Online Media Cultist

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 [...]

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’ve been thinking about how to write this post for a while. It’s not that I’m trying to convey anything earth-shattering; it’s just that I’ve wanted to both convey that my attitude toward blogging has changed (evolved?) while also *showing* the change through what I’m doing with Online Media Cultist. The result has been a hiatus [...]

For many bloggers, RSS subscriber numbers are a fun and useful way to get an approximate read on how many “loyal customers” they have. For others, however, RSS numbers take on a greater significance, impacting such things as advertiser and investor relationships, as well as a web site’s perceived influence. For example, when you visit TechCrunch [...]

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 [...]

Every once in a while – not all that often, really – I come across a blog I’ve never seen before that blows me away. Something different, something real, refreshing. And addictive reading to boot! I found one, and it was thanks to Google Reader’s brilliant Friends’ shared items feature and, in particular, my man Jason [...]

Steven Hodson makes as strong an argument as its possible to make in defense of bloggers running ads to make money. You have to love the title too: Guess what – being an income making blogger isn’t cut & dry: It’s interesting when you start looking behind the emerald green cloth that covers these blogging wizards. [...]

(via MyDD) People who claim with any seriousness that blogging is “dead” or even stagnant are nuts, or just aren’t paying attention.

Here’s my new thinking: probably the best and most successful bloggers will also tend to be the best blogger/microblogger hybrids, and vice versa. Now let me explain. Over the summer I wrote several pieces about this emerging idea called Blogging 2.0. My sense at the time was that successful bloggers (more on how to define this below) [...]

There were so many stunning and compelling and fascinating stories that came out of the US elections of 2008 I won’t possibly try to wrap up that gargantuan story with a tidy bow. However, I did want to pass along some of the more web-related stories that caught my eye in the days after Barack [...]