Enemies List: Denton vs. Calacanis

We’re too close to this to do any actual commentary** but the Anonymous Tips barrage has, we suppose, reached a critical mass. If you’re interested in blog warfare and graft issues related to blogs, Gawker media’s Nick Denton and Weblogs, Inc.’s Jason Calacanis are lobbing virtual grenades at each other over whether bloggers should be allowed to take junkets. We’d much rather see Conde Nast and Hearst lobbing grenades at each other over whether highly paid journalists should be allowed to take junkets, and the commercial blogosphere is irritatingly similar to academia—tempests, teapots, small stakes (microscopic, even)—but some of you care about this stuff or we assume you wouldn’t have Anonymous Tipped us those 347 times. (Jason, is that you? Nick?) So here you go:

Jason’s original post: Gizmodo sells out to Siemens
Nick’s response: Calacanis transparency policy
Our thoughts: …. [silence...*crickets chirping*...more silence]…

** Requisite disclosure, before I type the words “Denton” or “Calacanis” anywhere. Denton’s my ex-publisher—I was the founding editor of Gawker.com—and before Gawker launched, I interviewed for an editor job at Calacanis’s old publication, Venture Reporter, which I did not get. Since then, Calacanis has offered me various blogging jobs and I’ve turned them down.

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