Online Media Cultist

Steve Rubel of Micropersuasion fame and Robert Scoble are two of the most “bleeding edge” power users of Google Reader around. Rubel writes mini-treatises on extracting and managing data out of Google Reader that will make your head spin, while Scoble – among other things – has been a leading user of a feature called [...]

From Mr. Cashmore over at Mashable: Streamy’s new mantra: cutting through the online noise with personalized recommendations, groups and custom filters. It’s a single view for all your blog subscriptions, Twitter feed, FriendFeed and other inputs, with the ability to post updates back to services like Twitter, Digg, Delicious and Facebook without leaving the site. Streamy Demo [...]

Great piece called Micro-Apps over on Aiden Henry’s Mapping the Web. I responded over there with the following thoughts: I very much agree, Aidan. Before reading your article, was thinking how bloated and unintuitive a lot of recent social media platforms seem to be. If I can’t figure out “why I’m here” very very quickly, I’m [...]

Yes, the economic news is a little bit wacky right about now. We all know about it, and I’m not going to focus on that here. What I am trying to stay focused on is all the good things going on. In fact I was amazed at the number of funding stories I found just [...]

Unfortunately we’ve entered a phase of dead pools and layoffs. We all know that things are going to be in the range of not-that-great to something less than that for the next while. I’ve been trying to stay positive over the last few weeks, absorbing as much as I can about how the proverbial fundamentals [...]

This is such a great song from the ’80s and still sounds remarkably fresh, doesn’t it? And pretty great video too. As a random aside, when I hear this song it always reminds me of descending down an amazingly long escalator, down into the bowels of London to catch the tube. At the bottom of the [...]

There was a time some months back when I believed that a combination of Techmeme and “smart people networks” like Twitter and FriendFeed were becoming so useful that it would lead to vastly reduced reliance on an RSS reader. I was wrong. I’m using Google Reader more than ever, and love its social features as much as [...]

This is one of the coolest ad integrations I’ve seen in a while (via Webware):

I worked for a start-up called eFrenzy in 2000 (and can you think of a name that better symbolizes the exuberance of the web 1.0 bubble than that?), which later rebranded as Nextdoor.com. It was an online platform that aimed to connect real world service providers like plumbers and nail salons with service seekers. Sometime in [...]