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Mark Cuban often makes news, whether it's in his role as owner of the Dallas Mavericks, tech entrepreneur, or ballroom dancer.

This time, Cuban has some advice for the news media: "newspapers having 'bloggers' is easily one of the many bad decisions that newspapers have made over the past 10 years." He goes on to offer some marketing and branding tips: don't call them blogs, call them "Real Time Reports."

Mark Cuban

You can read his take on his blog.

What prompted this? Cuban's recent move to ban bloggers from the Mavericks locker room has drawn much criticism. (I can see the headline in The Onion now: "Cuban bans himself from Mavericks locker room.")

Saul Hansell of The New York Times offers his take in (what else?) a blog posting: "Call it whatever you want, but if it links like a blog, and is open like a blog, and interacts like a blog, then it is a blog. Readers can decide if it is worth their time, as they do with the columns, analysis, reviews or anything else on paper."

Read the full blog on The New York Times site: "What I've Learned as a Blogger for The New York Times"

Whistle-blower Web site Wikileaks.org has been effectively ordered offline by a California court. Last week, the court ordered domain name registrar Dynadot to remove all DNS entries for that domain. According to a story by the BBC, Dynadot was also ordered to "prevent the domain name from resolving to the wikileaks.org website or any other website or server other than a blank park page, until further order of this Court." Swiss banking group Julius Baer Bank and documents surrounding its offshore activities are at the center of the controversy. The Wikileaks.org site is still available here.

Read the full BBC story: "Whistle-blower site taken offline"

Read Declan McCullagh's take in CNET News.com's The Iconoclast blog: "Wikileaks domain name yanked in spat over leaked documents"

What if there was a way to capture carbon dioxide from the air and use it to make carbon-neutral fuel? Scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory say they have developed a process that does just that, according to a report by Andrew C. Revkin of The New York Times . But there's a "minor hurdle," says Revkin. Hint: nuclear power figures into the equation.

Read the full New York Times story: "Federal lab says it can harvest fuel from air (with a catch)"