Blogs Vs. Journalists: 'I Don't Need Wired...'
Venture capitalist and former Weblogs Inc. CEO Jason McCabe Calacanis blogs that a WIRED journalist who requested an interview REFUSED to do it by e-mail, insisting on doing it by phone. In the blog post, Calacanis wrote "I have 10,000 people come to my blog every day -- i don't need wired to talk to the tech industry." Ouch! Meanwhile WIRED blogger Dylan Tweney JUMPED to the defense of the still unknown reporter (unknown to me, anyway), sarcastically mocking Calacanis' suggestion that the WIRED reporter was behaving like a Luddite for insisting on the phone -- and calls Calacanis "cowardly" for refusing a phone interview. (Weblog Inc. publishes Engadget and other popular blogs.) Who's right? Who's wrong? (Please comment!)
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Jason isn't at Weblogs, Inc., AOL, Blogsmith anymore. He's with Sequoia.
Thanks. I'll correct it.
i think that Calacanis is a bit out-of-touch by declining a telephone call interview but the interviewer was short sighted to even suggest it. I think they're both partly at fault.
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