription) | yesterday
Content summary: PR Week blog contest update; brief discussion of FIR interview with Maggie Fox and Geoff Livingston; discussion of Jason Calacanis’ post about do-it-yourself PR for startup CEOs who should fire their PR agencies; the Media Monitoring Minute from CustomScoop; Dan York’s report and a follow-up discussion about the state of Technorati; the music [...]
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
Yesterday we announced that Jason Calacanis would be interviewing serial entrepreneur, Dallas Mavericks owner and billionaire Mark Cuban at TechCrunch50. The comments were mixed, and Cuban was clearly reading. And in one case, responding. When video blogger Loren Feldman wrote “Mark Cuban is not a tech visionary. He is a lucky bastard. Broadcast.com was a [...]
The PR Lawyer (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
Jason Calacanis, a new media entrepreneur behind the Silicon Alley Reporter and Weblogs Inc., recently created an uproar in the PR industry with his blog post titled “How To Get PR For Your Startup: Fire Your PR Company.” Furia Rubel CEO, Gina Rubel, posted a response to Calacanis on both his blog as well as the Furia Rubel Communications company blog, The PR Lawyer . One excerpt from Gina’s response...
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
Mark Cuban will be joining the TechCrunch50 program on Tuesday, September 9 for a one-on-one interview with Jason Calacanis from the main stage. You probably know Mark as both the owner of the Dallas Mavericks and a serial entrepreneur who co-founded Broadcast.com with Todd Wagner. They then sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo in July of 1999 for $5.04 billion. Before Broadcast.com, Mark co-founded MicroSolutions,...
Down the avenue (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
I've been thinking quite a bit about the recent Alley Insider interview with Jason Calacanis. His advice: don't use a PR firm or an in-house veteran. He says that you don't need to spend ANY money to get amazing PR....
The Bad Pitch Blog (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
We were working on a post called, “Ode to Jason Calacanis.” It’s more of a poem really…using lots of colorful, urban language, including words that rhyme with “brother trucker.” Luckily Richard Edelman made our rant poem moot with this post.** "I am heartily sick of the ad hominem attacks and cheap shots taken by those who would try to draw attention to themselves. > snip snip Edelman shows us THE...
AdPulp (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
Coming off a nice vacation, Richard Edelman busts on Jason Calacanis and defends his chosen profession in one blogged swoop. I am heartily sick of the ad hominem attacks and cheap shots taken by those who would try to draw attention to themselves. For a guy who states that “your ability to hire people, get meetings, raise money, and form partnerships will be tied to your PR footprint,” it is just amazing...
Richard Edelman - 6 A.M. (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
I am just back from vacation and was sent a link to Jason Calacanis’ monomaniacal riff in his subscriber based email on the shortcomings of PR people, titled, “How to Get PR for Your Startup; Fire Your PR Company.” Captain...
Cup Of Joe Powell (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
"It's basically become a mudpit and it's very loud," he said of the blogosphere. In his final post, he wrote, "Today the blogosphere is so charged, so polarized, and so filled with haters hating that it's simply not worth it. " From Jason Calacanis, founder of Weblogs and CEO for Mahalo, in the Washington Post article Monday . Since I began scouring the Internet via a 9600 baud dial-up connection in...
Latest Marketing News On Marktd (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
At Marktd offices, we've noticed a backlash against the PR industry from bloggers and other web 2.0 movers and shakers. On Silicon Alley Insider, Jason Calacanis tells budding entrepreneurs that they...
The PR Lawyer (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
Silicon Alley Insider , Jason Calacanis tells readers that they should fire their PR company if they want to get PR for their start up companies . Jason tells us in the first paragraph that he’s been a journalist. That fact alone makes it much easier for him to reach out to other journalists and get media coverage. He also has something newsworthy to say when he says it. Not all CEOs know the difference...
NevilleHobson (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
Content summary: Reminder of the next FIR Live: Sept 20; PR Week blog contest update; social media focus in latest IABC podcast; Jason Calacanis’ 10 PR tips for CEOs; from Singapore, Michael Netzley discusses India’s internet market; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits - the Christy Blatchford column, how to live the [...]
SEOCentro - SEO News (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
This Washington Post piece about business blogging both perplexes and delights me. Why perplexed? It opens and closes with a case study about Jason Calacanis . While Calacanis was at the frontier of blogging for dollars-and extremely successful with Weblogs Inc-the case study talks about Calacanis's decision to dump blogging in favor of a newsletter. It simply doesn't fit with the remainder of the...
