Here are some of the articles I read this week.
MarketWatch.com - Apple TV rebuffed by the cable guys
SFGate.com - The Future Of The Television Industry
LostInTechology.com - Weekly Links: September 2, 2012
Blog.Selfstoragedeals.com - How NOT to Pitch Your Guest Post
FrugalityIsFree.com - Save On Printing
DebtBlackHole.com - Nerdy Day Trips Can Help You Plan Your Geek Adventures
TV.BroadwayWorld.com - OWN Acquires Cable Rights to RACHEL RAY, NATE BERKUS
Here are my favorite articles that I have read this week. Happy Friday.
Heading Out On Your Own? The Art Of Manliness Can Help
Nuno Nono: The Future Of Preschool?
Comcast Looking To Lure NBA To Virginia Beach?
Moving to a new place? Comcast wants to help with your ‘digital’ move
Fight Website Laziness: How to Make Your Website Work Harder
My wife and I are expecting our first child. To prepare for the extra expenses that come with raising a child, we have been scouring the Internet for information to better control our financial future. Here are the top “saving money” blogs we have found (in no particular order).
We like that the Get Rich Slowly blog is very personal. The blog’s writers and readers all contribute their own stories of financial success.
Our Favorite Posts:
Building a Personal Finance Library: 25 of the Best Books About Money
How I Cut my Comcast Cable Bill by 33% (Without Losing Any Service)
Reader Story: Saving for Something Close to Home
Lifehacker is one of my favorite technology and productivity blogs. They have a Personal Finance category that provides unique ways to save and manage money.
Our Favorite Posts:
Make Yourself Save Money with Automated Text Messages
Change Your Spending Habits by Experimenting with Rewards
Save Over $1000 by Going Prepaid on Your Next iPhone
Huffington Post is on my wife’s “favorite blogs” list. She told me she likes Huffington Post because they only allow the best bloggers write for their site. Personal finance information can be found within their Money category.
Our Favorite Posts:
For Richer, Not Poorer: Five Ways to Manage Money and Marriage
6 New Ways To Save Money On Healthy Food
PHOTOS: 12 Money-Saving Tips From Couponing Expert Kathy Spencer
The Simple Dollar’s “Keep It Simple Stupid” approach works for me and my wife. When we want to quickly find financial advice that is easy to implement, we come here.
Our Favorite Posts:
Rule #11: Find and Work Toward Your True Passions.
The Vegetable Train: Six Ways We Save Money with Fresh Produce
Saving Money Versus Saving the World
Last but certainly not least is the Wise Bread blog. Their motto is “Living Large on a Small Budget.” We certainly like the sound of that.
Our Favorite Posts
10 Great Ways to Use Duct Tape
Best Money Tips: Having a Baby on a Budget
“Time Warner is investing $25 million in a high-speed fiber broadband network in New York City. “
“Apple, Google and Roku see an untapped market in set-top boxes that deliver online entertainment to the television, but after many years, some are wondering if they’ve tuned into the right channel.”
Big win for Verizon. They now have access to unused wireless spectrum from Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks, and Cox Communications
“Windows Media Center is a great DVR or PVR in many ways. Not only does it give you the opportunity to make a DVR out of stuff that you already have (i.e., your PC and cable subscription), but in some ways it’s even more powerful and flexible than a set-top box. ”
“…Cable TV is no longer the place where news breaks, and has not been so for years. Social media have done to cable TV news what cable news, in its day, did to the afternoon editions of big-city papers: shouldered aside its slower and less adaptable predecessor.”
“The broke twenty-somethings who survive off of Hulu, Netflix, bootleg streams of their favorite shows, and stealing each others’ HBO Go passwords now, might get used to a life without paying for cable, causing a generational shift in the way Americans consume things. That’s what the cable companies should worry about . “
Cable operators like Time Warner Cable appear to be shifting their focus from video subscribers to more profitable broadband subscribers.
