Boing Boing

In 2000, Mark Frauenfelder was a household name in tech. He was a former Wired editor, a monthly Playboy contributor, and had his own ‘zine (“coincidentally” named bOING bOING).

How could he have thought that publishing a single sentence was a good idea? Especially for something not particularly remarkable.

I’m glad they changed their style.

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Mark Cuban confuses me. His “first” post is dated November 1999, but I’m more than just-a-bit-sure that that’s wrong. His next one is from the much more realistic March 2004.

The 1999 post reflects on his predictions of 1999 (hence the almost-undoubtedly modified date), and is pretty good: a humble look at predictions proved false. He also establishes his authority, by citing three big speeches he’s given.

The 2004 post is a little more scattered, though it’s still coherent. In a stream of consciousness look at the process of shooting promos for his new show, Cuban tells us about how fun it can be to hand people money, especially when it’s being given to loudmouthed irresponsible drivers.

I’m torn between The Good and The Bad for this, but I’m going to err on the side of good-ness, simply because I laughed out loud while reading each of them.

“What about my old predictions?” — 1999

“First day shooting promos for The Benefactor” — 2004