Online Media Cultist

There are plenty of blogs that focus on the “make money blogging” space. Some are better than others, and generally a good way to detect quality is to look for those that preach that it's hard work to make money blogging, that it usually takes a long time, and the foundation almost always comes from [...]

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 [...]

Online advertising is “booming,” according to The New York Times… if they’re running before, after, or during a video, that is. Therefore, many bloggers and industry observers are going to be keeping a close eye on Google’s experimentation with “skippable” online video ads, or advertising that can be “clicked off” to skip the ad and [...]

This ReadWriteWeb article dates back to late April, but it’s worth linking to and talking about for anyone who may have missed it. Last month, you may remember having heard about a special iPhone ad from Dockers. Its claim to fame was that it was the world’s first “shakable” ad. Called “Shakedown to Get Down,” the [...]

I keep seeing a Scientology banner ad being served to OMC via Google Adsense. That shows how far contextual advertising still has to go, I guess!

As respected online publications such as Salon.com, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal removed all or most of their paid subscription models over the course of the decade, conventional wisdom formed that holding print content intended for a mainstream audience behind a pay wall was a noble but failed experiment. But are paid [...]

Steven Hodson makes as strong an argument as its possible to make in defense of bloggers running ads to make money. You have to love the title too: Guess what – being an income making blogger isn’t cut & dry: It’s interesting when you start looking behind the emerald green cloth that covers these blogging wizards. [...]

I’ve published my first column over at louisgray.com, called Social Media Advertising: Crossing the Streams, thanks much to Louis for the opportunity! Here’s a quick excerpt: I think allowing users to vote on ads that they like and have them “bubble up” to the top, social news-style, might be a rather clever addition to the Digg platform. [...]

I’ve been spending a lot of time over on Twitter these last several months, and it seems like a growing chunk of the social media-addicted earth populace is as well. The number of stories pouring out about Twitter each day seems to at least rival the buzz that the microblogging phenom received coming out of [...]

The short (URL) answer is yes… sort of. I’ve been spending a lot of time on Twitter lately. In order to share links efficiently on Twitter, you need to use link (or URL) shortening tools, which quickly take URLs that typically have a large number of characters and translate them to a shorter form that can [...]