Note: Some folks have been saying we do popups or popunders recently. Let me be clear: we don’t do popunders or popups.

Once and a while our ad networks like Tribal Fusion or Burst will let one slip in, but this is rare. If you ever see one send me the site you’ve seen it on and I’ll check and make sure it doesn’t happen.

Now, the New York Times does popups and blockers all day long, so I’m not passing judgement on these things. I just personally find popups/unders too much (I don’t mind the blockers for free feature stories–in fact I like them).

Engadget has this great feature called “keepin’ it real fake…” where with the help of our team in China they are finding all kinds of great fakes.

If you haven’t added MakeBot to your AIM yet do it… very slick Bot created by our old partner in crime PT who is working over at Make these days.

JBAT groks it… AIM is an amazing platform. A lot of cool things are in the works that I can’t talk about… keep your ear to the ground.

Here is the letter I just sent to ThePlanet.com about the splog that is lifting my posts. I’ll keep everyone posted on exactly how and when ThePlanet.com responds. I’m interested to see how seriously these ISPs take the issue.

Friends at ThePlanet,

The following site which you are hosting, http://www.onlinecashkings.com/, is lifting my RSS feed/content without permission. I’ve tried contacting the host for a number of weeks and they will not respond.

Your attention to this matter is greatly appreciated.

best regards,

Jason
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Jason McCabe Calacanis
CEO, Weblogs, Inc., An AOL Company.

Back in 1999 Warren St. John wrote a nice profile in WIRED… the photos came out great. Now Eryn Brown has written a nice profile and the photo is cool. For the record I was smiling for 90% of the photos–they choose a serious one.


Note: Toro the bulldog is available for hire–just talk his agent (jason at calacanis dot com).

Anyone know who this person Aaraon Witzel at Online Cash Kings is, or why he is republishing all my posts and not responding to my emails asking him to stop? I agree with Om… splogs are out of control.

How do we stop these people?!?!

OK… rollcall…. who’s going to CES?

Just got myself a 60GIG Video iPod for Festivius… what video podcasts should I subscribe to?

More on folks Hacking AIM… can someone create and Engadget AIMBot?!?! oh wait… we work for AOL.. .we can do this ourselves… right?
http://www.thensr.com/article.asp?ID=29

This is very nice… someone made a list of the top 10 podcasts of 2005 and my visit to the Web 2.0 show is #8.

#8: Jason Calacanis on The Web 2.0 Podcast – Jason Calacanis is a riot. Those of you who heard his keynote at the Portable Media Expo know what I’m talking about. Calacanis is both funny and blunt and never lacking for an opinion. His interview on the Web 2.0 Podcast is a prime example of this. He covers a lot of ground including LAN parties, Technorati bombing and of course the recent acquisition his company, Weblogs Inc., by AOL. I’d love to hear a lot more from Calacanis. Since he has a little more time on his hands these days maybe he’ll start podcasting?

Oh yeah… part two of the interview is here:
http://www.web20show.com/articles/2005/11/30/web-2-0-show-episode-7-2-jason-calacanis