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First let me say that I think that the Apprentice is ridiculous. It couldn't paint a worse picture of 95% of corporate America. Having not yet seen the Benefactor, I'm not yet in a position to express an opinion on it. However Mark Cuban, star of the Benefactor, has expressed his opinion over on his blog, Blog Maverick, on the Donald and I have to say...BRAVO Mark...Bravo!!!

I'm so sick of hearing Donald Trumps self serving B.S. at the beginning of his show or during any of the commerical spots or T.V. promos he's done. Of course now I don't watch it any longer, but it's as if he thinks that its everyones dream in life is to be a 200lb pompus bald headed asshole. I mean sure, it must be nice to own all those THINGS and all, but get over yourself Trump.

The Donald is a cankersore on the mouth of New York. One that lingers and lingers and never goes away. We wish it would, but it just doesn't. Maybe the Benefactor will make it go away. Mark...please slam dunk his ass out of New York and back to his casino in Vegas. Ahhhh...what poetic justice that would be.

Weblogs Inc., the B2B blog that I write for from time to time, has been covered in the San Jose Mercury News. Here's an excerpt where they talk about two uber bloggers Jason Calacanis and Nick Denton. Jason is the part owner, along with Brian Alvey, of the web property Weblogs Inc. You can find the full article right over here.

In New York City, two entrepreneurs are waging a mini-war to become the best-known operators of niche blogs -- sites catering to relatively small but passionately interested audiences. Nick Denton's Gawker Media (www.gawker.com) runs several popular, advertising-supported blogs including Gizmodo (www.gizmodo.com), which is devoted to gadgets, and Wonkette (www.wonkette.com), which gossips about powerful people in Washington, D.C.

Jason Calacanis, meanwhile, created Weblogs Inc. (www.weblogsinc.com) and is competing with Denton. Calacanis lured the original author of Gizmodo to launch his own gadget site, Engadget (www.engadget.com). Weblogs Inc. hosts about two dozen sites now, including Cuban's.

Business aside, I'm much more interested in the use of blogs for social and political change. One of the most important sessions at BloggerCon looked at blogs in the international context.