Jason Calacanis Puts His Fingers on It

Discussing trends in social media, the ever-present Jason Calacanis saw a half-empty glass last Friday at his PR Online Convergence 07 luncheon keynote in Los Angeles. Among the topics he addressed:

• Microsoft giving bloggers free laptops running Windows Vista
• The PayPerPost mother who goaded her kids to take a hammer to a digital camera because it wasn't built by HP
• Edelman creating astroturf blogs for Wal-Mart
• The price Wal-Mart is paying for selling Nazi T-shirts
• The fake blog from McDonald's
• User-generated anti-SUV videos submitted to a General Motors contest
• Microsoft paying someone to edit a Wikipedia entry

The attendees, mostly social media neophytes, were aghast -- partly at Jason's cockiness and partly at how maybe, just maybe, the Emperor might not be fully dressed.

Comments

[vaspers the grate]

Jason Calacanis is the real deal, and continues to impress me with his experimental, one might venture capital to say, Art Forum-ish innovation, Twittering instead of blogging.

I aespecially like his hatred for PayPerPost blog whoring and coached compensated opinion that breaks or pollutes the trust web.

[vaspers the grate]

Now he's "blogging" exclusively at del.icio.us for a week. I joined up just to keep up with him.

CalacanisCast, a podcast I listen to all the time, is burned to CD for my physical offline archives.