Online Media Cultist

TechCrunch reports that MySpace News, which is to be a Google News/social news hybrid for the social networking set, is expected to go live today (as of this writing at 8 am PST, it still has a password-protected wall up).
There are two broad avenues of thought when pondering a MySpace News site. The first […]

The Washington Post is one of my favorite sources for political news, and I often find myself heading over there after checking out ABC News’ The Note in the morning (which has frustratingly been in Mini-Note “under construction” mode for several weeks now).
That said, my eyes nearly popped out this very morning after reading […]

After looking at a State of the Vlogosphere report issued last month, I’ve begun to look at videoblogging in a new way. Not only is videoblogging the newest area of explosive growth within the wider blogosphere, I’ve realized, but there is no single market leader on the Internet that videobloggers can look to and say, […]

Again with the studies and the misreading of the modern online media environment.
A Reuters story cites a study which declares that user interaction on “web 2.0″ sites “remains weak” and “is far less participatory than commonly assumed.” Stats to back up this claim include .16 percent of YouTube users upload video and .2 percent […]

Far and away the twitter of the day from yesterday, and a welcome break from the Virginia Tech shootings:
Overheard: ‘it’s like dogster for babies’ - preppypunk
Such a statement puts you in the mind of the late 1990s, when it seemed as though not just any but every dot com dream was getting funded. FrozenBeerSticks.net, […]

It’s pretty difficult to not at least make mention of the terrible and deeply troubling incident at Virginia Tech today, which as of this writing has left at least 33 dead and a stunned nation wishing it could go back to squabbling about Don Imus and other relatively small issues (like online media cult-ery).
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In light of the Internet troubles that plagued me for so many months (things seem to be better over the last week or so, fingers double and crossed!) this GigaOM piece covering the dream of “100-megabit-per-second broadband connection” really struck a power chord.
Apparently, in order to move toward such an advance, the President has […]

There’s lots of techie and geeky buzz about Justin.tv of late, an EdTV scenario made real in which a random tech-warrior of the geeked out west (that would be Justin) records himself 24/7 amidst Silicon Valley adventures.

Not too long ago, another .tv had some buzz, or at least some paid buzz behind it: Bud.tv, […]

Gmail is an e-lifeline for me. It’s typically the first thing I open up when I go online, and it serves as the main channel in which I not only communicate with the world, but it’s also the place where I store an enormous amount of information and organize my online life.
One of my […]

I couldn’t sleep early this morning and wound up catching up on all manner of web geekery (you get extra points for web geekery on the weekend, I find, and triple if it’s before 8 am) when I was struck by something that Jason Calacanis said on CalacanisCast, with reference to Weblogs, Inc., the blog […]