Online Media Cultist

It’s very interesting and even strange stuff. The distinction between content and advertising is becoming less relevant all the time – it’s all about distribution, scale, and the ability to get in front of and (the next Great Realm) target specific kinds of consumers. The deal between Google and Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane to distribute [...]

Princeton University is the latest Ivy League school to begin offering textbooks on the Amazon Kindle. This is a killer idea and use of the Kindle on so many fronts: * Less weight for college students to lug around * Students can buy books from just about anywhere, without having to wait on line. And the super [...]

Joss Whedon and Neil Patrick Harris, together on the interwebs. It just might not get better than this. I’m not really sure what Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog is (it’s some kind of mini- or side-project cooked up by Whedon in the midst of the writer’s strike), but I am sure that we need it. If nothing [...]

Earlier this week, I wrote about the differences between what Hulu and YouTube are doing (stemming from Mark Cuban’s assertion that Hulu is kicking YouTube’s ass). Liz Gannes of NewTeeVee reports on YouTube CEO Chad Hurley’s comments at a tech startup dinner in Palo Alto, which reveals where the video giant may be headed. “Brand display ads [...]

It’s early. Very early. Scary early. For me, anyway. And it’s Friday to boot. But I’m up, I’ve got my coffee, I’m into the interwebs, and my dog is eyeing me suspiciously yet ever hopefully. I head to ABCNews.com as I do most mornings to check out The Note, an indispensible daily guide to what’s going on [...]

One of the best things about Twitter is the ability to reply to people. The convention is that you use the @ symbol, followed by the person’s username that you’re responding to, followed by your comment. That allows others to see who you’re responding to, and is flattering and creates value for the original poster. Keeping [...]

Mark Cuban, one who always loves to throw a curve ball into the conventional wisdom gulfstream, says that Hulu is kicking YouTube’s ass. Not in terms of visitors or video views, though. Cuban is more concerned with where things really count – making money and the potential to make even more. The rationale, in short, is that [...]

I spent the last week in New York visiting friends and family. While I was far more “unplugged” than usual, I still managed to stow away a few observations about tech and the web from the road. * The mobile web is an amazing resource while traveling The best example I can offer for this began when [...]

Something happened today that I don’t think I’ve ever seen before: both tech-focused Techmeme and politics- and news-centric Memeorandum lead with the same story (Here’s Our New Policy On A.P. Stories: They’re Banned, by Michael Arrington of TechCrunch). So it seems that the backlash against the Associated Press’ DMCA takedown requests, directed at the Drudge Retort, [...]

Back when I used to read print publications on a regular basis (seems like so very long ago now!) I enjoyed reading Newsweek cover-to-cover. A favorite feature of mine – that they still do and offer online – is called Conventional Wisdom, where they run down personalities and stories of the week, giving each an [...]