Online Media Cultist

I’m going to go slightly off-topic here this morning.
Last night, while listening to the Howard Stern show (you can listen to the show 24 hours a day now thanks to Sirius Satellite Radio, which is wonderful), I heard mention of someone referred to as an “A List celebrity.” You hear this all the time, […]

Michael Arrington wrote something that I related to in the comments section of a story about Twitter’s recent technical problems: “Friendfeed is great for keeping track of an information stream. Twitter is about conversations. very different things.”
Somewhat by accident, or so I thought, that’s how I’ve come to look at my use of Twitter and […]

ABC News has produced a daily column simply called The Note since the beginning of 2002, according to Wikipedia. For political junkies and Washington’s inside-the-beltway “chattering classes,” it’s an essential read that takes a Big Picture look at the nation’s political state of affairs, and then drills in and links out to the must-read stories […]

I love Techememe. It does a pretty remarkable job of collecting the top and hottest stories going on in tech, Internet, online media, and all the business, cultural, and social issues surrounding those worlds. It uses an algorithm based on links and “influence” to find top stories and lays out those stories and the surrounding […]

I’ve written a few stories about Shyftr over the last week. In short, Shyftr pulls full text RSS feeds published by websites and creates community around them on its own website. Although they’ve changed how the site works (in part due to an innocent question I asked on Twitter over the weekend, which set off […]

A semi-cerebral look at the strange phenomenon of YouTube fame on Slate makes mention of Commenter Business Meeting 2, by College Humor.
This was produced last fall but is definitely worth a watch if you haven’t seen it. Think of it as what Slate refers to as Internet commenting as its own “special form of […]

Almost everyday, I’ll read something on the web that refers to another website, online service, or application that makes me think: I need to check that out when I get a chance.
Thought it might sense to roll out a semi-regular column where I take a look at these sites. Hopefully the idea will be […]

So it looks like Jordan Golson, the Valleywag writer who boldly (and perhaps foolishly) published his misgivings about his employer’s changes in payment policy, got fired.
Maybe Golson got fired because he outed Valleywag’s pay-less-for-more-work scheme, or maybe it was due to the mysterious “something elses” that Paul Boutin alleges.
Either way, I’ve decided that I’ve […]

It’s often been said by myself and others that Twitter, amongst many other uses, is a great tool for live event coverage and for keeping groups of people informed during an emergency.
Now in what could become a story that makes Twitter much better known throughout the world, we’ve learned that it has helped rescue […]

I expressed some pretty strong concerns about Shyftr over the weekend, a site that (until Sunday, at least!) creates community around full text RSS feeds.
There are pretty strong opinions on both sides of the debate. One of the best counter-arguments to my stance came from Scott Karp, who believes strongly in “information disintermediation” (a let […]