Online Media Cultist

For a while — and we’re still in that while I suppose — it became trendy for longtime bloggers to muse about and in some cases pull the trigger on “retiring” from blogging and moving online publishing activities “exclusively” to microblogging platforms like Twitter. Today, Steve Rubel’s (long one of my favorite bloggers) decision (So Long [...]

This ReadWriteWeb article dates back to late April, but it’s worth linking to and talking about for anyone who may have missed it. Last month, you may remember having heard about a special iPhone ad from Dockers. Its claim to fame was that it was the world’s first “shakable” ad. Called “Shakedown to Get Down,” the [...]

Every time I read stories — and there are many of late streaming out of places like China and Iran — about governments cracking down on Internet use, censoring websites, blocking people from Internet access, and so on, I think something to the effect of: Yeah, but there’s got to be lots of people that [...]

I strongly believe in the notion of the microstartup, as defined in a Jason Calacanis essay back in November 2008 called The Future of Startups. Here’s the short definition: The zero cost startup has led to the age of the “microstartup.” It’s no longer two folks in a garage hoping to build a prototype in order [...]

As I succinctly noted on Twitter, my morning roughly started as follows: I woke up, fired up coffee, eggs, ham, and toast (which constitutes a fancy breakfast in my house). Checked e-mail and hit the front page of The New York Times online, which is oddly making its way back around to being one of my [...]

From The New York Times: China has accomplished remarkable things in the past 20 years, including building one of the world’s largest economies. Computers helped speed that development — and will be even more important in the future. So Beijing’s decision to require that all new personal computers sold in China contain software that bars access [...]

I keep seeing a Scientology banner ad being served to OMC via Google Adsense. That shows how far contextual advertising still has to go, I guess!

I had the pleasure of meeting Steve Spalding (How To Split An Atom, Crossing Gaps) at SXSW this year, and could tell right away that this here is a gentleman to keep an eye on in the webby and entrepreneurial sense. The simplest way to describe Steve is that he “gets it.” He gets the modern [...]

Darren Rowse probably doesn’t remember this, but he and I had a lengthy IM chat circa 2005 or so. I lived outside of San Francisco at the time, and Darren lives across the date line in Australia. He was (and is) friendly, engaging, informative, and passionate about the craft, science, and business of professional blogging. So [...]

I’m an obnoxiously loud advocate for HBO’s The Wire. I binged out on a bunch of episodes recently, and was blown away all over again about how gritty, rich, dark, hilarious, complex, scathing, and real it is all at the same time. I mention because I discovered a delightful treasure trove of detailed reviews and analysis [...]