Online Media Cultist

It was a little thing but a much debated thing nonetheless for quite a little spell. Twitter asked its teeming tweeting millions “What are you doing?” though for a great long time that questions was somewhat and then completely irrelevant. From breaking news coverage on the ground to summing up political courage of the oppressed [...]

Jason Calacanis is the CEO of Mahalo.com, “a human powered search engine,” as well as the former co-founder of Weblogs, Inc. and GM of Netscape. His latest mission (quest?) is to ensure that entrepreneurs are never forced to pay to pitch to angel investment firms. Jason was kind enough to provide his take via e-mail on [...]

You’re blasting monsters back to the depths of hell, or watching seasons 8-14 of South Park straight through, or doing some kind of special black ops mission behind the beaches of Normandy circa late spring ’44, let’s say. You know, a typical Saturday afternoon on the couch. Now, here comes the dilemma: you already have your [...]

Online advertising is “booming,” according to The New York Times… if they’re running before, after, or during a video, that is. Therefore, many bloggers and industry observers are going to be keeping a close eye on Google’s experimentation with “skippable” online video ads, or advertising that can be “clicked off” to skip the ad and [...]

These darned kids, what with their Twittering and Interwebs tubing and all. All of this social media tom foolery is enough to dilute creative powers and potency from the artistic genius. At least that’s what John Taylor, Duran Duran bassist (and ’80s hair master) would have us believe. “When artists today are asked to Twitter their [...]

Twitter is now big business. How do we know? Because services are springing up that are betting that big time companies are willing to pay big time bucks to harness, filter, and interpret the orgy of data, link-sharing, and communication that is taking place on the 140-character-based beast each day. Case in point is CoTweet’s new [...]

The blogosphere is already responding in earnest to the horrific shooting spree at a Texas military base that resulted in 12 deaths and 31 wounded: Twelve people have been killed and 31 wounded in a shooting spree at a Texas military post in a murderous rampage that officials believe was carried out by an Army psychiatrist. The [...]

While I enjoy checking out Twitter applications such as TweetDeck, in the end I enjoy kicking it old school with Twitter, using the “plain old” web to tweet and reply. (So does Robert Scoble, so I feel as though I’m in good company.) Therefore, Twitter features that help to enhance the web-based experience definitely catch [...]

Technorati is cooking up some pretty great interviews these days. Here’s a wide ranging and rather interesting interview with Weblogs, Inc. (owned by AOL these days) Director Brad Hill, conducted by my old mentor, Blogcritics co-owner, and friend Eric Olsen. Check it: Here’s the link to the interview on Technorati, which is part of the continuing [...]

As is often the case, when I’m not posting a lot here I’m off bustling and hustling on other webby things. Of course, there are periods of severe laziness as well, but who’s not guilty of that once in a while? The last few months have seen a lot of exciting developments, not least of which [...]