Online Media Cultist

Before we blog focus, I strongly recommend that you read David Carr’s New York Times piece called The Fall and Rise of Media. It’s a pretty extraordinary recent history of traditional media vs. “new media,” New York City, and the massive and convulsive changes that continue to rock the media and tech industries, and our [...]

Chris Brogan turned me onto a project called the Lemonade Movement: More than 130,000 advertising professionals have lost their jobs in this “Great Recession.” Lemonade is about what happens when people who were once paid to be creative in advertising are forced to be creative with their own lives. The trailer looks interesting and compelling: Obviously, the economy and [...]

I thought I’d try something a little different this holiday season and whip up a list of ten gifts that webby people would truly enjoy. And by webby people I mean me, so have at it in the comments if you’d like to make your own recommendations! Amazon Kindle I’m a huge fan of the Kindle. It [...]

Well, you know that when James Cameron spends a decade working on a new flick, he’s not going to go light on the marketing. The result, on the webby side at the least, is awfully intriguing. The Official Avatar Interactive Trailer is an Adobe AIR app that brings the trailer for the lavishly expensive and highly anticipated [...]

In a recent Blog Focus column, I focused on the buzz surrounding Xbox Live’s addition of social media applications such as Facebook and Twitter. Quoting myself, I wrote that “this is a significant development that further brings the big time gaming, broadcast media, and social media worlds together… and you don’t even need to leave [...]

My brain perks up when I notice some of the Internet’s leading voices saying similar things. Exhibit A: Steve Rubel is talking about digital curation and the role that brands can help play to find “good stuff.” In AdAge, Rubel notes that while Facebook and Google are dominating our attention online today, there’s an enormous [...]

It was a little thing but a much debated thing nonetheless for quite a little spell. Twitter asked its teeming tweeting millions “What are you doing?” though for a great long time that questions was somewhat and then completely irrelevant. From breaking news coverage on the ground to summing up political courage of the oppressed [...]

Jason Calacanis is the CEO of Mahalo.com, “a human powered search engine,” as well as the former co-founder of Weblogs, Inc. and GM of Netscape. His latest mission (quest?) is to ensure that entrepreneurs are never forced to pay to pitch to angel investment firms. Jason was kind enough to provide his take via e-mail on [...]

You’re blasting monsters back to the depths of hell, or watching seasons 8-14 of South Park straight through, or doing some kind of special black ops mission behind the beaches of Normandy circa late spring ’44, let’s say. You know, a typical Saturday afternoon on the couch. Now, here comes the dilemma: you already have your [...]

Online advertising is “booming,” according to The New York Times… if they’re running before, after, or during a video, that is. Therefore, many bloggers and industry observers are going to be keeping a close eye on Google’s experimentation with “skippable” online video ads, or advertising that can be “clicked off” to skip the ad and [...]