Online Media Cultist

I’m a sucker for lists. Come on admit it, you are too! So of course while I was messing around with Alexa today I had to check out the top websites in the United States, at least according to Alexa (which should be taken with the same grain of salt as any other web tracking service). Amongst [...]

Great piece over at Publisher 2.0 about an experiment in getting smart folks to get together to aggregate news about the presidential election. What’s great about it is that it came together lightening quick (48 hours!) and that it involved two smart, sharp, and forward-looking people on the new media frontier – Scott Karp of the [...]

I received several outstanding comments on my last piece (I still don’t get StumbleUpon) from the likes of Andy Beard, Sterfish, ganes, Lex G, and my old friend Phillip Winn from Blogcritics. It prompted me to respond with a lengthy comment that I feel deserves to be reposted here, slightly tweaked to make sense as [...]

Andy Beard’s 7 StumbleUpon Problems I Would Love to See Fixed reminded me that I’m still not getting hip to the StumbleUpon phenomenon. I responded with the following: I simply find StumbleUpon frustrating to use and comprehend in general. I’d love to make use of it as a way to submit content to a social media [...]

I noticed this Valleywag piece today, praising MSNBC for streaming its television coverage of the Super Tuesday voting online. I totally agree – it was a pleasure to be able to have a browser window open on my monitor and check in on how the historic day was proceeding while doing other work. The more I [...]

Ah, to be filthy rich and living the blogger’s life… Oh wait, there’s no such thing? Well, pretty much. The vast majority of the hyper-rich who happen to blog (and in Mark Cuban’s case, he’s both hyper and hyper-rich) get rich first and then decided to blog somewhere down that gold-lined road. Read Write Web does a [...]

Every political junkie has his or own way of absorbing up-to-the-nano information. And on Super Tuesday, there’ll be lots to keep track of (in fact there is already, with Obama taking an early big win in Georgia!). For the moment I’m checking in with Memeorandum and Drudge Report, with a dallop of Google News and CNN.com [...]