Online Media Cultist

DRM, Digital Rights Management, is a technical means of restricting the use of media. In other words, it can control how many times an MP3 can be played, for example, or how many devices it can be played on, how many times it can be downloaded, and so on.
This was thought to be a […]

I’m fascinated by how the web is being utilized to transform peoples’ lives and in many real ways is accelerating the pace of change.
Cultural change fostered by web-based communication and interaction is something we’re going to be hearing a lot about, particularly outside of the United States and Europe. In India, for example, a […]

I’m sure that some people really are addicted to the Internet. I’m probably one of them! I can and will “unplug” from time to time (”I can quit anytime I want,” he said…) but truth be told I’m online for large chunks of most days. I get tired and burned out and haggard like everyone […]

A piece in Toronto’s Globe and Mail points out that Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, home of popular Internet domain registration service Register.com, is the listed contact address for those web publishers who wish to remain anonymous.
In other words, for a few dollars more, you can run a website while remaining relatively anonymous from the rest […]

There’s barrelfuls of chatter to spare today stemming from the announcement that David Sifry is stepping down as CEO of Technorati, and that the blog search engine/portal is laying off eight employees. That, coupled with news that PodTech CEO John Furrier is stepping down is causing speculation about where the web 2.0 cycle is at […]

Great snapshot statistics of where advertising dollars were, and more importantly where they’re headed, over at Internet Outsider.
The upshot:
US advertising revenue at 4 big online media companies–Google (GOOG), Yahoo (YHOO), AOL (TWX), and MSN (MSFT)–grew by $1.3 billion in Q2, or 42%.
US advertising revenue at 15 big television, newspaper, magazine, radio, […]

All bloggers, and all writers for that matter, can’t help but find the notion of a paid writing gig to be magical. No matter how poorly the job pays and how dull the assignment, there’s something glorious and inspiring about getting handed cash for the mere creation of words, sentences, and paragraphs powered by original […]

The Internet may still very nearly spin around the axis (matrix?) of Google search, but people like Yahoo’s content and services at least a little bit better, according to a new study from the University of Michigan American Consumer Satisfaction Index.
The relaunch of Yahoo’s portal is cited as a reason why Yahoo’s customer satisfaction […]

In today’s over hyped and media drenched and hipster-infused marketing-speak world, something (and more likely somethings) is inevitably and constantly catching buzz and flames of fire across the spectacular void of the Interwebs. Twitter, Pownce, Joost, iPhone, ahoy!
Something’s always the new black, in other words.
Now we have a helpful new diagram to help […]

TechCrunch is reporting that AOL is considering killing off the current incarnation of Netscape, “the ‘Digg Clone’ social news site that they launched a little over a year ago at Netscape.com, and redirecting traffic to the Netscape portal instead.”
If true this is one of the most surprising moves I’ve seen this year. Reports […]