It seems a darn shame not to blog this, seeing as how I'm on the scene with an Internet connection.

On October 11th, Jason Calacanis of Weblogs, Inc. wrote,

On Friday I'm going to announce my first two partners for my personal podcast which I'm calling CalacanisCast. I don't need to make money from my personal podcast, but I realized that the podcast will create an amazing advertising opportunity for certain sponsors. I really don't have the time to sell the ads, so that value was going to just go away.

After announcing my plan for CalacanisCast two weeks ago I received a dozen emails offering support. Two people took out their checkbooks to host and support the podcast and their two donations will be over $100,000 for the year.

Think about that... I'm going to read live commercials for these two parties on the show, and in return they are going to give $100k to my personal charity Bay Ridge Prep. I'm on the board of Bay Ridge Prep, which is a small private school in Brooklyn that is less than 10 years old but already has 200 students. Going to school like BRP costs over $10,000 a year.

Jason just this very second announced that his partners are PodTech and GoDaddy.


Tags: Jason Calacanis, PodTech, GoDaddy, media philanthropy, podcasts