Online Media Cultist

As I succinctly noted on Twitter, my morning roughly started as follows: I woke up, fired up coffee, eggs, ham, and toast (which constitutes a fancy breakfast in my house). Checked e-mail and hit the front page of The New York Times online, which is oddly making its way back around to being one of my [...]

Browsing around the interwebs today, I stopped by Salon.com, as I often do. I was struck and amused to see this banner ad for CNN – the first thought that crossed my mind was: Is this an ad for CNN, or a promo for the new season of Lost? Is it that far feteched? Here’s a trailer for [...]

Speaking of no brainers, CNN.com is getting on board with other major online news outlets in providing embed code for video clips. There’s almost no use in not providing this standard feature. Attention video producers: If someone takes the time to grab your video and put it up on their blog, they are in effect promoting your [...]