Archive for April, 2008

The OMC 200

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 […]

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Friendfeed versus Techmeme: can’t they just get along?

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 […]

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

The social media monster is growing

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, […]

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

On Twitter, where do you start?

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 […]

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Joining the Disqus-tion

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 […]

Monday, April 28th, 2008

The conversation migration aggregation sensation jubilation

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 […]

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Wikipedia Brown and the case of the missing bicycle

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 […]

Friday, April 25th, 2008

Optimus Maximus keyboard is fairly well optimus prime

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

Friday, April 25th, 2008

Video Comments: 5 reasons they DO work

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 […]

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Twitter and twhirl, Friendfeed and Alert Thingy

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 […]

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

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