Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks Basketball team,
made a personal blog site known as Mark Cuban blog. Representing
his blog on the Internet Mark Cuban said, “I started
the blog because I was tired of giving in-depth responses
to a media question only to have the result be what the reporter
or columnist intended to write and I was just fodder to help
them make their point. With the blog, I can present my position
on a topic in its entirety and not have to worry about how
they condense a two-hour conversation into 500 words.”
Marc Cuban said that he was tired of reading incomplete information
or misinformation about what he was doing in the sports media.
With the help of blog he wants to get the fact out to the
people. According to him, now-a-days everyone with any awareness
of the Internet from a business perspective is aware of blogs.
So the issue is “If you write it, will they come”?
So it is one thing to write a blog to set the record straight,
but if you have no one reads the blog, it’s not worth
the effort.
In his blog, Mark Cuban tells stories about how Dallas Morning
News columnist Kevin Blackstone blatantly misquoting him and
Chicago Tribune’s Sam Smith starting rumors about Cuban
talking to Pat Riley about a coaching job. Before creating
his own blog there was no way to clear his point of view towards
world. So the blog helps him to clarified his difficulties
and make readers to establish a direct contact with him through
his blog.