Online Media Cultist hits the 300 RSS subscriber mark
It’s become something of a happy tradition to do a little self-referential shout out and huge thank you note to all of y’all when Online Media Cultist achieves a new RSS subscription milestone. This is the third occasion, at the 300 mark, which certainly gives me a great excuse to thank everyone who has taken the time to check out the site and give it a regular spin on one’s RSS reader of choice.
This site hit 200 subscribers just two and a half months ago, so it’s been remarkable to me to see the growth since. Topics fascinating to bloggers and content publishers but perhaps absolutely groan-inducing to others include: what’s the right editorial balance? What’s the right publishing volume? What’s the right mix of fact and “link journalism” and personality and opinion?
These are things I’m always thinking about, but most of all I’m trying to be true to myself in writing about things that turn me on and that I would want to read about. I’m a web producer by trade, which only leaves a finite time to write about my “cultural learnings” (apologies for the Borat reference!) of the online webospheres. I won’t chase every big or hot story going on unless I feel I have something valuable to add to the conversation. But of course, sometimes I can’t help myself. Interpreting a Jerry Yang e-mail to investors and speculating about a potential Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo yesterday, perhaps a little too presumptively, is a great example.
That said, here are some stories that pretty well represent the direction of the old OMC over the past few months:
* I wish FriendFeed or Google Reader would tell me who’s sharing my stories
* The post-blogging generation
* Twitter and FriendFeed: where the future may tread
* The future of content may come in the form of a Cavalcade
* ABCNews.com, please stop with the video ad autoplays
* Amazon’s Kindle and the tipping point
* How do bloggers hold onto the value they’ve created?
* The online video revolution will be televised… on television
* Blogging 2.0: from surviving to thriving
* Bridging the Blogging 1.0 and Blogging 2.0 divide
* Online Media Cultist honored by The Industry Standard (I’m already self-propping here, so… 
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* The rambling shambling social networking funhouse that is MySpace
* Are social news sites like Digg useful anymore?
* Gadgets threaten the Internet’s future? Ridiculous
* Using smart content aggregation and smart people networks to beat back the over coverage plague
* Creative destruction and the online video gold rush
* Good traffic, bad traffic, silly traffic, traffic traffic
I take all of the great feedback I get very seriously, and am always amped to respond to comments, e-mails, and other hails of the digital sort. If you’ve got any thoughts or just want to rap about things online media, drop me a line at dumpsterbust@gmail.com
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- The post-election edition
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