Online Media Cultist

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 + [...]

In 2005 and 2006, MySpace was the king of the hill. “Web 2.0″ was in its ascendancy, and everyone couldn’t stop talking about MySpace. Kids loved it and were telling their parents and friends, single people flirted and told their single friends, bands loved it and marketed their asses off, while the mainstream media pumped [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 highly anticipated [...]

In a recent Blog Focus column, I focused on the buzz surrounding Xbox Live’s addition of social media applications such as Facebook and Twitter. Quoting myself, I wrote that “this is a significant development that further brings the big time gaming, broadcast media, and social media worlds together… and you don’t even need to leave [...]

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 [...]

Short but interesting post by Jason Kaneshiro of Webomatica on his self-imposed “social media blackout”: At this point, Twitter is my only social networking website, getting sporadic use. Much to my surprise, I’ve enjoyed this self-imposed exile quite a bit. [...] Overall, spending less time on speculation, discussion, and criticism, and more time doing and creating things. [...]

Broadcasting Brain picks up a rather interesting post from Jay Cruz that challenges me to consider Twitter and social media in a light that I haven’t quite done before called Why I’m Quitting Social Media: I realized that at best social media is entertainment disguised as “useful” information or crowdsourced “knowledge”, and at worst is distraction [...]

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 [...]