Online Media Cultist

I’m breaking my blogging mini-vacation to bring you an update on Super Bowl news and video on the web. That’s right, you can find stuff about the Super Bowl on the Internet these days. But seriously… I thought I’d give a little sprinkling of some of the more interesting things I’ve seen going on around [...]

I've long been a big fan of RSS, and Google Reader continues to dominate a good chunk of my web working day. But though RSS plays a larger role on the web than most people realize, it has not quite reached the potential that many saw for it and has certainly eluded household name status. [...]

Twitter is a central gathering point to talk about live events, both real world and virtual. So when popular web hosting company Rackspace experienced a major outage today, causing all kinds of online mayhem – websites from the well known TechCrunch were offline to the relatively obscure Online Media Cultist (my blog, that’s how [...]

There are plenty of blogs that focus on the “make money blogging” space. Some are better than others, and generally a good way to detect quality is to look for those that preach that it's hard work to make money blogging, that it usually takes a long time, and the foundation almost always comes from [...]

As 2009 wraps up, Twitter is expressing its most serious and visible signs to date of how it plans to convert its massive popularity into a profitable enterprise. The latest is leaked screenshots of a new "contributors" feature, which aims to give businesses that utilize Twitter for online marketing, PR, and customer service purposes more [...]

Remember The Truth Laid Bear? It’s okay if you don’t. I’ve mentioned the blog directory/search engine to a few dialed in friends recently and received blank stares. At one time it was a pretty big deal though, at least within the bourgeoning blogospheric community during the middle of this decade. The search and ranking system were always [...]

Amazon's new Disc+ On Demand product allows you to "purchase select DVD and Blu-ray titles from Amazon.com… and receive an Amazon Video On Demand standard definition version as a gift with purchase." At present, only a small portion of Amazon's DVD titles (300 of 330,000) are available, but we can expect this number to increase [...]

My social media consumption workflow has changed quite a bit over the last year or so. I still really love Google Reader’s share feature and use that as a bedrock of how I absorb and share information, along with Twitter and even (for me) Facebook of late. I also like to use Google Readers “shared + [...]

In 2005 and 2006, MySpace was the king of the hill. “Web 2.0″ was in its ascendancy, and everyone couldn’t stop talking about MySpace. Kids loved it and were telling their parents and friends, single people flirted and told their single friends, bands loved it and marketed their asses off, while the mainstream media pumped [...]

At the beginning of the year, Twitter was already a big deal in the geek community and was already well on its way to becoming a leading social media service. How do we know how it's doing at the close of 2009? Check this: Dell Inc. claims to have earned $6.5 million via the power of [...]