Nano (hype) wars

Jason Calacanis of Weblogs Inc h as poached one of Gawker Media’s writers, Pete Rojas of Gizmodo to staff what Nick Denton describes as a “slick copycat site”. A relatively new comer to the blogging for money word Jason Calacanis has been aggresively promoting his new suite of sites in the blogsphere in a wave of weblog hype, some of which Bill Turner of Weblog Hype (not to be confused with the Blog Herald) has commented on: “Oh man, please give me a little of what Jason Calacanis is smoking!”