Online Media Cultist

B.J. Novak of The Office fame brings us a hilarious reading concerning Wikipedia Brown and the case of the missing bicycle. “I’m not perfect,” said Wikipedia Brown. “I never said I was. But I’m pretty damned good and I’m getting better by the second, and it’s all because of people like you.” Found via Time’s [...]

This keyboard from Optimus Maximus is pretty sick. And you have to give extra points for the incorporation of Oingo Boingo into the demo.

I titled this piece very deliberately in response to Josh Catone of ReadWriteWeb’s Video Comments? No Thanks – 5 Reasons They Don’t Work. Now, I’m not a maniac fan of video comments; they don’t turn me on tremendously on a personal level. Also, not that many people have webcams so they’re not going to hit [...]

I binged out on thwirl and Alert Thingy this morning, desktop applications that send you alerts from people you’re following on Twitter and Friendfeed. Originally, thwirl was developed for use with Twitter and Alert Thingy for Friendfeed, but both thwirl and Alert Thingy now support both services, so it really comes down to which one [...]

I’m going to go slightly off-topic here this morning. Last night, while listening to the Howard Stern show (you can listen to the show 24 hours a day now thanks to Sirius Satellite Radio, which is wonderful), I heard mention of someone referred to as an “A List celebrity.” You hear this all the time, [...]

Michael Arrington wrote something that I related to in the comments section of a story about Twitter’s recent technical problems: “Friendfeed is great for keeping track of an information stream. Twitter is about conversations. very different things.” Somewhat by accident, or so I thought, that’s how I’ve come to look at my use of Twitter [...]

ABC News has produced a daily column simply called The Note since the beginning of 2002, according to Wikipedia. For political junkies and Washington’s inside-the-beltway “chattering classes,” it’s an essential read that takes a Big Picture look at the nation’s political state of affairs, and then drills in and links out to the must-read stories [...]

I love Techememe. It does a pretty remarkable job of collecting the top and hottest stories going on in tech, Internet, online media, and all the business, cultural, and social issues surrounding those worlds. It uses an algorithm based on links and “influence” to find top stories and lays out those stories and the surrounding [...]

I’ve written a few stories about Shyftr over the last week. In short, Shyftr pulls full text RSS feeds published by websites and creates community around them on its own website. Although they’ve changed how the site works (in part due to an innocent question I asked on Twitter over the weekend, which set off [...]

A semi-cerebral look at the strange phenomenon of YouTube fame on Slate makes mention of Commenter Business Meeting 2, by College Humor. This was produced last fall but is definitely worth a watch if you haven’t seen it. Think of it as what Slate refers to as Internet commenting as its own “special form of [...]