Thursday, December 11, 2008

13 out of the 1,125 billionaires of the Forbes list are true bloggers

By A Bisht at 12:17 AM

13 out of the 1,125 billionaires of the Forbes list are true bloggers.

Just to clarify, they are not people who became billionaires out of blogging; but these 13 are billionaires who blog.

These 13 range in age from 24 to 80.

Mark Zukerberg is youngest at 24.

T. Boone Pickens is the oldest at 80.

These billionaire bloggers span five industries, and blog(write) about different things.

Some use their blogs as a PR machine, some to take on critics, some simply to connect with people; and some to help those who want to learn from their lives.And so on...

Some billionaire bloggers who you may know:

Oprah Winfrey (The tear inducing, bee-hive hairdo sporting,gift-distributing hostess of "The Oprah Winfrey Show")

Donald Trump(The rich guy who promises jobs to aspirants in the reality show "The Apprentice")

J.K. Rowling(author of Harry Potter series; don't confuse with the name, it is the name of woman)

Mark Cuban (owner Dallas Mavericks baseball team)


Interesting fact about blogging:


More than 112 million or 11 crore people in the world blog regularly or are true bloggers.