Online Media Cultist

Growing up on Long Island, it was my daily ritual to grab whatever part of Newsday I could get my hands on to read during breakfast. These days, I have my laptop and while I do a cursory scan of the news headlines (and typically get a shot of politics via ABC.com’s The Note), it’s [...]

Interesting report from an AlwaysOn panel over on Between the Lines with regard to “Power Blogging” (I guess not even blogging is immune from becoming hyperbolically super or powerful!). I particularly fixated, as I am wont to do, on Peter Rojas’ (of Engadet fame) comment that bloggers should choose “a niche or area you want to [...]

A subject area that I’ve paid increased attention to of late is how traditional media companies – large media companies who predate the Internet era and are now online – are looking at ways to adapt and stay relevant in the ever evolving and revolving online world. Recently, I’ve looked at how Reuters is utilizing [...]

I’m not talking about diamonds and greenbacks and mink stoles (e-mink stoles?) or even corporately valuable documents and business silos of data and such, but about the ever burgeoning amount of web addresses, login/usernames, passwords, PINs, codes, and on and on that are necessary to support our modern online life. I’d bargain that an increasingly annoying [...]

I was in the dark about it myself until I read Mark Cuban’s brief coverage of it over on Blog Maverick. I then quickly swung over to Blogcritics and picked up on the great Sal Marinello’s coverage: …the horrific story of how Genarlow Wilson, a then 17-year-old high school football player, was sentenced to 10 years in [...]

Cuts in U.S. media jobs rose by 88 percent in 2006, 17,809 positions slashed versus 9,453 in 2005, according to a new Challenger Gray & Christmas survey. Large traditional media organizations such as The New York Times Company and Time Inc. were cited as having to reduce staff in order to compensate for reduced revenue [...]

I’m a big fan of MyBlogLog, a simple and barebones social networking community that wields considerable power through its use of widgets and its appeal to the innate desire of bloggers to promote themselves. A quick signup process gives bloggers a simple MyBlogLog profile where they can add sites that they author or co-author. Site members [...]

We all know that the power of Google is omnipresent, right? That’s a given. Zillions of people search Google.com googillions of times a day, creating search engine-driven traffic to sites and blogs the world over. That many millions of dollars exchange hands due to these actions, via Google Adwords and Adsense and advertising on referral [...]

Mashable, a blog that tags itself with the line “social networking 2.0,” has emerged as a leading source for news and analysis of the hyperactively growing nebula of web products and services that fall loosely under the handle of “social media” or “web 2.0″ (think everything from social networks to widgets to new fangled web [...]

People are reading them blogs. More than ever before, many probably don’t even realize it. Unique visitors to the blogs published by the top 10 U.S. newspapers has more than tripled year-over-year (1.2 million in December ‘05, 3.8 in December ‘06), according to Nielsen/NetRatings, accounting for 13% of traffic to these sites. Five years ago, very few [...]