Online Media Cultist

There’s been a good deal of teeth gnashing of late in blogospheric circles about the increasing challenge of maintaining relationships and keeping track of information given the number of popular “micro-blogging,” social networking, and other kinds of “short form” communications platforms now in vogue with the hyper-connected set. It’s become a matter of trying to find [...]

There’s no one more interesting to read, in looking at the future of technology from a consumer standpoint, than Mark Cuban. Case in point is a recent piece called IntraNets vs InterNets, in which the Blog Maverick speculates that the future of the Internet is actually… not the Internet, but Intranets, “a contained network managed to [...]

My obsession with television is something that peeks through every now and again (okay, maybe every again!). Which is a good thing for me in writing an obsessed-with-the-web blog (that being the OMC) because increasingly “TV shows” are video programs that you can watch on a standard television, the Internet, or both. Over the last few [...]

Prom Queen was a nifty little experiment. It’s a show (regular humans would call it a TV show or web show, geeks might call it original episodic online video content) about high school kids, a soapy trendy mystery thriller for the Generation Y set. Each episode is a briskly paced 90 seconds, and new ones [...]

If you’re the founder of a floundering web 2.0 company and you decide to call out TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington for “complete journalistic incompetence” for calling out your company for its flounderingness, you probably should be really really sure that your company isn’t actually floundering, let alone circling the drain of ye olde dead pool. In [...]

A thoughtful and no doubt well edited piece in Salon called Let us now praise editors raises a number of interesting and timely issues about the intersection of “online writing,” a quick and on-the-scene activity in a general sense, and editing, a slow and time-consuming and deliberative one. In the olden days of yore, timeliness meant [...]

Dear Jason Goldberg, CEO of Jobster: When an old friend of mine went to work for you (business networking site Jobster) last year (he since left), I decided to check it out for myself and sign up for a profile. It’s a site that tries to make business networking friendlier than competitor LinkedIn while helping you [...]

Not so long ago in relative terms people who owned things such as car phones and fax machines were likely fodder for Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. Today, it’s easier than ever to reach people and to be reached. Nowadays we have e-mail, which is still one of the best and most amazing things you [...]

I’m headed out of town for the weekend and will be mostly offline, so this cultist will surely be feeling some withdrawal symptoms soon enough. The online media cultery will be back, stay tuned.

During what should be the happiest and most triumphant moments of author JK Rowling’s career, there’s enough going on that she likely wouldn’t mind summoning her fictional dementors to wreck havoc on those who would challenge her wishes for the release of the seventh and final tome in the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly [...]