Online Media Cultist

RSS, or really simple syndication, has been on my mind a lot lately. While it’s been around for years and is increasingly made available on many major (and minor) web publications, it still hasn’t really cracked the “mainstream consciousness” in a way that technology products/services like, say, the iPhone have. In other words, while RSS is [...]

It’s become something of a happy tradition to do a little self-referential shout out and huge thank you note to all of y’all when Online Media Cultist achieves a new RSS subscription milestone. This is the third occasion, at the 300 mark, which certainly gives me a great excuse to thank everyone who has taken [...]

Just got the alert via Marc Hustvedt, co-founder of Tubefilter, on Twitter linking to a Search Engine Journal story reporting that Jerry Yang sent an e-mail out to shareholders that Yahoo is willing to sell to Microsoft at the price of $33 per share. Question #1: After all these months of flirtation and Yahoo condemnation in [...]

Ever since I switched over from Bloglines to Google Reader several months ago, I’ve been making more and more use of RSS as a part of my daily online information intake. I did muse a little while back that Techmeme and Twitter/FriendFeed were eating into RSS’ usefulness for me, but I’m changing my mind on that [...]

Musicians and bands and music companies have been experimenting with how to distribute new work for several years now. Everyone knows that the old model is crumbling, and the scramble is on to find new ways to make money from the music game. The interesting thing about it to me, taking a step back, is to [...]

A bunch of webby stories caught my eye this morning, in no particular order by rhymes nor reasons: * World’s oldest blogger signs off singing aged 108 – “An Australian woman renowned as the world’s oldest blogger has died at the age of 108, with her last posting talking about her ailing health but also how [...]

I recall checking out Pandora a few years ago. I liked it, but there were so many social music applications coming out at the time that it didn’t really stick with me. Well, I probably should have stuck with it because its current incarnation is stunning. There are several reasons why. It’s easy. This is huge because [...]

Using FriendFeed and Google Reader in tandem is great. On FriendFeed, I get access to a huge range of stories that people are sharing, and the one-click ability to “like” the stories I like is an easy and addictive way to add my two-cents to the stories I, well… like. And of course if I [...]

Hopped up on coffee and in the midst doing my daily frantic scan of social media sites, blogs, websites, and e-mail, a strange question arose in my mind: Will today’s kids think about blogging in the same way that my generation does? It’s an odd question on a few levels. I’m in my mid-30s (how did I [...]

Duncan Riley asks an interesting question on The Inquisitr: what ever happened to blogrolls? If you’ve been in or around the blogging game for awhile, you’ll understand what this question means. Blogrolls – a hand selected list of websites prominently displayed on a blog under some sort of “Blog Roll” or “Sites I Visit, You Should [...]