Online Media Cultist

Can you imagine living in a society where one day the government decides it’s not so into that whole “Google thing” and decides to up and block it for the whole country? Well, that’s what happened in Iran.
It’s commonplace and even fun in the United States to complain about Google. They’re too big, have […]

TV is heading online, even if most people aren’t fully aware of it.
Let’s do the math while dispensing with the numbers (it’s Friday, you know?): People, and especially young people, are online. Broadband penetration is high. People watch video online. Many people spend more time online than they do in front of a television […]

Yet more confirmation is rolling in that the Internet revolution will not be televised… Okay that’s a terrible pun but it’s fascinating to look at the dramatic shift in how ad spending is being allocated across different forms of media.
According to TNS Media Intelligence, online ad spending is way up while television, newspaper, and […]

When Google News announced that it was going to add “participant comments” last month, I had a lot of questions, such as:
* How are “participants” found, invited to comment, and verified as participants?
* Will participant comments be able to be commented upon by “non-participants” i.e. regular folk?
One month in, it’s been reported that “so […]

After a week or so of swirling rumors, it has been revealed that Netscape is going to move its “social news experiment” (read = Digg clone) to a new URL at www.propeller.com. Meanwhile, Netscape.com will revert back to its old school portal roots.
In my view what all of this means is as yet unclear. […]

Blog search engine and aspiring social media portal Technorati has had some well publicized troubles of late, including the resignation of CEO David Sifry and a round of layoffs.
In an effort to turn the page, perhaps, and to stay relevant in the rapidly evolving social media aggregation and search game, Technorati has announced the […]

Things are close to being back to normal, going through a DNS change right now that will account for some lagging wackiness.
Thanks very much to Eric F of Backward Five for your kind words – unfortunately your comment was wiped out during the switchover!

MSNBC.com and Conde Nast (which owns a bunch of print and online properties such as Bon Appetit, Vanity Fair, Vogue, GQ, Self, and Glamour) announced a content partnership last week that will allow MSNBC.com to feature stories from Conde Nast’s assorted offerings.
MSNBC.com already has a pretty great array of offerings, including NBC news and Newsweek […]