Why Mark Cuban started his blog
Fast Company has provided a transcript of Mark Cuban’s closing keynote speech at the 2007 Blog World Expo. Included in the transcript is the reason Mark Cuban decided to launch his blog:
I started my blog in 2004 because I did an interview with the Dallas Morning News about the Dallas Mavericks. I expected to see a write up that equated with the conversation. What was written was different than the email exchange. I decided it was time to start a blog. I put up a link to the article and then put up the email exchange. The response was amazing and was an accelerator for me to start blogging.
All of a sudden they realized they weren’t in charge of me. They had to realize they had to pay attention to people. Blogging isn’t just about people getting things off their chest, it’s a way for ideas and the truth to come out.
Mark has since used his blog for fun (to pimp for votes on Dancing with the Stars) and for more serious fodder (An Open Facebook API vs Google OpenSocial for example). However, Cuban is quick to point out that the content you post to your blog is there FOREVER! When he hires someone, he Googles them first. It may feel GREAT to get a rant off your chest, but at the end of the day, what you write is there FOREVER.
Somce people are blogging in hopes of generating $$$$. Others are blogging in hopes of achieving fame. However, keep in mind that you are documenting your thoughts for posterity. If you’re an independent service professional who is selling his/her expertise in exchange for $$$, blogs are a great marketing tool. They allow you to showcase your expertise to inspire confidence amongst your potential customers.
Experience Posticon without the hassle of leaving home or work
The blog world has been buzzing about the Blogworld Expo, but Posticon is an event held in the "spirit" of the internet. In order to attend the Blogworld Expo you had to purchase airline tickets, get a hotel room and take time away from work to attend Blogworld Expo.
Posticon is different. Posticon is offering their conference material online and Andy Beard has created a Posticon Mashup so you can attend Posticon VIRTUALLY!
By the way, what Andy has done is an EXCEPTION example of providing value to his readers which in turn is going to create a LOT of incoming links for his blog. BRAVO!
Is Google the name we use for George Orwell’s vision of Big Brother?
Andy Beard introduces us to the joys of using Gmail (Google’s free web based email)…and the filtering the free email service does at the source. UGH! Once again illustrating that hard life lesson that nothing in life is truly "free".
Calling Google Orwellian is nothing new. Scott Cleland writes:
I continue to marvel at the undisciplined‚ naivete and brat-ishness‚ of this $150 billion 8 year old company called Google. Like a spolied child that has gotten used to getting everything they scream for‚ because of over-indulgent market parents who never said no, this company truly behaves like they think the world revolves around them and their demands.
However, it’s almost impossible not to be touched by Google if you live and work on the internet. Even if you were to try to avoid Google, if you purchase a Dell computer and you’ll find the Google Toolbar already pre-installed! (See Google Turns the Page…in a Bad Way.)
Cries of Google’s evil intent date back several years. The famous "O’Reilly" blog has a post from 2005 on "Is Google Evil?"
Still, no matter how "evil" Google gets, (rich? powerful? seemingly omnipotent?) there are still those who will put a positive (and amusing) spin on the whole situation. (Read the First full-time biotech employee at Google.)
It’s also interesting to note that the cries labeling the Orwellian nature of Google don’t extend to Myspace or Facebook.
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