Jason Calacanis is the CEO of Mahalo.com, "the First Human-powered Search Engine" according to their site. I met Jason at the Milken Institute's Global Conference. Prior to the Milken Conference, I had started following Jason on Twitter a couple of months back so I knew how humorous and irreverant he could be. During the Milken panel titled, "The Changing Rules of PR and Corporate Influence in the Digital Age" he was particularly irreverant and I knew immediately that I needed to do a podcast with him.

Unfortunately I didn't have my podcast equipment with me at the Milken Conference so I had to do this podcast with Jason via my iPhone. The quality is not perfect but the content (Jason's insights, not mine) more than make up for that fact. Listen in as Jason talks about how he got started, Mahalo.com's innovative "American Idol" style process for choosing a new host for Mahalo Daily and the importance blogging and Twittering should play in the role of today's CEO. Blog