Online Media Cultist

“Lifestreaming” is getting parodied, which means it’s verging on wide adoption. In this case, Facebook status updates get a pretty fair raking, to hilarious effect. As anyone who reads OMC knows, I’m a big fan of Twitter and Friendfeed, where the “early adopter,” geek, and “hyper connected” sets have set up shop. Taking a glimpse into [...]

Mathew Ingram, riffing on a Fred Wilson post, talks about the notion of bloggers getting “paid” via comments. In essence, comments are held up as part of the value to a blog/website and to the web publishers that run them. Ingram notes that “It would be nice to think that the sheer joy of crafting an [...]

There’s been a lot of discussion of late whether Twitter’s frequent outages over the last few months will cause people to abandon the popular micro-blogging service, and whether newcomer Friendfeed is positioned to swallow up its audience. I don’t think either will happen, at least not in the short term. Twitter is obviously scrambling to get [...]

After seven years of being tucked away amongst the immense online kingdom that is Amazon.com, Borders has launched its own online storefront that, it hopes, evokes “the feeling of browsing at a neighborhood bookstore, down to the popular shelves of staff picks that are familiar to its customers nationwide.” The new website in my view is [...]

I finally made a big switch (for me) last week, choosing Google Reader as my primary RSS reader. I’ve used Bloglines for several years now and have always liked it. It’s a pretty straightforward service for plugging in RSS feeds and letting the stories come to you. However, I’ve been increasingly tempted to switch over to [...]

It’s Friday, (almost) time to party, definitely time for a video. Here we have Internet Party 2, from the makers of Internet Party 1. The set-up is that each character acts on behalf of a popular website, for instance the MySpace guy is getting an intervention in this case, led out by Google girl, Facebook [...]

A New York Times “Bits” column has a great take on the new Netflix set-top box: “In the small, plastic box that is the new Netflix Player made by Roku, I think you can see the future of video.” Later in the piece, author Saul Hansell concludes: The future of video is Internet streaming to the [...]

I’ve noticed that much of the discussion of this new notion of Blogging 2.0 revolves around what users want. In fact, as I noted earlier this week, Duncan Riley declared that Blogging 2.0 is “all about the user.” Fair enough. That said, my sense is that there’s a galaxy of well intentioned and ambitious bloggers out [...]

I’m a sucker for good news about the future of the Internet. That bias noted, I think that it’s pretty clear that there’s every reason to be optimistic about the vibrancy of the online economy. It all starts with advertising. Content may be king, but a growing online advertising industry means that strong content will be [...]

Ah, there’s another “2.0″ to throw into the mix, everyone! Blogging 2.0 is now a part of our lexicon, thanks (I believe) to Duncan Riley, late of TechCrunch and now of a new operation called The Inquisitr. Louis Gray breaks it down as follows: Blogging 1.0 centered around who could: * Amass the most page views * Display the [...]