Online Media Cultist

Duncan Riley asks an interesting question on The Inquisitr: what ever happened to blogrolls? If you’ve been in or around the blogging game for awhile, you’ll understand what this question means. Blogrolls – a hand selected list of websites prominently displayed on a blog under some sort of “Blog Roll” or “Sites I Visit, You [...]

Just a few weeks ago I wrote about Summize, the hot Twitter search service of the moment, noting that “not only does it do a nice, clean job of providing search results, but it offers RSS feeds based on any search query.” Obviously Twitter thinks highly of Summize as well, as speculation is percolating all [...]

In webby world, Twitter is “old” and FriendFeed is (shiny and) “new.” The ongoing storyline of whether or not people are abandoning Twitter for FriendFeed continues into the post-July 4th holiday with a slew of posts about how a small group of people quickly assembled a large following on FriendFeed (answer: a locked small group [...]

Ah, the visual trickery that can be done these days…

For some reason, I was struck by this story about mobile phones getting banned in schools in Cyprus. On first glance, it makes something close to sense. Text messaging during class, transmitting answers during tests, surfing the interwebs instead of dissecting frogs, and so on all seem like things to be prevented while the arts [...]

Amidst a story on Ars Technica about people who leave their browsers vulnerable by not running security updates (and I’m sometimes lazy about doing this type of thing, I must admit) I was struck by a graphic that displayed current browser market share: * Internet Explorer – 78.3% * Firefox – 16.1% * Safari – [...]

It’s very interesting and even strange stuff. The distinction between content and advertising is becoming less relevant all the time – it’s all about distribution, scale, and the ability to get in front of and (the next Great Realm) target specific kinds of consumers. The deal between Google and Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane to [...]

Princeton University is the latest Ivy League school to begin offering textbooks on the Amazon Kindle. This is a killer idea and use of the Kindle on so many fronts: * Less weight for college students to lug around * Students can buy books from just about anywhere, without having to wait on line. And [...]

Joss Whedon and Neil Patrick Harris, together on the interwebs. It just might not get better than this. I’m not really sure what Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog is (it’s some kind of mini- or side-project cooked up by Whedon in the midst of the writer’s strike), but I am sure that we need it. If [...]

Earlier this week, I wrote about the differences between what Hulu and YouTube are doing (stemming from Mark Cuban’s assertion that Hulu is kicking YouTube’s ass). Liz Gannes of NewTeeVee reports on YouTube CEO Chad Hurley’s comments at a tech startup dinner in Palo Alto, which reveals where the video giant may be headed. “Brand [...]