Old habits die hard with some people in the tech news game, and Weblogs Inc and Mahalo founder Jason Calacanis is going back to his roots, with a new email newsletter.
The publication, titled Launch, aims to take on TechCrunch head on with serious tech startup news, and naturally comes with an associated conference/ event.
Calacanis told Jemima Kiss at The Guardian:
“If you get people to commit to an email relationship, it’s the deepest most intimate relationship you can have online. Much deeper than Facebook and certainly more intimate than a blog,” he says.
“I want high-quality insider information, a celebration of entrepreneurship and taking risk. I want it serious and insightful rather than salacious and link-baity.”
Calacanis started his tech reporting career editing and publishing Silicon Alley Reporter, an email newsletter that covered the first web boom in New York.
