Online Media Cultist

There’s a great article by Andy Beard and fascinating subsequent conversation between Beard and TechMeme founder Gabe Rivera here. In short, Beard discovered that TechMeme’s Google PageRank had mysteriously dropped from a 6 or 7 to a 4 in a short period of time. Mysterious is the word, by the way, as TechMeme has always been [...]

It’s the silly season in football. Leading up to the Super Bowl, all manner of glitz and mania seem to find an outlet. And I’m all for it! Particularly when it’s a throwback to a great love of my childhood: the Tecmo Bowl. Some kind and likely obsessive soul has set the Giants and Patriots upon each [...]

After reading a rather arresting plea for Al Gore to endorse Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination for president in the Huffington Post, I scrolled down and noticed a nifty little feature that I personally haven’t come across before, called Sites Linking to This Page. It lists top sites linking into the article – in [...]

Pretty interesting and at times fascinating going on in the so called Twittersphere, that world of applications and services that have sprung surrounding Twitter. TechCrunch,UK edition, points out a pretty hilarious and intriguing one called Tweetmeme, which takes Twitter conversations and presents them in the style of Memeorandum. I’m tempted to say that Tweetmeme is a [...]

Scott Karp performs an interesting and thorough investigation of where the best place was to find breaking news about the New Hampshire primary. After reviewing Digg, Google News, and Memeorandum, he determined that the latter was the best place to figure out what stories were both the most important and most up-to-date. I would have to [...]

In a trend that we’re likely to see throughout 2008 and over the next few years, two US newspapers – the Cincinnati Post and Kentucky Post – have shut down their print editions. The Kentucky Post will live on as an online-only publication.