Late last year, I attended a conference on blogging - the first of its kind that I know of - and the closing keynote speaker was Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks . In November, addressing a pretty eclectic crowd of folks who blog on all sorts of topics (sports, politics, parenting, you name it), Cuban sounded like a digital Thomas Paine . So it came as a shock when a couple of weeks ago, Cuban made news by banning the only blogger who covers his basketball team from the Dallas locker room. In writing about the ban, the Dallas paper noted that the blogger - who has apparently been doing this since 2006 - had, on the day of the ban, criticized Mavs coach Avery Johnson . read more

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