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Join Us Friday June 20th for BlogWorld Radio Our Guest Will Be Bob Cox of the Media Bloggers Association

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  • Posted on June 19th, 2008 by User ImageRick

***Update 10:09 pm PST****
The link below now points to the archived interview Jim Turner and I conducted with Bob Cox today. A very interesting discussion and I encourage you to listen to the whole thing and share your thoughts in the comments below.
The Media Bloggers Association has posted an update here.
Join Jim Turner, me and [...]

If ARS Technica is Worth 25 Million What is Huff Po Worth?

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  • Posted on May 17th, 2008 by User ImageRick

Just about two months ago 24/7 Wall Street included ARS Technica in their 25 most valuable blogs list and set the price market price at $15 million. If today’s reports of ARS Technica’s sale to Conde Nast are true the price was actually $25 million. That’s a 66% increase over 24/7’s valuation. Does that [...]

Jason Calacanis is Right about Start ups.

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  • Posted on March 9th, 2008 by User ImageRick

lot’s of people like to hate on Jason and he loves it. If you haven’t figured it out yet Jason is a master of link baiting and this latest post is another classic example. I have only met Jason three times in very short and casual conversations. I have seen him give three keynotes. Two [...]