Online Media Cultist

There were so many stunning and compelling and fascinating stories that came out of the US elections of 2008 I won’t possibly try to wrap up that gargantuan story with a tidy bow. However, I did want to pass along some of the more web-related stories that caught my eye in the days after Barack [...]

I’ve been throwing the term “post-web 2.0″ around lately mostly as a means of discussing what’s going on right now and what will come next. We know what’s happening now (in part): the economy is shaky, funded start-ups are scrambling to get cash flow positive, and the overall attitude in the Internet industry is less [...]

I’ve had a resurgence of interest (obsession? yes… that’s not so far off!) in Twitter over the last few weeks, reminding me of my early excitement about the not-so-little social media phenom that could early last year.
The historic election that we all witnessed yesterday provided a unique “live event” that was perfect for Twitter [...]

Steve Rubel of Micropersuasion fame and Robert Scoble are two of the most “bleeding edge” power users of Google Reader around. Rubel writes mini-treatises on extracting and managing data out of Google Reader that will make your head spin, while Scoble – among other things – has been a leading user of a feature called [...]

From Mr. Cashmore over at Mashable:
Streamy’s new mantra: cutting through the online noise with personalized recommendations, groups and custom filters. It’s a single view for all your blog subscriptions, Twitter feed, FriendFeed and other inputs, with the ability to post updates back to services like Twitter, Digg, Delicious and Facebook without leaving the site.
Streamy Demo [...]

Great piece called Micro-Apps over on Aiden Henry’s Mapping the Web. I responded over there with the following thoughts:
I very much agree, Aidan. Before reading your article, was thinking how bloated and unintuitive a lot of recent social media platforms seem to be. If I can’t figure out “why I’m here” very very quickly, [...]

Yes, the economic news is a little bit wacky right about now. We all know about it, and I’m not going to focus on that here. What I am trying to stay focused on is all the good things going on. In fact I was amazed at the number of funding stories I found just [...]

Unfortunately we’ve entered a phase of dead pools and layoffs. We all know that things are going to be in the range of not-that-great to something less than that for the next while. I’ve been trying to stay positive over the last few weeks, absorbing as much as I can about how the proverbial fundamentals [...]

This is such a great song from the ’80s and still sounds remarkably fresh, doesn’t it? And pretty great video too.
As a random aside, when I hear this song it always reminds me of descending down an amazingly long escalator, down into the bowels of London to catch the tube. At the bottom of [...]