Online Media Cultist

The jury is certainly still out on whether or not the “new” Netscape.com – revamped into what some would herald as an innovative experiment in social news and others would deride as yet another Digg-clone wannabe – is a success or not.
But it doesn’t matter in the long run. I like to think of […]

In the blogosphere, credibility and transparency is everything. Why should you believe me? Because hopefully what I’ve written in the past is fundamentally reasonable and, even when you the reader disagrees with me, it’s because there’s an honest difference of opinion and no cause to delve into potential ulterior motives exists. Sure, I tend to […]

I’m a web cultist, as I proudly declare on the side nav, but I’m not really much of a gadgets person. If someone plops the latest whiz-gizmo in my hand, I’ll usually check it out and declare genuine enthusiasm, but I’m not of that core tech-geek cares-how-the-mechanics-work demeanor that is essential to flip out over […]

If you know what MMOPRG (massive multiplayer online role-playing game) means, then you almost certainly bow down to the WoW. World of Warcraft, an online role-playing game set in an immersive world replete with guilds, alliances, beasties, and hordes, is built on the engaging concept of completing quests to gain experience and rewards within the […]

I usually like to call out wire stories as nearly something of a hazard for news seekers online. Sure, it’s hard news in the purest form, “just the facts, ma’am,” and so on, but it’s sometimes arduous to weed your way through the very sameness of the coverage (for a current example, search for “Bush […]

One of the dirty little secrets of the Internet is that a great deal of the browsing and clicking and reading and interacting are done at the office, on the boss’ dime. And when you’ve hit that post-lunch lull and you’d like nothing better than for your desk to auto-magically transform into a luxuriant cot, […]

The best ideas are almost always the simple ones, and usually the hardest to come up with and execute effectively! MyBlogLog, a barebones social network with huge appeal and upside for bloggers, clearly did both and was rewarded with a $10 million acquisition by Yahoo!
In relation to the inflated valuations we’ve seen recently, […]

Just as writers write for many different kinds of reasons, bloggers create blogs with all kinds of purposes and goals in mind: from taking the blogosphere by storm by reporting on the latest in Quantum Leap memorabilia shows to keeping Aunt Tilly and the kids up to date about barbeque shindigs up by the lake, […]

Google, in partnership with EarthLink, will provide free WiFi service for the city of San Francisco. This may well be a landmark development in lowering the digital divide and allowing that much more access – rich and poor, majorities and minorities – to the Internet. I think it’s great for those lucky San Franciscans who […]

Feedburner has launched a new service that tracks both site traffic and RSS subscribers in one place. While many publishers use one service (such as Site Meter) to track on-site page views and another to track RSS subscribers, this is the first time a comprehensive service has been offered that allows publishers to get a […]