Jason Calacanis

Weblogs, Inc., is a blog publishing venture founded in 2003 by Jason Calacanis, founder of Silicon Alley Reporter, a popular newsletter in the NY technology venture capital market. Calacanis also maintains his own blog on the system.

Presently, Weblog Inc’s blogs are mostly focused on business sectors, including the following titles:

• Blog Maverick – by multimillionaire entrepreneur and owner of the NBA Dallas Mavericks Mark Cuban
• Engadget – a digest of technical gadget news
• The Unofficial Google Weblog – news about everyone’s favorite search engine
• The Online Finance Weblog
• The Social Software Weblog
• The Outsourcing Weblog
• …among several others

Weblogs, Inc. partners with bloggers to create advertising-supported nano-publishing sites. The business posts a Corporate Philosphy which reads in part:

Weblogs, Inc. is dedicated to creating trade Weblogs (a.k.a. “blogs”) across niche industries in which user participation is an essential component of the resulting product.

. . .

Traditional journalism is, in a word, broken.

The jury is out on whether or not Weblogs, Inc. will turn blogs into a real media business, but we’re eager to find out. Rumor has it that multimillionaire entrepreneur and NBA Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has recently invested in Weblogs, Inc. Cuban also has a blog on Weblogs, Inc.

(UPDATE: Since first writing this, I spoke with Calacanis and asked him about the investment, and he was deliberately vague in answering, in one breath denying it and then suggesting might be true. I honestly don’t know what to think.)

Nick Denton’s Gawker Media is Weblogs, Inc’s closest competition as an out-and-out weblog publishing company.

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