Online Media Cultist

I’m not exactly sure how to define videoblogging (or vlogging) but I suppose it is episodic video content that can be found online. So, if I upload a video of my cat falling off the television to YouTube, that’s not a vlog, but if I upload a series of videos showing my cat falling off [...]

Welcome to Online Media Cultist! For what OMC is all about, please see the freshly written About page, which I’ve pasted below. For now, I apologize as the final paint and polish is getting slapped on around these parts (much and huge thanks go to Blogcritics Technical Director and pal Phillip Winn for getting this site [...]

A new study produced by Clearswift shows that lots of people use “social media” and “web 2.0″ sites at work. In fact, we’re told that “87% of office workers access web 2.0 sites each week.” The implication of the study is that businesses should take note of “red flags” such as people spending too much time [...]

PayPerPost, the controversial company that pays bloggers to review products and services, has launched a new set of features, which Darren Rowse at ProBlogger breaks down as including new video ad products, targeted channels, and payment based upon traffic rankings from Alexa, Google, and Technorati. My position on what essentially is paid editorial falls somewhere near [...]

When I graduated from college and entered the business world for the first time (I had studied history – ha!) I found the word “marketing” to be an odious term. I cringed at it and felt much the same way as Lloyd Dobbler in Say Anything when he makes his convoluted speech about not wanting [...]

No wonder that hundreds of social networking start-ups – eyeing niche markets from dog enthusiasts to high level executives to moms – are sweating and grinding to peel away some of MySpace’s market share. With the announcement that MySpace is now earning “in excess of $30 million” a month in revenue, the days of speculation [...]

One of the reasons why Twitter’s audience has grown so quickly is because its open API has allowed a multitude of applications to be developed to support and enhance the Twitter-universe. The basis of Twitter’s popularity is very simple, elegant, and potentially addictive: send super short messages (maximum 140 characters) to groups of “followers” via web, [...]

Don’t get me wrong, I really dig MyBlogLog, the simple and stripped down social networking tool for bloggers with the killer app widget that lets you see and interact with the readers who visit your site. But I’m wondering if the buzz is wearing off. Maybe it’s just me, but it seems like the activity level [...]

I love Howard Fineman. He’s one of the best political writers in the business. He’s great on Hardball, and his coverage and analysis of elections and the pure sport of politics is second-to-none. But still, it’s hilarious when non-tech savvy journalists wade into those electronic weeds. The Internet is now a part of politics as it never [...]

Lots of great stuff coming out of Twitter (the wunderkind short, simple, and snappy tool that lets you post 140-character maximum rants, pontifications, links, and random musings about personal peccadilloes to groups of “followers”), I may have to make Twitters of the Day a regular feature. Jason Calacanis: correcting WSJ errors at my blog. uhhhh…. dont [...]