http://onlinemediacultist.com Web producer. Writer. Online Media Cultist. Fri, 09 May 2008 15:26:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Twitter is hugely popular, growing quickly, and has attracted lots of funding and worldwide buzz and all the other things a wildfire-on-the-way-to-greatness web start-up could ever hope for. But how's it ever going to make money? That's something that people have been discussing for a long time now. Aidan Henry, ... http://onlinemediacultist.com/2008/05/09/how-will-twitter-ever-make-money/ This video exploring new features on Google Earth 4.3 is pretty cool, and gets cooler the deeper in you go. The 3D buildings layer is amazing. Baltimore was used as the example, and it had me wishing for more episodes of The Wire! http://onlinemediacultist.com/2008/05/09/google-earth-comes-to-life-like/ It's Friday, and some Fridays are more Friday than others, you know? In any event, definitely time for some videos. I've been talking about Grand Theft Auto IV a lot this week both here and over on Twitter. This video posits what GTA IV would look like on the old ... http://onlinemediacultist.com/2008/05/09/grand-theft-auto-iv-goes-very-very-old-school/ We're living in an era where scholars – self-appointed and otherwise – are attempting to generate buzz and sell books via bizarre, "controversial," and flat-out silly ideas about the Internet and technology. The latest example comes in the form of Professor Jonathan Zittrain of Oxford University. Zittrain believes that the ... http://onlinemediacultist.com/2008/05/08/gadgets-threaten-the-internets-future-ridiculous/ As online video producers experiment, fumble, and tinker their way toward a model for making money on scripted online video content, an old school premise emerges on the new media scene: product placement. It makes sense. Because online video needs to be able to be seen where there's audience (see: ... http://onlinemediacultist.com/2008/05/07/the-online-video-monetization-equation-or-how-do-you-make-money-on-this-stuff/ Scott Karp of Publishing 2.0, one of the crazy-smartest people writing about the interwebs and what-it-all-means today, continues his exploration of the over coverage of breaking news stories with a piece called The Declining Value Of Redundant News Content On The Web. In this case, Karp uses the Microsoft-Yahoo non-merger ... http://onlinemediacultist.com/2008/05/06/using-smart-content-aggregation-and-smart-people-networks-to-beat-back-the-over-coverage-plague/ Mark Cuban wrote a piece last night about "the failings of Internet video and the expectation of free content," which references a Bernstein Research report called And Now for the News...The Emperor Has No Clothes." Cuban's premise is that "the a la carting of video on the net" will force ... http://onlinemediacultist.com/2008/05/05/creative-destruction-and-the-online-video-gold-rush/ When it comes to hardcore gaming – online role playing games, World of Warcraft, intense first-person shooters, adventuring off into Nintendo Wii land with magic wands made "real" – I'm what they call a n00b. A newbie. I appreciate all of these activities intellectually, understand that they're huge huge business ... http://onlinemediacultist.com/2008/05/04/whats-in-a-game-or-how-grand-theft-auto-iv-reminded-me-yet-again-that-everythings-changing-quick-like/ Before this week, if someone had brought up the Grand Theft Auto franchise to me, I would have shrugged my shoulders and perhaps offered a vague recollection that some values groups were in a panic years ago when the San Andreas version came out. That's all changed now. Grand Theft ... http://onlinemediacultist.com/2008/05/02/grand-theft-auto-4-is-stunning/ It's Friday, time for some fun. This video is somewhat derivative of the truly hilarious Internet party, but it's still pretty good stuff. Imagine if Facebook were real life, and its human agent was a smug British man who randomly shows up at your door. Enjoy… Found via Laughing Squid. ... http://onlinemediacultist.com/2008/05/02/facebook-comes-a-knocking-at-your-door/