Online Media Cultist

I've long been a big fan of RSS, and Google Reader continues to dominate a good chunk of my web working day. But though RSS plays a larger role on the web than most people realize, it has not quite reached the potential that many saw for it and has certainly eluded household name status. [...]

My social media consumption workflow has changed quite a bit over the last year or so. I still really love Google Reader’s share feature and use that as a bedrock of how I absorb and share information, along with Twitter and even (for me) Facebook of late. I also like to use Google Readers “shared + [...]

Increasingly, social media web sites are becoming much more than places to keep in touch with friends, family and colleagues online. They’re becoming major hubs of information consumption, analysis and distribution as well, so it’s important to understand how this trend is playing out on some of the more popular destinations on the social web. In [...]

A Stay N’ Alive piece (is there a cooler blog name than that?) by Jesse Stay called My Hiatus From RSS – Is RSS Really Necessary? made me think about my own ongoing challenge/struggle/scramble to grapple with the massive number of news stories, blog posts, comments, tweets, and on and on that might potentially be [...]

I’d like to see FriendFeed partner with Google Reader on something that I believe the Inner Web Nerds in all of us freak out with joy and exultation. Not a Google purchase of FriendFeed (which was founded by ex-Googlers, by the way), just a straight up partnership that further integrates FriendFeed functionality into Google Reader. Here’s [...]

Steve Rubel of Micropersuasion fame and Robert Scoble are two of the most “bleeding edge” power users of Google Reader around. Rubel writes mini-treatises on extracting and managing data out of Google Reader that will make your head spin, while Scoble – among other things – has been a leading user of a feature called [...]

There was a time some months back when I believed that a combination of Techmeme and “smart people networks” like Twitter and FriendFeed were becoming so useful that it would lead to vastly reduced reliance on an RSS reader. I was wrong. I’m using Google Reader more than ever, and love its social features as much as [...]