Online Media Cultist

Do a search for a current news story at a popular news aggregator/search engine, and you’re likely to get a large number of results. But the catch is that most of the results are likely to be the same or very close to the same, because all the news sources that have picked up the […]

Influential tech blogger Michael Arrington announced the “Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn’t Live Without” for 2007 today. The list of 15 web services – including Digg, Flickr, Gmail, Skype, Techmeme, Wordpress, and YouTube – is interesting as a collection in several ways.
My first thought is that while most of these services didn’t exist two […]

I’ve spent a lot of time studying social news sites over the last year or so, particularly digg, netscape, newsvine, shoutwire, and reddit. Trying to figure out how to get “your” story on the front page of one of these sites is a tantalizing art, a frustrating science for any publisher. And short of flat […]