Online Media Cultist

A bunch of webby stories caught my eye this morning, in no particular order by rhymes nor reasons:
* World’s oldest blogger signs off singing aged 108 - “An Australian woman renowned as the world’s oldest blogger has died at the age of 108, with her last posting talking about her ailing health but also […]

I recall checking out Pandora a few years ago. I liked it, but there were so many social music applications coming out at the time that it didn’t really stick with me.
Well, I probably should have stuck with it because its current incarnation is stunning. There are several reasons why.
It’s easy. This is […]

Using FriendFeed and Google Reader in tandem is great. On FriendFeed, I get access to a huge range of stories that people are sharing, and the one-click ability to “like” the stories I like is an easy and addictive way to add my two-cents to the stories I, well… like. And of course if I […]

Hopped up on coffee and in the midst doing my daily frantic scan of social media sites, blogs, websites, and e-mail, a strange question arose in my mind:
Will today’s kids think about blogging in the same way that my generation does?
It’s an odd question on a few levels. I’m in my mid-30s (how […]

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 Should […]

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 over […]

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 […]

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 – 3.4%
* Opera – […]