Online Media Cultist

All online communities — even the ones with the coolest features, the best ways to share information and media — are made up of people. And people (how many, overall “quality,” what they’re into, and so on) make or break communities. And communities aren’t static; they evolve. That’s what makes watching and thinking about them so [...]

High powered PR behind a major new web product launch is critical to getting the word out these days. There’s so much competition for attention, so much flat out going on with the interwebs at any given time that a coordinated series of press hits is one of the few ways to get on the [...]

Duncan Riley makes interesting points over at The Inquisitr, pointing out that blogging 2.0 is “the blogosphere’s first counterculture movement.” To back up a few steps though, the definition of blogging 2.0 is still evolving, and like the strange and nebulous term web 2.0 can and likely will mean different things to different people. When I [...]

Thanks go to Paul Moore at Spout for alerting me to the fact that Joss Whedon dropped word at Comic-Con that there will be more episodes of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog to come. Check out more thoughts on Dr. Horrible here and dig the trailer below: Teaser from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog on Vimeo.

As a cultist of the circus that never ends called politics, I was intrigued to read a story this morning called McCain May Act Soon on VP Pick in the Washington Post (I’m a sucker for this kind of stuff, but that’s another topic for another time). When I arrived at the story, my eyes were [...]

Though there’s no hard numbers available, the speculation is that Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog did pretty well for itself by web standards. No idea of course if that’s true or if Joss Whedon’s tragicomedy about a wannabe super villain and his quest for love even came close to covering production costs, but the model is [...]

The other day I mentioned to a friend that FriendFeed is “red hot” right now. I then paused a moment, and dialed back to say that it’s really popular with the early adopter set and has the potential to blow up huge. That led me to think about who is winning and losing, relatively speaking, in [...]

It’s difficult not to worry during bad economic times. I’m a worried-optimist of sorts, as paradoxical as it sounds, as I tend to be nervous/pragmatic about the short term but generally highly (and perhaps even) wildly optimist about the long term. Because of the latter bit, I tend to glom onto stories like this column from [...]

The early days of the Internet saw the rise of great portals – Amazon, Yahoo, eBay – mighty all-in-one stop-and-shops designed to attract and hold great chunks of the Internet audience. In today’s much more crowded and saturated environment, it’s nearly impossible to repeat such a feat. The network model seems to be a smarter play [...]

I warned all of y’all that RSS has been on my mind lately, so get ready for another adventure! On Friday, I self-congratulated about hitting 300 RSS subscribers here at the OMC (and wouldn’t you know it, we’re down to 283 as of today, oh well!), which prompted Cains over on FriendFeed to write: “I cleared [...]