Online Media Cultist

Back in September, I excitedly announced that Online Media Cultist had hit the 100 RSS subscriber mark and mused that “we may not see triple digits again anytime soon, but for the moment I’ll take a moment to celebrate… and to thank everyone who has thought enough of this site to sign up and have […]

In an interesting piece, Alexander van Elsas muses that Friendfeed likely “will compete with services like TechMeme for the most important aggregation source of tech news.”
Techmeme aggregates breaking tech and Internet news stories through an algorithm that tracks stories by influence and links. It then ranks these stories by timeliness and importance and updates its […]

Lots of fun stats to pick through from a recent Universal McCann report on social media (found via ReadWriteWeb).
Some quick takes:
83% watch video clips, up from 62% in the last study in June 2007
The maturation of social media tools based around video has just begun. This is going to be an area of experimentation, […]

There’s been a debate going on the last few days about how “important” Twitter is, about how many regular people (read= non-geeky non-web-obsessed folk) know about it, whether or not it will ever hit a mainstream audience, and so on.
Regardless (and I think it will hit the mainstream, probably in 8-12 months), Twitter is […]

I added the Disqus comments plug-in to Online Media Cultist last night. I hope it provides value for everyone who is kind enough to leave comments. For a few anxious moments I thought I’d managed to lose all of comments made here since March of last year, but managed to resurrect them soon enough.
Please […]

Recently, I’ve been trending toward using Techmeme, a content aggregator and “meme tracker,” and Twitter, a communications aggregator and “people knowledge tracker” of sorts, as a way to bring news and information that’s relevant and valuable to me. Fred Wilson of A VC seems to be of a similar mind but theorizes that the “average […]

B.J. Novak of The Office fame brings us a hilarious reading concerning Wikipedia Brown and the case of the missing bicycle.
“I’m not perfect,” said Wikipedia Brown. “I never said I was. But I’m pretty damned good and I’m getting better by the second, and it’s all because of people like you.”

Found via Time’s […]

This keyboard from Optimus Maximus is pretty sick. And you have to give extra points for the incorporation of Oingo Boingo into the demo.

I titled this piece very deliberately in response to Josh Catone of ReadWriteWeb’s Video Comments? No Thanks – 5 Reasons They Don’t Work.
Now, I’m not a maniac fan of video comments; they don’t turn me on tremendously on a personal level. Also, not that many people have webcams so they’re not going to hit […]

I binged out on thwirl and Alert Thingy this morning, desktop applications that send you alerts from people you’re following on Twitter and Friendfeed.
Originally, thwirl was developed for use with Twitter and Alert Thingy for Friendfeed, but both thwirl and Alert Thingy now support both services, so it really comes down to which one […]