Last week Jason Calacanis made a public departure from blogging. Now he will not write articles on his blog, rather he is moving his “blogging” to a private email list. He has already written his first email post. He said, “Today the blogosphere is so charged, so polarized, and so filled with haters hating that it’s simply not worth it. I’d rather watch from the sidelines and be involved in a smaller, more personal, conversation.” He has been regularly writing articles on his blog for more than five years. In India, very few people know about Jason Calacanis. So let’s discuss his profile, business and innovations. He is an American internet entrepreneur and blogger.

In 1996 he started a publication house known as the Silicon Alley Reporter. Initially it was a 16-page photocopied newsletter, as its popularity grew it expanded into a 300-page magazine, with a sister publication called the Digital Coast Reporter for the West Coast. As a result of this success he became the “yearbook editor” of the Silicon valley. He did all these businesses under the banner of company Rising Tide Studios.

But his company couldn’t survive the dot com bubble burst so he sold his company Rising Tide Studios to Dew Jones & company. Then he co-founded Weblogs, Inc. with Brian Alvey which they finally sold to AOL for about 25 million USD. At present he is the CEO of Mahalo.com, a human powered search engine.

Still I am confused why he has left blogging? David Risley, the founder of PCMech.com says those of us who are into tech blogging probably realize by now that this is a very saturated field. There are a lot of tech bloggers out there and it is hard, if not impossible, to find a unique angle to a story. But is it the reason? What do you think?

One thing is damn sure, he will definitely miss his blogging, relationships with fellow bloggers, readers, great friends that he has made over the large span of five years and last but not the least the comments made by his readers. Hold on, this is not my opinion. Jason also thinks like that. Let’s conclude this post with Jason’s comment on his retirement from blogging.

I am very proud of the success that we have had in blogging and I leave the game with few regrets