Online Media Cultist

I was truly honored and humbled to learn this week that The Industry Standard has selected Online Media Cultist as part of its Top 25 B-to-Z List Blogs.
The basis of the list is as follows:
These are the blogs you won’t see on the Techmeme Leaderboard, Technorati’s Top 100 blogs, or the CruchBase BloggerBoard […]

It’s Friday, which means it’s time for some video entertainment. I couldn’t find anything funny this week, so we’ll go with a Grand Theft Auto IV side-by-side review on the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.
A number of people asked me why I bought an Xbox recently in response to wanting to play GTA IV […]

There’s so much going on these days that it’s hard to keep up.
And for boys and girls as obsessed with the Interwebs as we are, that’s a good thing. It’s exciting times. In fact, Mark Evans says that These Are the Best of Times, noting that “we’re living in the midst of an innovation […]

Everyone I know talks about MySpace. It’s still very much the predominant social networking powerhouse on the planet, with mega millions of people friending and flirting and comment-leaving and social networking away.
As MySpace has expanded it has gone to great lengths to add lots of features and improve its notoriously wonky UI, all in […]

Sure, I understand that “useful” is a general and sometimes useless term. It’s relative and subjective; what’s useful to someone may not be to someone else.
But I pose the question nonetheless about social news sites, Digg being the grand daddy of the lot: are they useful anymore?
To be sure, Digg continues to be […]

Social networking has entered an interesting phase. There’s a ton of them, for starters. The launch of a new social networking website with “awesome web 2.0 features” and “media sharing capabilities” won’t even illicit a slow, drawling yawn anymore. There’s simply too many of them out there already, with titans MySpace, Facebook, and a handful […]

Twitter is hugely popular, growing quickly, and has attracted lots of funding and worldwide buzz and all the other things a wildfire-on-the-way-to-greatness web start-up could ever hope for.
But how’s it ever going to make money?
That’s something that people have been discussing for a long time now. Aidan Henry, who I know from MappingTheWeb […]

This video exploring new features on Google Earth 4.3 is pretty cool, and gets cooler the deeper in you go. The 3D buildings layer is amazing. Baltimore was used as the example, and it had me wishing for more episodes of The Wire!

It’s Friday, and some Fridays are more Friday than others, you know? In any event, definitely time for some videos.
I’ve been talking about Grand Theft Auto IV a lot this week both here and over on Twitter. This video posits what GTA IV would look like on the old NES.
I’m a sucker for […]

We’re living in an era where scholars – self-appointed and otherwise – are attempting to generate buzz and sell books via bizarre, “controversial,” and flat-out silly ideas about the Internet and technology.
The latest example comes in the form of Professor Jonathan Zittrain of Oxford University. Zittrain believes that the “rise of gadgets like the […]