Online Media Cultist

Starting on Tuesday, people who own a TiVo DVR (digital video recorder) will be able to order and download movies from Amazon.com and watch them on their television set.
This is the kind of thing that changes everything.
What I mean: the ability to seamlessly deliver video content from the Internet to the television is […]

Gleamd is a new site that aims to mesh the popularity of social news sites (submit stories, vote for the ones you like, most popular get “bubbled up” to the front page) with social networking sites. Mashable reports that people will be able to vote for other people’s profiles, with the most popular getting highlighted […]

A new Ipsos Insight study called The Face of the Web finds that the United States ranks fifth when it comes to the percentage of adults who have visited a social networking website.

South Korea, Brazil, China, and Mexico all have a higher percentage of adults who have visited a social networking site at least […]

My man Jason over at Webomatica wrote about Desktop Tower Defense today, which reminded me that I continue to be obsessed with the Flash-based “casual” online game. Casual because it’s the kind of game you can understand pretty quickly (the idea is to set up little towers that shoot at and stop “creeps” who are […]

I’ve spent way more time than I would like over the past year trying to figure out how to get consistent Internet connection to my apartment. Like way more time. In talking to people about the vagaries of cable broadband, DSL, fiber optic services, and the like, I’ve come to learn that there’s a real […]

If you’re anything like me, you’re constantly battling information overload and time crunch crises. RSS is a simply amazing way to automatically pull stories and information to you without needing to go out and find it each day.
However, I realized recently that I felt a bit buried by the number of feeds that I […]

For any web community, it’s worthwhile to debate the point at which you “force” a visitor to register for your site or login. Can people see all of your content, for example, without logging in? Many times, the right place to force the registration/login is when the visitor wants to interact with the website, such […]

Online media jobs rose at a rate of 15% last year, while television-related jobs increased by 2%, and newspaper jobs decreased by 2.7%.
I’ve been through both the boom and bust of the technology bubble, and I can tell you firsthand that the boom is better! But all signs are that we’re now (fingers crossed) […]

I spend a lot of my writing time cheering on the Internet, defending and promoting bloggers and the blogosphere, and generally expressing awe about the incredible online age we’re living in.
But there’s another side to it of course – better and easier and cheaper and more accessible communication and collaboration tools means that agendas […]

The Internets went through a dark period a few short years back. In retrospect it looks a little bit like when people scoffed at that whole trendy-passing fad-driving-an-automobile-thing.
At the risk of making a creaky analogy, this “web 2.0″ era may be akin to the days of the production line and Ford’s Model T. In […]