Online Media Cultist

Have you noticed that web series are getting really good these days? I’m noticing that the best are trending toward being short-ish, punchy, and are increasingly starring fairly well known actors who can stretch their acting chops and have some fun on the interactive small screen. And that perfectly sums up Ctrl, an NBC.com production that [...]

If you’re anything like me, you’re chewing on your office furniture right now to help distract yourself during the infernal countdown to Mad Men Season 3’s premiere (August 16th at 10pm on AMC, but who’s counting?). Let’s hope you’re not like me, I guess. Anyway, there’s a fun little application making the rounds that allows you to [...]

When Kevin Spacey is teaching David Letterman how to use Twitter on television, you know that it’s pretty big. And when Letterman “doesn’t get it,” and Spacey jokingly chastises him for not getting it, and the crowd and audience are with Spacey, you know that it’s really big. Check it. (via CrunchGear)

I use Basecamp a great deal these days to manage projects and tasks. 37signals is a great company by the way that really cares about producing simple (in a good way), elegant projects. Recently, I missed out on a few Basecamp discussion threads as the originator of the post didn’t include “all contacts” when sending the [...]

I found this meme about FriendFeed being like “Syphilis” to be kind of odd. In short, TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington likens FriendFeed to a place where “mob justice enthusiasts” are able to thrive. It’s understandable of course that there should be concern about people “becoming comfortable writing seriously threatening stuff under their real name,” particularly for [...]

Short but interesting post by Jason Kaneshiro of Webomatica on his self-imposed “social media blackout”: At this point, Twitter is my only social networking website, getting sporadic use. Much to my surprise, I’ve enjoyed this self-imposed exile quite a bit. [...] Overall, spending less time on speculation, discussion, and criticism, and more time doing and creating things. [...]

Over the weekend, in an effort to grab some downtime while shaking a nasty cold, I rented Midnight Club Los Angeles for Xbox 360. I had such a blast (if you’re a fan of Grand Theft Auto IV, particularly its street racing aspects, you’ll dig it for sure) that I picked up the game today. I [...]

I’m continuing to enjoy using FriendFeed a little while back: Just added my posterous rss feed to FriendFeed. Blog + posterous + Google Reader shared + Twitter –> FriendFeed is a very nice way to round out a social media presence I’d say. I’m guessing this ReadWriteWeb piece slipped through the cracks for many people, but I [...]