Based on the number of requests I've decided to transcribe the CalacanisCast Beta 7.... you can read the transcript below. I'm thinking about having folks (i.e. the audience) insert links in the content at the wiki. This would take some responsibility... but would be helpful. So, the idea would be to put a link on Dave's name to his blog (or wikipedia page), a link to a product mentioned on the show, etc.

I've got a great person helping me with the transcription.. he might be able to start us off with somegreat links.

best j

Jason Calacanis: Welcome to CalacanisCast beta 7:
I am here with Dave Winer the founder of RSS, OPMS...

Dave Winer: How many times are we going to do this...

Jason: I gotta do it because there are people who listen to the podcast who don't know what any of this is – so I try to be a little magnanimous about it. So...

Dave: Why don't we try this version of the CalcanisCast that we are all real jerks. No that that wouldn't come real hard to any of us, right? Based on what I've heard about all of us...
Well, not you Peter, Peter is...

Jason: Not Peter, actually. Peter is known as...

Peter Rojas: Well, I keep a low profile...

Feels like every time I turn on TV Peter is there....

Just stumbled on this one...
.... and this one (on some show called Wallstrip):

In my "what next" blog post last week I put in an inside joke about starting a gadget company with Peter designing the products. Peter picked up on it and now others are pinging me about it--but taking it seriously.

So, that leads me to the question: Could two guys in a garage create an indie gadget company?

If anyone knows what a gadget should be, and where the market is going, it's Peter. Dave Winer joked with me at dinner this past summer that Peter would make a better iPod than Steve Jobs--I think I agree. So, back to the origional question: What would it take/cost to make a gadget hardware company?

I've been to China and seen the knock-off devices (in fact, Engadget's "keeping it real... fake" covers the knock offs), so it's clear that you can make devices cheap. So, what if Peter designed a wifi-enabled media player for geeks. Like something with built in podcasting software and the ability to sync podcasts whenever and IP device is detected?

Adam Curry mentioned that someone should make a super cheap podcast MP3 player on a recent DSC.

Is this something we could actually do? What would it cost to design a media player? How many do we need to order? Who would design it? Who would built it? Anyone have insight into how to make an Mp3 player out there?

I can just imagine the "Rojas vs. Zune vs. iPod" shootout on CNET.

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I targeted three people to blog for us when we started WIN: Peter Rojas, Malcolm Gladwell, and Elizabeth Spiers. Peter signed up, Gladwell wasn't into blogging (at the time), and Spiers told me she was done with blogging. She made the Gawker brand before disappeared at New York Magazine for a while . Then she doubled MediaBistro's traffic *instantly* with her FishBowl series of blogs (you can check the Alexa charts on that one).

Now she's about to launch her own Weblogs, Inc/Gawker.. the first blog is called DealBreaker and IWantMedia interviews her about it today. In the interview she calls out Denton's publishing philosphy: "Turn up the level of harshness and make it meaner, and people will pay more attention."

Anway, if I could buy stock in a person I would buy EZSP... (insert Jim Cramer's back-up the truck sound from Mad Money).

Have no idea what this list is about... but Peter is #1 and I'm #2.

That makes sense to me. :-)

Whoa... four years later Peter starts a personal blog!

Peter Rojas is on the cover of New York Magazine this week--right where he belongs. Seeing him get such major recognition got me to thinking about my history with Peter.

One of my favorite moments came a month or two after Peter Rojas had jumped ship from Gawker to Weblogs, Inc. Nick Denton and I were having drinks and he told me that I would never be able to manage Peter. Denton then went into great details about how he couldn't manage Peter, that he was demanding, and that he would never compromise his vision.

I thought for a second and said to myself "hmmm... that sounds like a description of me."

I knew we had done the right thing in courting Peter to join WIN. The truth is Peter Rojas is one of the hardest-working and most brilliant people I've ever worked with. He's a force of nature on an individual level, but the side of him most people never see is his amazing leadership ability. Having been on *his* team at the last two CES' I can tell you that leadership is his real skill. He knows how to inspire folks to do great work--and that's much more important than being able to do great work at the end of the day.

Congrats to Peter on the cover.... I'm sure it's just the first of many.