Online Media Cultist

The other day I wrote about how the massive growth of content begets the need for smarter and more efficient content aggregation. Because so much interaction, communication, and commerce now takes place online, it has become more critical for companies to deploy new legions of social media professionals to promote, educate, engage, and mitigate problems [...]

I’m guilty of this sometimes. A late afternoon when I’ve had too much coffee and the buffering brain is buzzing from blazing doses of online cultery. I think: what’s left for this whole web thing, web 2.0 or what have you? What’s left to be done that hasn’t yet to be done? The answer of [...]

All online communities — even the ones with the coolest features, the best ways to share information and media — are made up of people. And people (how many, overall “quality,” what they’re into, and so on) make or break communities. And communities aren’t static; they evolve. That’s what makes watching and thinking about them [...]

High powered PR behind a major new web product launch is critical to getting the word out these days. There’s so much competition for attention, so much flat out going on with the interwebs at any given time that a coordinated series of press hits is one of the few ways to get on the [...]

Duncan Riley makes interesting points over at The Inquisitr, pointing out that blogging 2.0 is “the blogosphere’s first counterculture movement.” To back up a few steps though, the definition of blogging 2.0 is still evolving, and like the strange and nebulous term web 2.0 can and likely will mean different things to different people. When [...]

Thanks go to Paul Moore at Spout for alerting me to the fact that Joss Whedon dropped word at Comic-Con that there will be more episodes of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog to come. Check out more thoughts on Dr. Horrible here and dig the trailer below: Teaser from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog on Vimeo.

As a cultist of the circus that never ends called politics, I was intrigued to read a story this morning called McCain May Act Soon on VP Pick in the Washington Post (I’m a sucker for this kind of stuff, but that’s another topic for another time). When I arrived at the story, my eyes [...]

Though there’s no hard numbers available, the speculation is that Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog did pretty well for itself by web standards. No idea of course if that’s true or if Joss Whedon’s tragicomedy about a wannabe super villain and his quest for love even came close to covering production costs, but the model is [...]

The other day I mentioned to a friend that FriendFeed is “red hot” right now. I then paused a moment, and dialed back to say that it’s really popular with the early adopter set and has the potential to blow up huge. That led me to think about who is winning and losing, relatively speaking, [...]

It’s difficult not to worry during bad economic times. I’m a worried-optimist of sorts, as paradoxical as it sounds, as I tend to be nervous/pragmatic about the short term but generally highly (and perhaps even) wildly optimist about the long term. Because of the latter bit, I tend to glom onto stories like this column [...]