Mark Cuban and Fred Wilson are in, what Valleywag calls, "a classic blog battle." Owen Thomas has the complete story in a post titled, "Blogfight: Mark Cuban vs. Fred Wilson." The battle is well covered, but Owen remarks on the marks of a good blog fight:
Change the subject
Make it personal
Assert superior knowledge
Of course, Mark insists that he is Web 2.0 (only he doesn’t brag about it). From the post:
Is the Internet boring? Well, generally speaking, duh. Except, of course, when blogging luminaries get into a scrap over whether it is. Billionaire entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban started things a month ago when, in an offhand sentence, he declared the Internet "dead as a growth platform" because of a stagnation in the speed of home broadband connections. He reiterated his comments to Portfolio.com, and then repeated them on his blog. Say something often enough, and people start to notice. People like Web 2.0 venture capitalist Fred Wilson. A classic blogfight — observing the three rules of the genre — ensued.
Mark Cuban and Fred Wilson are in, what Valleywag calls, "a classic blog battle." Owen Thomas has the complete story in a post titled, "Blogfight: Mark Cuban vs. Fred Wilson." The battle is well covered, but Owen remarks on the marks of a good blog fight:Is the Internet boring? Well, generally speaking, duh. Except, of course, when blogging luminaries get into a scrap over whether it is. Billionaire entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban started things a month ago when, in an offhand sentence, he declared the Internet "dead as a growth platform" because of a stagnation in the speed of home broadband connections. He reiterated his comments to Portfolio.com, and then repeated them on his blog. Say something often enough, and people start to notice. People like Web 2.0 venture capitalist Fred Wilson. A classic blogfight — observing the three rules of the genre — ensued.
