Investor Carl Icahn’s blog launches … finally

Don’t say your CEO is going to write a blog unless he or she has actually penned a few posts, and you’ve definitely gone live

Outspoken investor Carl Icahn—known these days as the man who’d like to get rid of the entire board of directors at Yahoo!—told the media back in February that he’d launch a blog, The Icahn Report. However, the blog was empty of posts for months, during which time the New York Post published a daily “Carl ‘I Can’t’ Blog Counter,” on its Web site, ticking off the minutes and hours until Icahn started writing. (He had said in some interviews that his lawyers wouldn’t let him blog.)

Icahn finally launched the blog in late June, with a batch of posts to get things going. The debut post, titled “Corporate Democracy is a Myth,” is generating plenty of buzz in the mainstream media and on blogs. In this post, Icahn rips corporate boards for their laziness, lack of competitiveness and sycophantic behavior: