Online Media Cultist

I’ve spent way more time than I would like over the past year trying to figure out how to get consistent Internet connection to my apartment. Like way more time. In talking to people about the vagaries of cable broadband, DSL, fiber optic services, and the like, I’ve come to learn that there’s a real [...]

If you’re anything like me, you’re constantly battling information overload and time crunch crises. RSS is a simply amazing way to automatically pull stories and information to you without needing to go out and find it each day. However, I realized recently that I felt a bit buried by the number of feeds that I [...]

For any web community, it’s worthwhile to debate the point at which you “force” a visitor to register for your site or login. Can people see all of your content, for example, without logging in? Many times, the right place to force the registration/login is when the visitor wants to interact with the website, such [...]

Online media jobs rose at a rate of 15% last year, while television-related jobs increased by 2%, and newspaper jobs decreased by 2.7%. I’ve been through both the boom and bust of the technology bubble, and I can tell you firsthand that the boom is better! But all signs are that we’re now (fingers crossed) [...]

I spend a lot of my writing time cheering on the Internet, defending and promoting bloggers and the blogosphere, and generally expressing awe about the incredible online age we’re living in. But there’s another side to it of course – better and easier and cheaper and more accessible communication and collaboration tools means that agendas [...]

The Internets went through a dark period a few short years back. In retrospect it looks a little bit like when people scoffed at that whole trendy-passing fad-driving-an-automobile-thing. At the risk of making a creaky analogy, this “web 2.0″ era may be akin to the days of the production line and Ford’s Model T. In [...]

In the race to get out in front of blogospheric attacks and win the politics PR battle on the online front, it’s safe to say that Hillary Clinton is at the very least going in with way more troops than anyone else. I wrote about HillaryHub.com a few weeks ago, a sort of Drudge Report-rebuttal [...]

MySpace, while still by far the most popular social networking site in all the humanoid galaxies, may be starting to peak out in terms of traffic and usage. In the UK, at the least, MySpace overall traffic dropped in May while traffic to second-tier powerhouses Bebo and Facebook increased. Interestingly, average time spent on Facebook [...]

Lost Remote reports that popular gossip site TMZ.com will branch out into a half hour syndicated television show starting on September 10. TMZ’s bluster aside – “We’ve become like The Associated Press in the world we cover,” says founder Harvey Levin – this is yet another sign that the online world is competing with television [...]

Apparently there’s been a bit of a brouhaha the last few days over allegations that sites that use Federated Media as an advertising partner were sullying their credibility in some way by taking payoffs to write “advertising content.” Mike Arrington of Techcrunch came out swinging hard against all critics this morning, and particularly against FM [...]