Online Media Cultist

Sprague over at Diary of a Rat challenged me recently to write about why I blog. A quick aside: am I the only person who doesn’t particularly like using the word blog as a verb (even though I just did above)? In other words, saying that I “write a blog about online media and online [...]

Yes, Sunday night is as good a time as any to get caught up in the crazy weird spelling cat craze that’s been going around i.e. I’m in ur serverz, fixing ur bugz, etc. Make your own crazy weird spelling cat picture thing here. Why not?

Thanks to JD Lasica at Social Media for pointing out that Joseph Farah’s book, “Stop the Presses!” heralds Matt Drudge’s famous/infamous Drudge Report as the entity that inspired “the ‘blogosphere’ today.” Certainly Drudge holds a certain place in the web ecosphere. I stop by Drudge every so often – it’s a fun place to get [...]

A great deal seems to be made of Dave Sifry’s most recent State of the Live Web report, which shows among other things that while the overall number of blogs continues to rise, the number of active blogs (defined as having been updated within the last 90 days) seems to be rather stable, sitting in [...]

Along with being an online media cultist, I’m something of a TV nut. Just as I enjoy defending and promoting the greatness of the blogosphere and the Interwebs generally, one of my favorite soapbox topics is to argue that TV has the same relative mix of quality (mostly junk, some good, and a little astoundingly [...]

Rosie O’Donnell is leaving The View. Apparently she couldn’t come to a contractual agreement with ABC and therefore will leave the show in mid-June. Why do I know this? Because of the screaming headlines all across the major mainstream media Interwebs. ABC News, on its bright red Breaking News banner: Rosie O’Donnell Will Leave “The [...]

A few weeks after Photobucket lambasted MySpace for blocking its millions of users from embedding Photobucket videos on the most popular social networking site on the Interwebs, everything appears to be sunshine and roses once again. Says Photobucket: “Following discussions with MySpace, we’re pleased to announce that all Photobucket videos and remixes are enabled once [...]

We’re in the midst of boom times for Social Networking 1.0. And we might think of it in terms of being in the early fall of those boom times, because the shakeout is coming – probably starting within the next 6-12 months – and many start-ups are going to go bye bye. MySpace will still [...]

Jack Lail over at Random Mumblings was kind enough to nominate OMC for something called the Thinking Blogger Awards, which is sort of an ongoing meme where bloggy folk nominate five blogs they dig and that get their cranium cranking. According to Jack – who is the managing editor/multimedia for The Knoxville News-Sentinel – the [...]

It’s fascinating in many ways that the world’s most popular social networking site just rolled out a social news (community votes for stories, and the most popular bubble up to the top or front page for maximum exposure) platform, which would presumably compete with the likes of Digg, Netscape, and Reddit. (Check out the new [...]