Posts Tagged ‘Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins’

Earlier today, Adam Ostrow noticed a trending topic on Twitter, and on further investigation, it was as a direct result of an MLM marketer’s efforts to cash in on the perceived naïveté of Twitter: It might be starting to sound like a broken record, but the issue of Twitter trending topic spam continues to be Full story

This has been an odd week – very seldom have I seen the memes surrounding the death of newsprint pushed to headline status almost every single day for an entire week in the tech blogosphere, but I suppose this is the first time that Amazon has released a Kindle since it became undeniable to Full story

MediaWeek and Podcasting News are both reporting on YouTube’s apparent crackdown on “branded integration,” the newspeak way of saying promotions and product-placement.  It isn’t that they aren’t supportive of advertising (“They better be,” I can hear many of you saying…), it’s simply that they’re not to hep on people making money unless they’re making Full story

I’ve been watching Star Trek: Voyager as it’s being replayed on Spike. I vaguely remember a few of the final episodes, but I missed most of the last few seasons due to probably many of the same reasons most of you missed it: I just didn’t care at the time. But earlier this year, I made ... Full story

At some point, I’m going to do a roundup post of all the various forms of artistic robots there are, or at least the ones that I’ve come across in my travels.  I’ve personally witnessed several AI’s capable of poetry.  I’ve seen more than a few robots capable of creating original ... Full story

  Seth Godin put out one of his characteristically pithy blog posts today, tackling the idea of advertisers placing cookies on web surfer’s cache directories: As discussed before, there are networks of companies planting cookies on your machine and tracking behavior across websites. That means you'll see ... Full story