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Mark Cuban: “I like to curse. I like to curse because I enjoy how it gets everyone in an uproar. I won’t curse in an environment where I have accepted an invitation or am a guest of someone else. I will play by their rules. But if you come on my home turf and want something from me. Its my rules.” [via Doc Searls]
Yes. Yes, indeed. And smays.com is my turf so you should expect to see a profanity or an obscenity from time to time. Please reference this post.
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“Traditional media has become almost exclusively corporate while blogging remains almost exclusively personal. (People in traditional media) get hired for a specific job and they have to do that job. They get hired by a corporation that is most likely public, which means their senior management , the people they ultimately report to, have to put getting the stock price up above all else. That is really what blogging vs traditional media in 2006 has come down to. Bloggers drive blogs, share price drives traditional media. Blogging is personal, traditional media is corporate.
Which is exactly why blog readership is going up, while traditional media is consolidating, if not contracting. Traditional media goes to work, bloggers live their work.”
I encourage you to read Mr. Cuban’s full post. Say what you will, Mark Cuban has always been about five minutes ahead on the old “Information Highway.” And he understands blogging as only a blogger can. [via Scripting.com]
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Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is getting his own two-hour weekly show on Sirius Satellite Radio. Cuban says he’s “going to cover everything and anything, from sprots to business to technology, movies and entertainment.” This just seems so much more interesting than David Lee Roth or Bob Dylan, for that matter. But not enough to make me switch. One of your Sirius subscribers could aircheck and send me an MP3 file. If you loved me. Wonder what sort of format they’ll use? [Ft. Worth Star-Telegram via RAIN]
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Dallas Mavricks owner Mark Cuban says bring back the live commercial so neither the viewer (nor the advertiser) will know what to expect until it happens. Calling them Reality Commercials, Cuban claims implementing such a thing would not be a technical challenge or a creative one but it would entail a whole lot more work. I don’t watch TV ads now but I just might watch a few if they were live. Could we make this work in our network newscasts? Doubtful. Our clients probably woudn’t like it. Our sales reps wouldn’t like it. Our anchors wouldn’t like it. But our listeners might. [via AdRants]
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Steve Rubel says Mark Cuban owes much of his success to his willingness to “read the manual.” He always keeps up with the changing world and recognizes the trends early. Today the “manual” is living. It’s the blogosphere.
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After writing the previous post, I popped over to Mark Cuban’s blog and read a very interesting (and lengthy) post about an article in the New York Times. I haven’t been following the story but that’s not what I found interesting.
Cuban published the complete email exchange upon which the NYT article was based –with link to the article– and invites his readers to decide if the Times piece is a fair representation of what Cuban said/wrote.
In the good old days, we would have read the Times story and assumed (because it’s the New York Times, after all) it was 100% accurate. If we happened to know Mark Cuban we could ask him if it was but today the entire world can decide if the story was fair and accurate.
If all my reporter buddies can’t see why this is a big deal… well, I can’t explain it to them. This is what they mean when they talk about the web becoming a “conversation.”
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Finally got around to going through the last box of files that came along with the recent office move. Found a file with notes and correspondence with Mark Cuban (PDF) (November and December, 1995). Cuban was cutting lots of content deals back in those days and he was hot to stream our football and basketball broadcasts. Almost nobody knew what streaming was and it was damned hard to imagine that anyone would ever listen to “the radio” on their computers. His company was called AudioNet back then and became Broadcast.com before he sold to Yahoo! How could that have been 10 years ago? And what will this all look like 10 years from now? Sheeeiiittt.
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Mark Cuban on podcasting: “Podcasting is hot. Podcasting is cheap and easy. Podcasting can be fun. Creating your own podcast and trying to make a business out of it is a mistake. Unless you are repurposing content from another medium, it will be rare to find anyone making money from originating podcasts.”
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Mark Cuban says “the MGM Grokster decision won’t help the content business make more money. It wont help artists make more money. This deal gave something to both sides, but it gave the most to lawyers and lobbyists.” [via Scripting News]
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Mark Cuban’s post on the Grokster Supreme Court argument motivated me to make a contribution to and join the Electronic Frontier Foundation. I’m not a joiner but I’m proud to support this organization.
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