Online Media Cultist

It’s common knowledge now that presidential politics has moved full bore into the online world. YouTube videos, parodies, and non-sanctioned advertisements are all part of the political conversation. We’re in a presidential cycle now that sees major candidates who are female, African American, and Mormon. But has the time of presidential blogging arrived? Somewhat surprisingly, [...]

Everyone has words or terminology that they hate. For instance, I have a personal grumble with referring to inanimate objects as “sexy,” as in: My new Dell has a sexy hard drive. No, it doesn’t. Let’s leave sexiness to people, please. A new study looks at words spawned by the Internet that people hate. Blog, [...]

It’s insanely frustrating, the Internet connectivity troubles I’m having these days. In very short, I’m on the verge of making some new hardware purchases, ripping out some equipment, and switching back from DSL and giving cable broadband another go. Hopefully, I’ll be back to posting more regularly soon. You gotta keep it on the positive, [...]

A New York Times story posits that online shoppers are growing “web-weary”, bringing us to a new era of “Dot Calm.” I can only figure that writers Matt Richtel and Bob Tedeschi got caught up in the cute phraseology vortex. Their argument is sound: Internet sales are up, but just not as high as the [...]

Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign broke news of an online sort this week in announcing the endorsement of Hollywood mogul Steven Spielberg. The online part comes in where the announcement was made: HillaryHub.com. Billed as something of an anti-Drudge Report, HillaryHub.com is a really tidy and clean one page source for all things going on in [...]

The old adage is that content is king, and as an online media cultist, I still believe it. However, Mike Masnick over at Techdirt makes a compelling argument in stating content essentially equates to advertising in the YouTube era. Technology companies, for starters, are now media companies (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, etc.). Being a media company [...]

The buzz on Facebook’s “Platform” – an easy way for Facebook users to easily add custom-made-for-Facebook widgets onto Facebook profiles – continues to grow. Super quick refresher on Facebook for anyone not hip to it: it’s the MySpace of 2007. There, I said it. I was therefore motivated to take a closer look, add some [...]

As the blogosphere starts to mature in bits and spurts, earning a full-time living as a “professional” blogger is a notion and dream for thousands. A New York Times piece from the weekend looks at the growth of jobs stemming from the blogosphere. Interestingly and perhaps not surprisingly, blogging gigs tend to be much more [...]

A tectonic shift is taking place, and we’re just beginning to see the visible results. Television is slowly but surely bowing to ascendant power of the Internet as the place where people gather to discuss, interact, and increasingly watch episode video content (translation to human = television programs). Very interesting news came yesterday in that [...]

Still semi-fuming about Andrew Keen’s new book, I began reading a piece, by Time writer Joe Klein, called “Beware the Blogger’s Bile,” skeptically to say the least. Refreshingly, it’s an intelligent and balanced piece (to counter Keen’s description of his own book as “not designed to be particularly fair or balanced”!) that looks at what’s [...]