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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

via steverubel.com I’m really interested right now in the interaction between Google products (gmail, Google Reader), Posterous, and Twitter. And FriendFeed? Still trying to figure out where FF fits in these days.

When Kevin Spacey is teaching David Letterman how to use Twitter on television, you know that it’s pretty big. And when Letterman “doesn’t get it,” and Spacey jokingly chastises him for not getting it, and the crowd and audience are with Spacey, you know that it’s really big. Check it. (via CrunchGear)

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 [...]

Increasingly, social media web sites are becoming much more than places to keep in touch with friends, family and colleagues online. They’re becoming major hubs of information consumption, analysis and distribution as well, so it’s important to understand how this trend is playing out on some of the more popular destinations on the social web. In [...]