Online Media Cultist

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 [...]

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 [...]

Well, you know that when James Cameron spends a decade working on a new flick, he’s not going to go light on the marketing. The result, on the webby side at the least, is awfully intriguing. The Official Avatar Interactive Trailer is an Adobe AIR app that brings the trailer for the lavishly expensive and [...]

My brain perks up when I notice some of the Internet’s leading voices saying similar things. Exhibit A: Steve Rubel is talking about digital curation and the role that brands can help play to find “good stuff.” In AdAge, Rubel notes that while Facebook and Google are dominating our attention online today, there’s an enormous [...]