I just had breakfast with Jason Calacanis. For those who do not remember or know of Jason: nobody was a bigger mover or shaker in the New York City Internet doings(once called Silicon Alley)than Jason. He started a bi-monthly newsletter in the mid-1990s which soon became a robust, slick monthly magazine called the "Silicon Alley Reporter." He began running social gatherings and small trade shows and built his annual revenues to $12 million. The roof fell in with the 2000 Internet bust and Jason ended up taking his assets and converting them into coverage of the VC field (he later sold this business).

Now Jason is back big time with Weblogsinc. He has 73 blogs under this umbrella and offices in Santa Monica, California and New York City. Daily traffic and advertising is strong. Jason appears to have made a big comeback.

He now lives and works fulltime in California and visits his New York office monthly. He had to give up his Knicks tickets (good time to do that!), but his bulldog Taco is thriving in Santa Monica.

It was good to catch up with Jason and see a living, breathing Internet "Phoenix." With Google and now AskJeeves buying bigtime into the blog space it is only a matter of time before someone knocks on Jason's door for an acquisition.