Online Media Cultist

Just a few short years ago, the idea that blogging could be a full time job seemed farfetched. Yet today there are a number who manage to do this, though the hours required are infamously brutal and the work required great. These days it makes sense to blog for profit in pajamas, since you’re going [...]

That quote is pulled from a ReadWriteWeb piece talking about how the lonnnnnnng awaited Guns n’ Roses album, Chinese Democracy, has just been released through the band’s MySpace profile page.
It’s a pretty extraordinary statement, and helps to highlight the immense role that the Internet now plays in promotion, marketing, and commerce, particularly with regard [...]

Lordz bless the old local TV station WPIX in New York. Every once in a while, they would run an all night marathon of such shows as Monty Python’s Flying Circus or The Twilight Zone, and I absorbed as much pop cultural influence from those events as anything else that I can remember growing up.
So [...]

While overly simplistic, I’m starting to look at the current state of the web and its recent history as follows:
* Web 1.0 – Amassing great storehouses of content and letting people do interesting things with it within specified “silos” (I hate that word by the way, but it’s useful here!). Think Yahoo, Amazon, eBay, Excite
* [...]

Beyond being an online media cultist, I’m also a devout TV geek. So therefore I’m of course obsessed with Dexter, Showtime’s wonderful, whimsical, and occasionally haunting tale of a “good serial killer.”

Every episode has a theme, and this week the Butterfly Effect was thrown around, which is described as “the idea that a butterfly’s [...]

Felicia Day is a talented actress, writer, and producer, and gets it to boot:
Felicia Day, the creator of The Guild and star of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, talked today about how different the world of Hollywood and the web are. Speaking at the NewTeeVee Live conference she said there’s a complete disconnect between the [...]

Here’s my new thinking: probably the best and most successful bloggers will also tend to be the best blogger/microblogger hybrids, and vice versa.
Now let me explain.
Over the summer I wrote several pieces about this emerging idea called Blogging 2.0. My sense at the time was that successful bloggers (more on how to define [...]

I can’t help passing along the opening theme to an ’80s cheesetastic wonder… Small Wonder, matter of fact:

(via Boing Boing)
Some kids used to make fun of me back in the day, saying I looked like the little boy on the show. There, now I’ve revealed far too much.
Update: And as weird aside, I [...]

There were so many stunning and compelling and fascinating stories that came out of the US elections of 2008 I won’t possibly try to wrap up that gargantuan story with a tidy bow. However, I did want to pass along some of the more web-related stories that caught my eye in the days after Barack [...]

I’ve been throwing the term “post-web 2.0″ around lately mostly as a means of discussing what’s going on right now and what will come next. We know what’s happening now (in part): the economy is shaky, funded start-ups are scrambling to get cash flow positive, and the overall attitude in the Internet industry is less [...]