Online Media Cultist

As online video producers experiment, fumble, and tinker their way toward a model for making money on scripted online video content, an old school premise emerges on the new media scene: product placement.
It makes sense. Because online video needs to be able to be seen where there’s audience (see: YouTube), advertising that is already [...]

Scott Karp of Publishing 2.0, one of the crazy-smartest people writing about the interwebs and what-it-all-means today, continues his exploration of the over coverage of breaking news stories with a piece called The Declining Value Of Redundant News Content On The Web. In this case, Karp uses the Microsoft-Yahoo non-merger aftermath as a means to [...]

Mark Cuban wrote a piece last night about “the failings of Internet video and the expectation of free content,” which references a Bernstein Research report called And Now for the News…The Emperor Has No Clothes.” Cuban’s premise is that “the a la carting of video on the net” will force video production budgets to be [...]

When it comes to hardcore gaming – online role playing games, World of Warcraft, intense first-person shooters, adventuring off into Nintendo Wii land with magic wands made “real” – I’m what they call a n00b. A newbie. I appreciate all of these activities intellectually, understand that they’re huge huge business nowadays, and love hearing people [...]

Before this week, if someone had brought up the Grand Theft Auto franchise to me, I would have shrugged my shoulders and perhaps offered a vague recollection that some values groups were in a panic years ago when the San Andreas version came out.
That’s all changed now. Grand Theft Auto IV is absolutely stunning, [...]

It’s Friday, time for some fun. This video is somewhat derivative of the truly hilarious Internet party, but it’s still pretty good stuff.
Imagine if Facebook were real life, and its human agent was a smug British man who randomly shows up at your door. Enjoy…

Found via Laughing Squid.

Just as speculation was heating up that Twitter is considering abandoning its Ruby on Rails framework for PHP or Java, it hit another big service downtime snag this afternoon and into this evening.

Interestingly and not surprisingly, chatter about Twitter switched over to Friendfeed, which does a lot of business – and quite well at [...]

Hang out with any website publisher long enough, and the subject will eventually turn to traffic. Numbers. Depending, the terms uniques, page views, impressions, or even hits may be tossed around. All web publishers are interested in the subject, even if some take a pointed disinterest in knowing how many people are visiting their site. [...]