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About Curt Hopkins

Curt Hopkins is ReadWriteWeb's Production Editor. Curt is a journalist who has written for Newsweek, Reuters, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, New Times and others. He was the Social Media Manager for InterActive Corp's InstantAction gaming platform and an early hire at Ask.com, where he was responsible for tanking their stock. He lives in the Greatest State in the Union (TM) and is part of ReadWriteWeb's Oregon Mafia. He's married to @thinkyiddish. Contact Curt at curt@readwriteweb.com.

Recent Articles by Curt Hopkins

  • Malaysia Deports Saudi to Face Capital Charge for "Blasphemous" Tweet

    Hamza Kashgari, who fled his native Saudi Arabia, has been sent back to face a possible death penalty. He left the country, intending to seek political asylum in New Zealand, after a series of tweets on the Prophet Muhammad's birthday resulted in hundreds of death threats. Kashgari was apprehended at the Kuala Lumpur airport Wednesday...


  • Saudi Twitter User Faces Death Penalty for Tweets

    A 23-year-old Saudi Twitter user, Hamza Kashgari, fled the country Sunday to avoid being arrested for his religious tweets, only to find himself in the hands of the Malaysian police today. He was heading to New Zealand to request political asylum. On Saturday, the anniversary of the Prophet Muhammad's birthday, Kashgari tweeted three times, expressing...


  • [Update] Nokia Publishes Policy on Conflict Minerals

    "Conflict minerals," those mined to support groups conducting armed conflict or engaging in human rights abuses, have been an issue since long before we first wrote about it in July of 2010. The mineral equivalent of blood diamonds, they include tantalum, tungsten, tin and gold, all of which are used to manufacture our electronics. Nokia,...


  • [Video] NASA Releases 1st Footage of the "Dark Side" of the Moon

    NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission has released the first footage shot of the moon's far side. The 30-second clip (after the jump) sweeps from the moon's northern pole to the southern polar region, passing, among other features, the Mare Orientale, a 560-mile wide dry sea that extends onto the side we can...


  • [Audio Download] Lomax Folk Recordings Go Digital

    Anyone with an abiding interest in American music will have heard of Alan Lomax. His travels around the U.S. and through other countries recording "folk music" was almost single-handedly responsible for how we think about Americana and world music both. But only a small amount of his recordings were available online, with few available for...


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