Online Media Cultist

Joe’s Goals is a simple tool that lets you track whatever you want. Using a calendar, you can “check” and “minus” things like exercise, work goals, or whatever you want each day. It has the simple and elegant feel of marking something off on a calendar each day, and also let’s you jot notes in [...]

Ah, the wonders of YouTube. Since I’ve been so busy of late and shamefully ignoring the OMC, I leave you with the comic delights of Gabe & Max’s Internet Thing. True low budget comedic wunderkinds, says I. Enjoy…

Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer announced that his company is planning to buy 20 web companies a year over the next five years. Even if this assertion is hyperbolic, it shows that industry giants such as Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google are fueling up, beefing up, and counter-moving one another by gobbling smaller, nimbler, and more innovative tech [...]

It’s funny, just last week I dug Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti out of a dusty corner, put it on, and was blown away all over again. While I can’t claim that it was on original vinyl, it was the very first CD that I ever purchased, sometime in the late ’80s. It’s a great record, [...]

The first sentence of the third paragraph of a New York Times story covering Google’s launch of video ad units to its Adsense members that include YouTube videos says it all: “The service, which represents the first major combination of a Google product with YouTube, will give video creators wide distribution beyond YouTube via Google’s [...]

Sometimes when you take a step back and think about things for a moment (a la Ferris Bueller) it makes you realize we’re living in strange times. Exciting and frantic and breathtaking and crazy times and all of the rest of it, but strange times as well. Case in point: a shirt that displays actual wi-fi [...]

Last week, Mapping the Web alerted me to BlogRush, a neat little service that lets bloggers promote their wares on sites similar to theirs. The “viral effect” comes in that the more page views your site gets (promoting five headlines from similar sites each time in a BlogRush widget), the more times your site’s stories [...]

There’s lots of strong negative reaction amongst the blogospheric pontificators this morning (including some I have great respect for such as Mathew Ingram and Fred of A VC) to a Jason Calacanis piece entitled Web 3.0, the official definition. I wrote a piece this morning supporting the definition and in fact saw nothing remotely controversial in [...]

The term “web 2.0″ has been around for several years now, and has over time evolved to represent the current state of the modern Internet. It’s a ubiquitous term that can apply to things like the social networking phenomenon, fancy “drag-and-drop” applications powered by AJAX, the much reviled term “user generated content,” and even an [...]

People used to say (and maybe they still do?) that you can stay up-to-date and fairly well informed of the goings on in the world just by reading all of the stories on the front page of The New York Times each day. Well, in webby world, you can do worse than breezing through TechCrunch [...]