"I am watching as the blogging world crucifies me," TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington writes, after he didn't attend a Las Vegas conference where he'd been advertised as a star panelist. Crucifies? Mike, rent a copy of The Passion of the Christ before you, like John Lennon, reach for that self-aggrandizing metaphor again. And if you think your fellow bloggers hate you now, wait'll they find out you've been invited to Davos. Elsewhere over the weekend, funtrepreneur Jason Calacanis got himself booted from the insidery Gillmor Gang podcast. No, we don't listen to it either. But we did play the you're-fired phone call Calacanis posted to his Twitter page. Mental note: Calacanis records his calls.

It's only speculation, but you can watch funtrepreneur Jason Calacanis connecting the dots in his head: The concept here is you beat me down, but send a couple of dozen readers ... Paul B, [sick of] low-paying job with Nick Denton, takes over the ship ... profit! Dude, I'll take that as another of your public job offers. Make it $12.50 a post and I'll bring Jordan "Bulldog Pup" Golson with me.

Remember Hakia? It's the here-today, likely-gone-tomorrow search engine which allows users to meet other users searching for the same topic. A frightening feature, to be sure. But it'd be worse if Hakia members actually had to meet each other in person. Starting with the obvious, here is a list of queries whose searchers you don't want to meet. (Or maybe you do. Pervert.)

How high is Jason Calacanis on his new videoblogger? "Veronica Belmont is a Rojas-level hire," he reportedly told groupies who showed up for a dim sum dinner in New York's Chinatown yesterday. That may sound like praise for Belmont, the videoblogger he hired away from CNET. But it's really more egotism. The thing you need to know about Jason Calacanis, the boy from Brooklyn who moved to Tinseltown, is that he fancies himself a new-age Hollywood mogul for the Web. Like a studio boss of old, he hopes to manufacture stars. Take, for example, his flashy hire of Peter Rojas away from Gizmodo (like Valleywag, a site published by Gawker Media) to run Engadget. Calacanis parlayed Engadget into a blog network, Weblogs Inc., which he then sold for $25 million to AOL. As an AOL executive, when Amanda Congdon left Rocketboom, he publicly offered her a videoblogging deal — which never panned out. Now, with Belmont, Mahalo's new videoblogger, Calacanis again wants to create a new star. He's fooling himself.

Attention, bottom-feeding Gothamites! Weblogs Inc. cofounder Jason Calacanis is eager to bore you to tears over dinner about how great his new venture Mahalo is. (The short version: Remember Yahoo's Web directory from 12 years ago? That's basically Mahalo.) The buntrepreneur is stuffing his bulldog-cute, apple-cheeked face full of dim sum — oops, back to fatblogging! — at the Golden Unicorn at 7:30 p.m. tonight, notes Silicon Alley Insider.

If you think we're tough on Valley wantrepreneurs in New York, you should hear them in L.A. A SoCal tipster writes in:

Calacanis realizes that if search isn't putting butts in Aeron seats, he can always try to boost geeky traffic with popular entertainment. He lays this strategy bare by orchestrating the amusing Belmont through an unamusing series of popular video show parodies: Ze Frank, Rocketboom, Ask a Ninja, Tay Zonday, Diggnation, and Lonelygirl15. The only problem? Calacanis's hamhanded directorial approach destroys Belmont's charm. (On the bright side, there is a bulldog!) The parade of references to one-hit wonders of online video past is telling. All of them had buzz that quickly sputtered. Fortunately, talent will out. Mahalo may end up a flash in the pan, but Belmont's star, we suspect, is only beginning to rise.

Kicked off of ABC's Dancing with the Stars, Mark Cuban reveals that he's lost 30 pounds in the course of preparing for and performing on the show. That points to his future career: fatblogging, like his good buddy Jason Calacanis, the wantrepreneur who's turned himself into the Richard Simmmons of the Internet.

Sean Coon has written the definitive blog post on wantrepreneur Jason Calacanis's latest startup, "Mahalo Is Not Human-Powered Search; It's A Collaborative Link Blog." Could Mahalo be the next linkblog branded a dirty linkwhore by ad partner Google? And with Mahalo's traffic already so low, would we be able to tell if it happened? [dotmatrixproject]

Bulldog-cute wantrepreneur and bulldog aficionado Jason Calacanis sends a pair of Twitters to remind you that, like Valleywagger Paul Boutin, he's much more important than you:

Bulldog-cute entrepreneur Jason Calacanis dogs the Web 2.0 Summit's panel of search-engine optimization experts: "People are coming up to ask questions and the guy keeps saying, 'Well you have to do social work on Digg and Reddit, but it's complicated and we need to talk about it.' During the panel he said, 'It's complicated, we should talk about it after the panel.' I'm sure folks will come to his office and he'll say, 'It's complicated, sign this contract and we can start working on it.'"

Facebook has an AIM screenname. It's not being used for much yet, just sending out invites to join the service from folks who upload their buddy list, but we see potential. Whether or not Facebook will take advantage is something very different. You can already poke and get messages via your cell phone with Facebook Mobile, but very little appears on the site about the new IM interface. At the moment, sending an IM to "Facebook" gets you a boring "if you are not on Facebook, please sign up now" message. Come on Zuckerberg, get it together. This could be a great new way to poke your friends, and we doubt Facebook cares much about a few lost pageviews. Going to my browser to poke Jason McCabe Calacanis is just too much work.

"Social networking is second only to chat rooms as the worst place to advertise. The content there from your friends and your family is more compelling than any advertisement. Google has the greatest advertising in media history — search advertising. When you type a word into the box, we know what you're looking for. When you're on Facebook, we know you're looking to meet a girl or talk to your friends. It's a terrible platform for advertising. The holy grail of e-commerce forever has been that people are going to buy something online because their friends did, or that everybody here is into skiing so we're going to sell a bunch of skiing stuff. It hasn't happened. Plus, e-commerce is a low-margin business. It's nowhere near search inventory."

Blog blowhard Jason Calacanis notices what we've been saying for weeks. If you write an application for Facebook and it's the least bit popular or profitable, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will take your idea and crush you. But he'll be nice while he does it. [Calacanis.com]

"Yeah, I suppose you fooled Techmeme about your sincerity. Note that you also fooled Fred Wilson and Josh Kopelman in the process. Training your readers to doubt you can be risky. Sometimes you want your posts taken at face value, e.g. those insisting your company is succeeding." Gabe Rivera, founder of blog aggregator Techmeme, takes on blowhard blogger Jason Calacanis. [Calacanis.com]

To the frustration of his less-savvy and overserious critics, Internet entrepreneur and professional gadfly Jason Calacanis has mastered the API for online tech-news tracker Techmeme. [Calacanis.com]