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- TellarHK, on 03/29/2008, -2/+16I think Mark Cuban is dead on. Any idiot with access to livejournal or wordpress.com can be a "blogger" and claim professional status by the NBA's reckoning. What Cuban seems to be saying is that actual journalists (there IS a difference) and bloggers are on different levels, and that bloggers - while being given some access - are a second level.
Just because I've written blog posts that three people might have read doesn't mean I need to get press credentials for everything I want. If I have 40,000 readers a day - maybe I'll qualify. That seems to be what Cuban's saying. And, if I have some kind of ethic about what and how I blog that equates to how professional journalists operate, then maybe I'll cross that line into being a real journalist. - fxu1989, on 03/29/2008, -2/+11I don't care.
Am I the only who doesn't really read any blogs ?
Occasionally I read some from the digg stories (read: blogspam) - nahsrocketeer75, on 03/29/2008, -3/+9Of course, he's entitled to his opinion ... he's just dead wrong on this one.
- robbh66, on 03/29/2008, -0/+6Bloggers continually cling to this idea that they are really relevant.
I cant wait for this to all go away. - nahsrocketeer75, on 03/29/2008, -0/+5I can't say for certain one way or the other, but I suspect they do. IMO, though, it should be of little concern to the team whether a writer is delivering his/her stories via the Internet or dead trees. The question should be whether anyone's reading it. A blogger with a big audience should get access before a newspaper writer with a small audience. A blogger no one reads shouldn't expect access.
- inactive, on 03/29/2008, -0/+5Does anyone know if other spots allow bloggers in the locker room?
- passiveconsumer, on 03/29/2008, -1/+5Think of Cuban what you may, he seems to be the only one that DOES "get it". I write a blog and live in Dallas. Does that mean I'm "press" and should have access to the team 82 games a year? I think not.
- ideadude, on 03/29/2008, -0/+3Here's a direct to his post on bloggers in the locker room.
http://www.blogmaverick.com/2008/03/10/bloggers-in ...
I'm siding with Mark on this one. The dude is a blogging pioneer, with one of the most successful blogs on the internet. Anyone who says he doesn't understand bloggers is being a little bit ingenuous.
He originally took issue with a blogger working for a newspaper... saying that that guy shouldn't get preferred treatment because he worked for a newspaper. Then he correctly pointed out the difference between guys who get paid to write and post their stuff on highly-trafficked websites and on TV vs a blogger with limited reach.
There's limited space in the locker room and he has a right to maximize the personnel in there. - robbh66, on 03/29/2008, -1/+3Yes, because I wrote a post once on he internet I should get all the courtesies of people who are actually ***** journalists.
Someone notify the Whitehouse I'll be at the press briefing tomorrow and expect a seat in the front row.
Get a ***** clue. - belinelli, on 03/29/2008, -1/+3Mark is right. He should limit access to as few reporters as he feels necessary. Blog is not even a real word, bloggers can mean any moron with access to internet. Even "real" reporters' blogs are idiotic for the most part. It's ridiculous, it's just a bunch of people with desperate need for attention, writing nonsense nobody cares about.
Who cares what Billy the blogger thinks of Dirk Nowitzki. Get a real job, and stop wasting bandwidth. - robbh66, on 03/29/2008, -0/+2Yeah, because bloggers are always dead right.. lmfao
- EmperorBobman, on 03/29/2008, -1/+3I think this is a pretty fool-hardy article. I know Cuban is easy to hate, but he's not some draconian idiot. He banned a Dallas Morning News blogger because the Dallas Morning News thought that since they were the big paper, that their blogger should get in above everybody else. If there is anybody in the NBA in favor of technological progress, it'd be very hard to find somebody more at the fore-front than Cuban. This just seems to be an invective aimed at a flamboyant public figure that the author just happens to dislike.
That and he seems to have not payed attention to Cuban at all. Since Cuban's position was laid out very simply on his blog that's already been linked here. - replaysMike, on 03/30/2008, -1/+2I'm with Cuban on this one. It'd be like open mic night inside the locker room, and insult the players.
- CoolWind, on 03/29/2008, -0/+1OH NO! Mark Cuban doesn't understand bloggers! OH NO!
- fubuvsfitch, on 03/29/2008, -0/+1The only good thing Cuban has done for that team is funded them and brought energy.
The moves he has made as far as players and personnell haven't worked, obviously. - KnightMareInc, on 03/29/2008, -0/+1wont be long before the NBA forces teams to allow twitters in the locker room
- planetberry, on 03/29/2008, -0/+1I give him thumbs up for his stands on the League but sometimes he does bring it on himself. He never backs down though. Gotta love his intensity.
- planetberry, on 03/29/2008, -0/+0He opened the door on this one! Now with his team floundering it will only get worse.
- badwithcomputer, on 03/29/2008, -2/+2mark cuban's brother recently has become a very active user on digg...i'm curious to see if he sees this article and weighs in on it- he submits op-ed pieces from his blog and i wouldn't be surprised (and would be very interested) to see what he has to say about it.
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http://www.Continuesslurs.com/slursContinues - smacksaw, on 03/29/2008, -3/+2Cuban is strange. Almost like one of those people who succeed in spite of themselves. Blogging is an opportunity, not a threat or an annoyance. For a man who's made a career on developing businesses, it's foolhardy of him to not figure out a better way.
- inactive, on 03/29/2008, -6/+5I thiink Mark Cuban is entitled to his opinion. Feel free to read what he says at http://www.blogmaverick.com/
- fubuvsfitch, on 03/29/2008, -2/+1How does your reply have anything to do with what smacksaw said?
- kenvsryu, on 03/29/2008, -3/+2cuban is a d-bag.
- ESTEBEVERDE, on 03/29/2008, -4/+2Mark Cuban can BLOW ME!
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