Online Media Cultist

After a several month lapse, I’ve been sucked back into the Twitter vortex. When set up in the right way – which will differ for everyone – Twitter is a great way to get a constant stream of news, links, tid bits of randomness, and nastily entertaining little squabbles across the strange interwebs. I’ve found [...]

ProBlogger guru Darren Rowse gets a jumpstart on the April Fools Day tomfoolery by announcing the launch of PayPerTweet: “Already we have secured the cooperation of 50 prominent Twitter users with a combined followership of 250,000. This group is willing to tweet about you, your site or your product for cash.” Darren blogs from Australia, where [...]

I was a little bit harsh about 50 Cent’s foray into the social networking space yesterday, but thankfully that’s not to say that every intersection of the hip hop world and the web will be unsuccessful. This YouTube clip called Design Coding by The Poetic Prophet (AKA The SEO Rapper) is a perfect example. It’s hilarious [...]

There was a meme over the weekend (kicked off by Mark Evans and the provocative Dave Winer) posing that many bloggers blog and blog but have nothing to say, or something to that effect. I don’t necessarily agree, and would further go on to say that there’s a vast and massive galaxy of blogs out [...]

So rap star 50 Cent has launched a social networking site called ThisIs50.com. Would you like to guess how much I think it’s worth? I’m only partially joking, but I’ll begin with what I think is interesting here. Reuters notes that celebrities are launching their own social networks in increasing numbers, including Kylie Minogue, Ludacris, [...]

My prowlings around the interwebs today provoked some thoughts about three unique and up-and-coming players on the interwebs landscape. Ustream.TV Ustream.TV is a “live interactive video broadcast platform.” It combines live video streaming with live chat and throws some basic social networking features into the mix. What that means is that you can run a live show [...]

I really wanted to check out the new Photoshop Express, which was announced today. An online application that will allow me to quickly and easily manipulate images and reuse them on the web would be perfect, and everyone knows that Photoshop is in the hallowed hall of web design tools. And lords know that Online [...]

A Slate article talks up “Hulu Hoopla” (is there really hoopla, I’d counter?) and then poses the question: is a new site the future of television? My answer is probably not. Sure, it’s a place you can go to watch some shows from the TV world, with pre-roll and mid-roll ads thrown in. And Hulu adds some [...]

I know, I know, it’s a crazy question. But writing my last piece about how countries around the world are dealing with the spread of the Internet got me to thinking about democracy, and how it’s often referred to as an experiment a few hundred years in the making. It’s mind boggling to think about how [...]

It’s always fascinating to take a look at what’s going on beyond your own country’s borders. Here in the U.S. we have a tendency to not do that enough, I think. No doubt the Internet is having a profound impact on countries around the world, and it’s interesting to look at how non-Western governments are reacting [...]