Online Media Cultist

A few days ago, I noticed that a story I wrote musing about whether Twitter had become the new RSS reader had been linked to from a site called Shyftr. Clicking over to Shyftr, I noticed that the full text of my article was included on the site. My first reaction was that this was [...]

This is one smart and hilarious and bizarre slant on this Internet Party that we all get down with everyday.

“Do you want me to poke him back?” Priceless.
Warning: it’s ever so slightly naughty. But come on, it’s Friday.

I normally read Mashable, the uber-comprehensible news service of the social media world, through an RSS reader, so I was a little bit surprised when I browsed around the site last night.
Is it just me, or does it have a lot of ads?

The center column is ad-free for the most part, thankfully. But [...]

The “lifestreaming” phenomenon streams onward and upward, or at least a few companies in the venture capital space hope so.
Ustream.tv is announcing that it is raising $11.1 million, which is on the heels of Qik’s $3 million round.
In late March I noted this about Ustream: It’s a potent and timely mix, video and [...]

I’ve been obsessing over Twitter the last few weeks, and I left off yesterday’s piece with the question: has Twitter become the new RSS reader?
For me, Twitter has of late become a faster and easier and more accessible way to let the news “come to me.” Churning through endless RSS feeds – spools of [...]

A piece on Mapping the Web called Why I Stopped Reading TechCrunch and Mashable led me to consider my own take on the top tier, high volume blog publishers and how I’m moderating my own information-intake of late.
To put it more bluntly, I know I’m not alone in being terrified of my RSS reader [...]

On Friday, I noticed (via Twitter and thanks to Michael Parekh – which I discuss more fully here) a link to a chart on Compete that I found pretty startling. FriendFeed has over the past few months overtaken Pownce, a Twitter-like service.
As we can see in the chart, FriendFeed is climbing while Twitter continues [...]

The more I use Twitter, the more interesting I think it is. It does take a little bit of thinking and planning to use it in an optimal way, which is different for everyone. I think if you’re the kind of person who is online a lot and enjoys consuming large quantities of information throughout [...]

The UK has adopted a new policy in which registered sex offenders will be required to “provide their email addresses to police in a move to stop them using social networking Web sites.”
I totally get the intent here, which is of course to keep stalkers and pedophiles off of MySpace and other social networks, [...]

My interest in Twitter has had a huge resurgence over the past few weeks. Will be interesting to see if I drift away from it again or if it becomes an ongoing integral part of my interwebs activities.
For anyone who doesn’t know what Twitter is and wants a quick video explanation, I found several [...]