Blog Veterans Nick Denton and Jason Calacanis
- Filed under: Blogger Profiles
- Date: May 22,2008
Nick Denton won’t talk to me. I’ve been after him for weeks. But the man behind the wittiest, bitchiest, most irresistible weblogs going–the gossipy Gawker and Wonkette, the gadget pageant Gizmodo, and the smut aggregator Fleshbot–is shutting me out, claiming he’s overexposed. He’s so serious about not commenting that he’s ordered his stable of blog writers not to talk to me either.
An oldie but a goodie - article about the creator of Gizmodo and his rivalry with the creator of Engadget.
Calacanis is late to the blogging game, or at least later than he was to the rise and subsequent overinflation of New York’s Silicon Alley. His strategy appears to be to exploit Denton’s weakness. Rather than paying bloggers a pittance, he’s partnering with them, letting them keep their sites and half the revenue generated by ads. His company is the Weblogs Inc. Network. Get it? WIN.
Snippets from the original article by Greg Lindsay
