Online Media Cultist

I’m breaking my blogging mini-vacation to bring you an update on Super Bowl news and video on the web. That’s right, you can find stuff about the Super Bowl on the Internet these days. But seriously… I thought I’d give a little sprinkling of some of the more interesting things I’ve seen going on around [...]

Twitter is a central gathering point to talk about live events, both real world and virtual. So when popular web hosting company Rackspace experienced a major outage today, causing all kinds of online mayhem – websites from the well known TechCrunch were offline to the relatively obscure Online Media Cultist (my blog, that’s how [...]

As 2009 wraps up, Twitter is expressing its most serious and visible signs to date of how it plans to convert its massive popularity into a profitable enterprise. The latest is leaked screenshots of a new "contributors" feature, which aims to give businesses that utilize Twitter for online marketing, PR, and customer service purposes more [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

It was a little thing but a much debated thing nonetheless for quite a little spell. Twitter asked its teeming tweeting millions “What are you doing?” though for a great long time that questions was somewhat and then completely irrelevant. From breaking news coverage on the ground to summing up political courage of the oppressed [...]

You’re blasting monsters back to the depths of hell, or watching seasons 8-14 of South Park straight through, or doing some kind of special black ops mission behind the beaches of Normandy circa late spring ’44, let’s say. You know, a typical Saturday afternoon on the couch. Now, here comes the dilemma: you already have your [...]

These darned kids, what with their Twittering and Interwebs tubing and all. All of this social media tom foolery is enough to dilute creative powers and potency from the artistic genius. At least that’s what John Taylor, Duran Duran bassist (and ’80s hair master) would have us believe. “When artists today are asked to Twitter their [...]

Twitter is now big business. How do we know? Because services are springing up that are betting that big time companies are willing to pay big time bucks to harness, filter, and interpret the orgy of data, link-sharing, and communication that is taking place on the 140-character-based beast each day. Case in point is CoTweet’s new [...]