The blog blowhard has a bad week

It's almost — almost, but not quite — enough to make us want to stop picking on him. Jason Calacanis has gotten sick, declared Facebook bankruptcy in the face of 150 pending friend requests, and turned off comments on his blog. He even expresses envy for the invite-only comments system that Nick Denton, his archnemesis and Valleywag emeritus, whipped up for his Gawker Media blogs, Valleywag included. When Calacanis thinks Denton is doing something right, you know he's really at the end of his rope. Or maybe it's just the antibiotics talking.

6:20 PM on Fri Jul 27 2007
By Owen Thomas
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Figaro at 07:45 PM on 07/27/07
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That pic of him is great... he looks like a suicide hotline poster child. .. greasy hair, bags under the eyes... lost puppy look.
Eric Rice at 02:52 AM on 07/28/07
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Hey I know... PRINT MEDIA! With like, editors & shit.
schvitzatura at 03:39 AM on 07/28/07
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Owen, please let us all know when JasCal takes up permanent residence at The Palms Hugh Hefner Sky Villa and starts doing the tissue box loafer and trucker pee bottle thingee too, OK?

The strangely obsessive-compulsive, meticulous fatblogging and Green Vibrance guzzling can only carry one so far, evidently...

Viruses rule!
$Image of Let\'s Form Voltron$ Let's Form Voltron at 07:01 AM on 07/28/07
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He hasn't twittered about his weight in some time, which makes me wonder if he's pumping the pounds back on.
hgilchrist at 08:09 AM on 07/28/07
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Get ready to see a lot of this reaction from the so called A-list bloggers as their audience jumps aboard the Facebook train.

It's unclear if the A-listers can make the jump and see the same ROE (return on effort) they saw before. Time will tell if they really can be friends with their audience and keep their attention in this new space.

Social media systems like Facebook are more personal. People go there looking for the ROI (return on interaction). Some of the A-list bloggers will see this new frontier as a massmedia platform and try to sign up as many friends as they can find. Some will strive to keep up but the majority will collapse under the pressure.

In the end, like email, the quality of the interaction with your Facebook friends/contacts will matter more then the large quantity of friends that don't really want to interact with you on a one-on-one basis.

The part of the blogosphere that protests to stay outside of Facebook and other social networks because of the interaction obligations will matter less in Facebook and old school A-list bloggers like Jason will continue scratch their heads and question why everyone outside the A-list is leaving Kansas.
JasonCalacanis at 06:56 PM on 07/28/07
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setting new fatblogging records (185/186) thanks to liquid diet for three days this week

the fog is lifting... but the song remains the same:

[valleywag.com]

social network exhaustion is reaching pandemic levels

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