Online Media Cultist

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 [...]

Facebook Connect: on route to becoming the one ring to rule them all? Inside Facebook reports that "MySpace is planning to make [Facebook Connect] a key part of the site, rolling out a number of Connect features in the first part of 2010." Earlier this week, Yahoo's "Project Rushmore" was revealed, described as a "massive integration [...]

Can bloggers publish opinions on the Internet without contacting companies that they’re writing about first?

Before I get into what will likely be a somewhat negative diatribe about ”Boxed In,” by Grady Hendrix, I’d like to start out by saying how much I love online magazine Slate. I’ve read it daily for years and greatly enjoy its intelligent and savvy coverage of politics, pop culture, technology, and television (its TV [...]

Several years ago, I thought that the future of online content would be led by Netscape (which later “spun” off to become Propeller), which innovated by using a mixture of user submitted content and curated content with an element of community-controlled voting or ranking. As we get close to 2010, things are basically playing out [...]

We hear a lot these days about the distributed web, the interconnected web, the social web, this kind of thing. It really hits home though in the real time real world when a mammoth web entity like Yahoo throws in with reigning king of the social webs Facebook on something referred to as nothing less [...]

I can't mark the exact moment when I made Hulu one of the regular stops during my web-drenched day, but I do know that it was sometime around two years ago. While I'll certainly stop by YouTube to check out the latest UGC meme or dig up some video of brilliant obscurity, Hulu is more [...]

With the news today that MSNBC.com is now offering embeddable video players as part of its product offering, ABCNews.com clearly falls behind the pack as the only major U.S. television news organization to not offer embeddable video online. Let’s recap. CBS News: Yep. Watch CBS News Videos Online MSNBC: Yep. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about [...]

A few weeks ago, I finally decided to do something about the fact that tagging on Online Media Cultist had been broken for some time. And that led to a general tinkering and design reboot session that has resulted in a fairly significant change to the way the homepage looks and how the site is [...]

Before we blog focus, I strongly recommend that you read David Carr’s New York Times piece called The Fall and Rise of Media. It’s a pretty extraordinary recent history of traditional media vs. “new media,” New York City, and the massive and convulsive changes that continue to rock the media and tech industries, and our [...]