Online Media Cultist

There’s a firestorm a-brewin’ over a Wall Street Journal piece that apparently – at least according to old school and (love ‘em or hate ‘em) A List bloggers such as Robert Scoble and Mike Arrington – gets the history of blogging completely wrong. Note to the mainstream media: probably makes sense to at least check [...]

If you’re a fan of HBO’s Entourage, you know how important Medellin – a Scarface-like biopic about Columbian drug lord Pablo Escobar – has been to the storyline for star-within-the-show Vincent Chase, his manager and best friend E, and the rest of his LA crew. After the conclusion of last night’s episode, HBO presented the [...]

comScore has released a report on global Internet traffic for May, and the usual suspects are at the top of the list: Google sites are still tops on the Internets, with over 527 million unique visitors, followed by Microsoft, Yahoo, Time Warner, and eBay. Wikipedia now sits at the #6 slot, which shows the continued [...]

For a schooling on how the big time entertainment and media companies flex their advertising and marketing e-muscles these days, check out this scenario put together by Universal Pictures (who are behind The Bourne Ultimatum, the third film in the action series starring Matt Damon) and Google. Google and Universal have announced an online game [...]

It’s crazy late and it’s been a crazy of crazy weeks (but maybe that’s when things are just right, to paraphrase Killing Zoe, no?) but I just had to mention the Nintendo Wii’s newest product offering, a Balance Board that has, according to Engadget, ” dual sensors that can detect your weight and balance on [...]

I’m not sure quite when it happened, but at some point in my life the typical cycle of conversations that I tend to hear in social settings shifted from movies, sports, and the pursuit of the opposite sex to work, family, and the real estate market. As the popularity of social networking websites continues to [...]

Starting on Tuesday, people who own a TiVo DVR (digital video recorder) will be able to order and download movies from Amazon.com and watch them on their television set. This is the kind of thing that changes everything. What I mean: the ability to seamlessly deliver video content from the Internet to the television is [...]

Gleamd is a new site that aims to mesh the popularity of social news sites (submit stories, vote for the ones you like, most popular get “bubbled up” to the front page) with social networking sites. Mashable reports that people will be able to vote for other people’s profiles, with the most popular getting highlighted [...]

A new Ipsos Insight study called The Face of the Web finds that the United States ranks fifth when it comes to the percentage of adults who have visited a social networking website. South Korea, Brazil, China, and Mexico all have a higher percentage of adults who have visited a social networking site at least [...]

My man Jason over at Webomatica wrote about Desktop Tower Defense today, which reminded me that I continue to be obsessed with the Flash-based “casual” online game. Casual because it’s the kind of game you can understand pretty quickly (the idea is to set up little towers that shoot at and stop “creeps” who are [...]