Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins
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Have You Been to Intel’s Academic Community?
When was the last time you had the joy of discovering an island community somewhere on the web of a community of intellectuals? The vibrant communities we talk about in our corner of the technology echo chamber are well known to us – FriendFeed, Twitter, parts of Facebook, a number of assundrous blogging communities that ...
It’s Almost Too Late to Save Print Media
I’ve been trying to concentrate on a number of assignments today that need attention, but the news cycle keeps pulling me back into pondering the impending death of the print news business. First, there was the announcement that the last issue of The Rocky Mountain News would be today, and then there were several ...
Flipside: John Battelle Says Google Needs Twitter
Just yesterday, John posted here commenting on the refusal by Twitter to sell to Facebook for $500 million. His bottom line was that Twitter should avoid at all costs becoming the Pointcast of Web 2.0, and sell out. Today, John Battelle posts at his blog that Google can’t do without Twitter. At some point around ...
siliconANGLE Demographics – Early Adopters and Twitterers
The new open project called siliconANGLE.com is a few days old and their is an interesting stat. As expected mostly tech insiders are reading the blog early on – the firefox stats speaks to that. I’m sure the mainstream sites are the opposite with IE at the top. Interesting to see Chrome on there at ...
Virgin Going Social
Virgin is launching their new site with a social twist in mind. It was just announced at Future Of Web Apps in Miami that such internet stars as Gary Vaynerchuk, as well as Virgin’s own Richard Branson, and FOWA organizer Ryan Carson will be providing content for the new site. The part that has me ...
Safari Beta 4 Seems to Visually Impress, But Not Much Else
As you’ve probably heard, Safari Beta 4 is out, and the list of updates have been chronicled all over the place. The changes seem to be limited to a bit of a speed upgrade and a lot of user-interface changes, most of which look pretty attractive in the thumbnails I’ve seen. I’ve personally never been ...
The Financial Crisis Explained, Visually [video]
Anton Wahlman put together a very clear-spoken and thorough explanation of the financial crisis yesterday so that even armchair economists like myself can understand it. Sean Percival of Lalawag replied via Friendfeed yesterday to Anton’s post with a video by Jonathan Jarvis that visually explains not just the genesis of the crisis, but all those ...
Thanks Kara Swisher for Covering The ANGLE — siliconANGLE.com
Thanks Kara for noticing the new blog yesterday and writing a post. We all at siliconANGLE look forward to diving deeper into the stories that you report. siliconANGLE.com a new blog that is a collaboration between me and my friends. A new model in blogging and developing stories and analysis. SiliconANGLE.com
My New Blog – SiliconANGLE.com – The siliconANGLE Project
Introducing my new group blog siliconANGLE.com. Here is a post that explains why I’m moving my Furrier.org blog to SiliconAngle.com. I’ve been thinking for sometime now about starting a new blog that is different than the current blogs out there today – one that adds something new, different, and interesting to the conversation. I’m launching ...
Launching a New Group Blog Tonight
I’m launching a new group blog tonight. Look for info here and on twitter..
