Online Media Cultist

A Stay N’ Alive piece (is there a cooler blog name than that?) by Jesse Stay called My Hiatus From RSS – Is RSS Really Necessary? made me think about my own ongoing challenge/struggle/scramble to grapple with the massive number of news stories, blog posts, comments, tweets, and on and on that might potentially be [...]

As far back as 1992, when I was a freshman at Binghamton University (or SUNY Binghamton, if you like) in New York, I recall using the school’s “computer pod.” The pod had old school computer terminals where you could do a number of things education-related, but my favorite thing to do was to e-mail friends [...]

I spent the last three years managing the production of a number of social networking websites. During 2006-2007, I produced ZonaZoom, an ambitious (and now defunct) attempt to grab market share of social networking Latino teens in the United States. And I spent a grueling, rewarding year producing quarterlife.com in 2007 and early 2008, the [...]

It’s always fun to watch new creative experiments on the Internet play out. When it comes to novelists dabbling in the electronic realm, I fondly recall Stephen King’s The Plant, “a serial novel published in 2000 as an e-book.” King wanted to see if people would voluntarily pay $1.00 for each installment versus the option to [...]

I love Andrew Sullivan. Not only is he one of the sharpest political writers in the country, but he’ll also drop really cool things from around the webs from time to time. (As something of a generalist writer who writes about the online media cultery, I relate to this a great deal, but I’ll save [...]

When wacky web memes, online video, and The Force collides, it’s likely to be a good time. In this case it’s Star Wars retold by someone who has only seen bits and pieces of it, and it’s one good time. Enjoy. Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn’t seen it) from Joe Nicolosi on Vimeo. (via Vimeo)

The other day I was doing housework while listening to my iPod. An amazing, mind blowingly great song by Bob Dylan popped on. I don’t recall having heard it before, but I’ll never forget it. It’s called Hurricane, and it’s about eight and a half minutes long. I liked it so much that I listened [...]

New post up on louisgray.com, this one’s called Pluck On Demand Supplies Contextually Relevant Content Widgets. And as always here’s a peek: Most website publishers and bloggers are always looking for ways to add value for their readers. And smart online publishers look to add value while also marketing themselves to a larger potential audience. Enter Pluck [...]

New post up on louisgray.com, y’all, this one called Welcome To The Twittersphere. Here’s a look see: I like the idea of Twittersphere, but fear there’s not quite enough going on to keep people coming back in numbers. Personally, I’d go to a site more often that deals primarily with “RTs,” or “retweets,” those links that [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot about the economy (who isn’t?), company size, and efficient ways of doing things lately, and the following two pieces are great at blowing up conventional wisdom about those topics. In essence, what they’re getting at is that smaller can be more efficient, faster, better, and more profitable than bigger! Assumption #1: [...]