Source:Valleywag
Always the charmer, Jason Calacanis has announced plans to visit the press lounge at CES. His barking continues to amuse. But here’s something that’s no laughing matter: Why is the CEO of a search engine, a legitimate object of news coverage, allowed access to the private press lounge at CES?
Sure, Calacanis has a blog. But so does Jonathan Schwartz, the CEO of Sun Microsystems, and I don’t think he’d be allowed in the press lounge, where he could overhear reporters’ confidential plans for coverage of his business rivals and partners. I trust my peers in attendance at CES will make their views known when Calacanis shows up — hopefully in Brooklyn language he might understand.
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Source:Valleywag
Silicon Alley Insider’s Peter Kafka lavishes praise on Quincy Smith, CBS’s hyperactive interactive dealmaker. The ostensible reason? A well-executed deal between Digg and CBSNews.com, designed to avoid offending the fragile feelings of the social news site’s oversensitive communities. Forget all that. The real reason? Kafka has a massive mancrush on Smith — as does just about every other tech reporter I know. Smith is witty, adorable, and just geeky enough for us to relate. He’s also got an open pocketbook to buy Web properties, which makes him a font of story-generating deal rumors. But he’s mostly adorable. Oh, those eyebrows!
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