Online Media Cultist

If you’re at all a fan of the sport of politics, this has been a fascinating political season, and we’re just now gearing up for the frenzy of the proverbial playoffs. With each fresh cycle, there’s an ever increasing amount of websites dedicated to convincing, explaining, exhorting, spinning, pontificating, and synthesizing what’s going on in [...]

I don’t receive as much spam as I used to, which I attribute to gmail doing a pretty great job at sifting out the junk. However, there’s always the strange the occasional ones that get through, including a rather striking and depressing clunker that I received today advising me of the dangers of electing a [...]

I love HBO’s The Wire. I mean love. It’s so gritty, so real, has such great characters, great writing, great stories, and is occasionally deeply and richly and oddly funny in that way that The Sopranos defined. And I dig exec producer David Simon – from everything I’ve seen he’s super smart, interesting, and obviously [...]

A very interesting piece in the LA Times today talks about the potential for striking Hollywood writers to turn to the web with new venture capital-backed properties. If the strike ends tomorrow perhaps these stories will die down, but it’s looking more likely that the transition of major players – top tier Hollywood creative talent [...]

Mapping the Web is disappointed in “Big Blogs,” and I get the point to an extent. Successful bloggers turn into rich bloggers by taking a step back, running the business, marketing, and advertising side, and hire writers to carry out the vision that they used to solely handle. For me, I go through phases where [...]

Time Magazine bills its comprehensive 50 Top 10 Lists of 2007 as “a yearbook of all the top events you’ve been talking about.” So as we get into the Top 10 Websites section, I fully expected to get inundated with full blasts of Facebook and YouTube and other titans of webby world. At the very [...]

The blogosphere took a strange turn (but aren’t they all?) for me recently when I learned that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran – he of wanting to destroy Israel fame, and so on – gets his blog on every now and again. Not only that, but he either takes a relatively liberal view on [...]

I needed an excuse to break my shameful spell from the OMC, and hopefully I’ve struck upon a good one. MTV is to make all South Park episodes available online next year “as part of a strategy to reach consumers everywhere. Remember when MTV used to play music videos back in the day? Well, who [...]

Joe’s Goals is a simple tool that lets you track whatever you want. Using a calendar, you can “check” and “minus” things like exercise, work goals, or whatever you want each day. It has the simple and elegant feel of marking something off on a calendar each day, and also let’s you jot notes in [...]

Ah, the wonders of YouTube. Since I’ve been so busy of late and shamefully ignoring the OMC, I leave you with the comic delights of Gabe & Max’s Internet Thing. True low budget comedic wunderkinds, says I. Enjoy…