Calacanis is out, and I know why.

Well, maybe. It’s one of two reasons. Either, he wishes Silicon Alley Reporter had been 8 years later because he was doing all of this blogging stuff before blogging was blogging. Or, because he wishes Mahalo had been a blog network instead of a semantic search engine. Either way, he’s just waiting out the storm because its about to be back to the amateurs (like me).

So, its time to mark the end of the uprising. All of the tech blogs that bucked the “mainstream media” and have dominated the conversation for the last 5 years. It is quite an achievement, and media is forever changed. But, the wall is crumbling. Let us recount:

• Preview: Conde Nast buys Reddit — Oct 2006

• MediaBistro cashes out — July 2007

• Scobelizer and Fast Company hook up — March 2008

• Conde Nast takes out Ars Technica. — May 2008

• PaidContent rocks it $30 mil — July 2008

• Guy Kawasaki sells Truemors — (what?) — July 2008

Who is next? Well, two guaranteed predictions:

• Readwriteweb

• TechCrunch — Henry Blodget’s $100 mil valuation is just months away.

Ain’t it great when old media gets a whiff of new media?