Your dignified questions and responses are appreciated during this very emotional time for me. - Jason Calacanis via Bookmarklet

So you are retiring from one medium, just to take up the same task in another? - David

Jason - bad day to announce. You'll get lost in the iPhone launch - Dave Hodson

"Starting today all of my thoughts will be reserved for a new medium. Something smaller, something more intimate, and something very personal: an email list. ............I'm going to try and build a deeper relationship with fewer people--try to get back to my roots." Sounds more like you're trying to get back to 1994! You should add a fax newsletter subscription too! ;) - Adam Turetzky

Joke or serious comment? I find it hard to believe that will be able to stop unless the sale of Mahalo is true. - Andrew Forde via twhirl

...a fax blog would be so retro. - David

doubt this istrue - Jay Martinez via twhirl

Ha! Great post, Jason. - Brent Newhall

"Today the email list has about 600 members, I'm going to cut it off when it reaches 750. Frankly, that's enough more than enough people to have a conversation with." - a nice problem to have, being forced to pare down your circle of friends to 750! Enjoy your "freedom". :) - Lindsay is :)

may i suggest western union- would be great for us all to return to telegrams. or: -... ..- .-.. .-.. .-.. -.. --- --. ... .-. --- -.-. -.- - nicefishfilms

Jason, I enjoyed reading your blog and learned a lot about building mine by observing some of your design/etc. successes. Proud to be on your e-mail list, though! - Andy DeSoto

I am going to missing your writing. But you will probably come back to your pen for it's likely you'll miss your blog in time. So I guess this is just an au revoir! - Eric Sausse

too bad, man. i hope my subscription to your list goes through and i am one of the people that gets to carry on the conversation with you. - Adam Bullied via twhirl

the benefits of being the big fish. - NoahDavidSimon

After the last few days, I understand totally - Francine Hardaway via twhirl

Going to spend more time with Loren in the hot tub? - Brian Sullivan

*yawn* - Jason Carreira via twhirl

Didn't Dave Winer say he was going to quit blogging in one year a few years back or something? - Thomas Hawk

Maybe Dave and Jason are running off together? - Brian Sullivan

So, you met Clark Kent. Where was Lois Lane? I thought she got all the scoops. - William Beem

Jason: Fair winds and following seas. - Roberto Bonini

If this is a joke, I don't get it. - Wendy

Yo McCabe, were you really this desperate for a puppet? Fine you win. - loren feldman

Nooooo Jason don't leave us! - Sam Purtill

Wow. The Henry Ford of blogging retires from the medium. Best of luck in your other endeavors! - Doug via twhirl

I'm really surprised, I think you blogging is a very important part of you and I dont think you'll be able to last long without it/ - Andrew Fielding via twhirl

that whole 1938 media technigga thing scaring ya off eh? - Dan Rockwell via twhirl

Will you be asking for an unconditional release from Mahalo tomorrow a la Favre? - William Reveal via twhirl

Blogging is so 2007. FF is the blogging of the future? I think, maybe, ... are you really going to retire? - Sean Simkins via twhirl

are you retiring so you can sign with another team? - Ryan Cates

Say wha?! - Christopher Comella

so you found something more profitable? a private podcast? - pit schultz

he's retiring because of his bulldogs, silly - Dave Q