Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins
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How To: Save Up To $600 a Month on Cable and Mobile Costs
I’ve been intrigued by thread starting to make it’s way around the blogosphere started by Brian Barrett over at Gizmodo on the “death by a thousand subscription fees” we all suffer from as geeks and technology consumers. Not surprisingly, Steven Hodson picked up the ball and ran with it over at the Inquisitr. Both writers ...
Attention eBook Manufacturers: It Isn’t the Coolness, It’s the Price That Matters [An Open Letter]
While it isn’t the coolness that matters most, when you unveil yet another cool new eBook reader, we all do salivate quite a bit. I’ve been following what’s been happening in the world of e-Ink since 2004-ish, when I first started developing for the technology. Later on, when I started writing and producing at Mashable, ...
Let Me Re-Phrase: The Tonight Show Wouldn’t Work on the Web. Conan Might Though.
Yesterday, I wrote a piece entitled “Why Conan O’Brien Wouldn’t Work on the Web … Yet.” After reading the next round of rumors about how the NBC nighttime lineup is shaking out, I feel like I need to re-phrase my analysis and predictions a bit. First of all, to the rumors: according to Sean P. ...
Exclusive: Sean Percival Joins MySpace, Talks to SiliconANGLE About MySpace’s Strategy
Yesterday evening, MySpace announced that my friend and SiliconANGLE contributor Sean Percival is now the Director of Content Socialization at the company. Sean’s worked a number of places you’ve heard of, and runs Lalawag with his wife Laurie. Sean and I talked briefly last month as a part of the SiliconANGLE predictions series. The meat ...
Why Conan O’Brien Wouldn’t Work on the Web … Yet.
Chris Crum relays a very interesting question today over at WebProNews from Jason Falls: “Would Conan Work on the Web?” It’s an interesting question, and one that I surprisingly hadn’t thought to ask yet, but an option I tend to bring up whenever a mainstream star is looking at their options. When Don Imus was ...
What Did I Tell You? Comcast is Warming to Network Neutrality Enforcement.
Ars Technica is reporting today on a bit of interesting tech policy news out of the Comcast corporate blog. The message? That they don’t “want net neutrality rules, and will still work to convince the FCC they are counterproductive,” but “we are obviously better off having ‘clear rules,’ as [Comcast CEO] Brian [Roberts] stated, than ...
So We’re All Supposed to Believe Google Finally Developed a Conscience? [The Dissenting Opinion]
Ryan Tate at Valleywag wrote an uncharacteristically positive opening line to a post today: “Google is putting its profits and growth on the line to stand up to China’s [sic] authoritartian practices.” Are they really, though? Nick Douglas over at Lalawag (former Valleywagger, incidentally) challenges the critical thinking on this topic by challenging our capacity ...
Encoding Pits Rackspace vs. AWS; Rackspace Wins on Economy and Power [Cloud Collission]
At SiliconANGLE, one of the lesser publicized benefits for membership we have here is that we offer cloud-based blog hosting on our custom infrastructure (powered by our partner Rackspace, of course). It’s something we’ve been testing to great success in private alpha for close to six months now, and it’s become an easier and easier ...
#CES2010 Cemented the Paths of Convergence and Disruption
I’m still only just recovering from being awake far too much during the week of CES, and I have a number of observations regarding the show in general, and some of the devices I saw specifically. I sat down with Cali Lewis in her studio this Saturday and talked a bit about what I thought ...
#CES2010: Steve Ballmer Made a Funny in His Keynote, and Only Steven Hodson Noticed
It’s actually pretty funny: Take a look at the image at the top of this post. You see it? Look again…… I have to be honest I didn’t see it at first either and it took a post by Steve Clayton to point out what is a very sly jab at Apple. Here take a ...
