BACKGROUND ON CUBAN, BOSS OF RATHER
Mark Cuban is a man of many identities: dot-com billionaire, Dallas Mavericks owner and prime-time benefactor of HDNet.
At the 2004, WEB2, The audience didn't seem to buy everything Cuban was selling. Even with his foot in one of the more promising technology developments--Web logs--Cuban was heckled by an audience member as being pompous about it: "Uhhhh...He's got a blog!"
Cuban responded by laughing and pointing to his more memorable public appearances in the sports world as the owner of the Dallas Mavericks. "I've never been heckled at a conference before," Cuban said.
To be sure, conference organizers seemed aware of the possibility of a looming hype machine.
http://news.com.com/Mark+Cuban+raises+specter+of+dot-com+redux/2100-1026_3-5400029.html?tag=nl
Mark Cuban
Dallas Mavericks owner
$1,000 Republican '96
$1,000 Democrat '02
$5,000 special interest '96
total: $7,000
http://www.newsmeat.com/sports_political_donations/Mark_Cuban.php
Billionaire Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is making good on his promise to shake up journalism by funding Sharesleuth.com, an investigative business journalism site which he earlier described as "a blog that will do nothing but try to uncover corporate fraud." The site was founded by St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Christopher Carey, who has officially resigned to work on the site, which goes live next month. Cuban confirmed to PaidContent's Staci Kramer that platforms would include "the site, HDnet and HDnet films...and that's just the beginning."
On May 31st, Cuban wrote an entry on his blog called "Why Journalism Matters," calling on a new generation of sleuths, muckrakers, and would-be journos to challenge the form and generate the content they wanted to see. He invited journalism students "that can uncover stories others cant [sic] find and tell them in a way that others want to read" to contact him. PaidContent reports that Carey will be working with "stringers and input from a broad network of non-journalists who have an interest in the subject."
CUBAN promises to shake up journalism by funding Sharesleuth.com ---http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eat-the-press/2006/06/13/mark-cuban-starts-up-inve_e_22923.html
CUBAN'S WEBLOG
http://www.blogmaverick.com/entry/1234000993073720/