Differences Between Blogging and Traditional Media

What does Dallas Mavericks’ owner Mark Cuban do after a Mavs game? He blogs of course! In his latest entries, he has some interesting thoughts and commentaries about blogging and traditional media, namely newspapers.

He does have a point about same old, non-original stories on the Net. Blogs are interesting because they offer various viewpoints and fresh perspectives compared to online news sites.

Although he does realize the financial limitations put forth on traditional media:

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.

So my takeaway from all of this is if you want good ideas to share, you first need to become a whiny millionaire then you need to buy an NBA club so that you can go to the games for free. Then after the game, still amped up, go home, think up good ideas, then write about them in your blog.

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