With all due respect to Jason Calacanis, he has made his selling Weblogs to AOL...I get that. However, I honestly think that he doesn't understand the way media

With all due respect to Jason Calacanis, he has made his selling Weblogs to AOL...I get that. However, I honestly think that he doesn't understand the way media is changing. It's not about the 'few' large content creators anymore - it's about the millions of little content creators. The search engine business has not been commodotized, the content business has. Sharing revenue with 'certain' content creators doesn't scale like paying the top digg users to submit content on Netscape doesn't scale. I am not one of those that thinks that paper and ink will go away, I just think that the model is going to change drastically. Weren't the lawsuits and withholding of 'professional content' from YouTube supposed to kill YouTube some years ago? What happened to that? Yes, Hulu is a nice destination, but wasn't that also supposed to 'kill Google'? Whenever I see Mark Cuban agreeing with Calacanis on some crazy tirade (http://blogmaverick.com/2009/11/09/rupert-murdoch-to-block-google-smart-twitter-has-changed-it-all/ http://blogmaverick.com/2009/11/09/rupert-murdoch-to-block-g...) it really gives me pause. No offense to Mr. Cuban either. Twitter & Facebook have not, and WILL NOT replace Google. It's that simple. Yes, they might perform some functions better than Google, but there are two different use cases for both sets of services. When I want to find general information about a topic (anything outside of 'real-time' info and my social graph) I go to Google first. Twitter and Facebook won't change that, because they are not even in that game. Bing, on the other hand, is finally gaining ground and that's good. Competition is a good thing for the markets and is very healthy. Someone needs to keep Google in check. This notion of throwing money at content providers/creators under the presumption that their content is what most of Google's traffic is in search for is a misguided notion. I don't profess to know what (if anything) will kill Google, but I would recommend that Calacanis and Cuban go read 'The Long Tail' again. That is the future. As 37signals puts it, the Fortune 5,000,000 not Fortune 100.