Online Media Cultist

Mashable and news tracker site Megite have partnered to launch Mashtracker, a “memetracker” that focuses on blog conversations stemming from stories published by Mashable. This is an interesting development on a few fronts. Gabe Rivera’s suite of memetracker sites – anchored by politics-centric Memeorandum and tech-centric Techmeme – does an excellent job of selecting hot [...]

Everyone knows Tom, right? He’s your friend, he’s everyone’s friend. He’s the first guy you see smiling back at you from an odd-trendy camera angle when you and 80 million other people sign up for a MySpace profile. Now, like the beginning of a rich and wonderfully Byzantine novel, let me layer in the next [...]

Okay, it happened this weekend: I’ve totally been drawn into the Twitter vortex. I should have a piece up in the morning about my various findings, but for now check out Twitter Vision, which I think is one of the coolest mashups I’ve seen in a long time. It basically allows you to see Twitter [...]

After a brief and fleeting spell of ambivalence, I was sucked straight into the depths of the Twitter vortex, the finger-snapping, trigger-happy, easy-to-use “mini-blogging” application that lets you send short messages to your group of “followers” via web, IM, or SMS. At its essence – I’ve spent some time thinking about this – I think [...]

In 2006, I think one of the most interesting developments in the online world was the convergence of blogger culture with social networking culture. Sites like Vox proved that social networks could successfully cater to grownups and bloggy-types, while blogs and social news platforms made efforts to beef up user profiles and social networking features [...]

Last post I talked about how the blogosphere and social networks have been colliding and that 2007 will be a year when the gaming world and MMOs will incorporate social networking in a big way. Another huge convergence that’s been happening all the while is that of the television and the Internet, to the point [...]

How cool is it that right now I can look at Dumpster Bust’s MyBlogLog widget and see Mathew Ingram and Tony Hung – two esteemed members of my top ten favorite online media bloggers club – smiling back at me? MyBlogLog is an outstanding and blessedly simple social networking tool to network with other bloggers, [...]

Making lots of money – particularly $50 million – is a difficult thing to do with an advertising-supported online business, The New York Times tells us today. Apparently, you need to get lots and lots of people to come visit your site all the time. This is (very) old news for anyone who has made [...]

No one can agree on what “web 2.0″ means, or if it even exists (and to be fair, most folk have never even heard the term). But if you want a quick and breezy and fun visual overview on how we got to the now of now, this video is for you. Picked this up [...]

Lifecycles and trendcycles keep getting faster and faster. Just as I was getting up to speed and offering some limited pontifications about the mini-phenomenon known as Twitter, its demise is already being predicted. Twitter is a simple to use and potentially addictive service that allows you to post very short messages to groups of friends [...]