Online Media Cultist

A few weeks ago, I finally decided to do something about the fact that tagging on Online Media Cultist had been broken for some time. And that led to a general tinkering and design reboot session that has resulted in a fairly significant change to the way the homepage looks and how the site is organized overall.

I’m very happy and excited about the results. The homepage has a much more online magazine-like look, but still maintains a “reverse chronological” feel that is to me true to the blogging tradition.

I’m also using categories for the first time. Looking back at the three year history of OMC (oh man, it’s been three years already!), I realized that while most things I write about are very much tied to Internet and online media topics, I do stray far afield every now again (particularly when I get into a Posterous mode). So I’ve split things into three main categories:

OMC – All the online media cultery you can handle. Some good recent posts include Digital Curation and the Future of the Internet and an interview with Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis.

Memes & Oddball – This is kind of a grab bag of stories that include Internet memes that aren’t strictly about media and tech (like a riff on the Kanye West meme with rap star Xzibit) but is also “oddball” in the sense that it includes stories that don’t really sync up with anything else (like a quick link over to Ain’t It Cool News with regard to Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds).

Television – Finally, I can’t help getting obsessive-y about TV every now and again. I try to tie it to the webs where I can (like with showcasing Slate’s amazing TV Club coverage of Mad Men), but sometimes I simply must point to some element of classic television lore).

This is not necessarily 100% locked yet. I’m going to let it go for a while and see how things play. For example, I may change the name of the “OMC” category as it’s kind of a placeholder for “most of the stories on the site.” And since I made the switch pretty much everything has been OMC. Which is a good and appropriate thing I guess.

Most of all, I’m trying to continue to write about things that turn me on about the Internet, social media, content aggregation, blogging, and entrepreneurship.

Thanks so much to all of you who have stopped by and commented over the years, and here’s to at least three more!