Online Media Cultist

For web workers, some social networks matter more than others. What I mean by that is while MySpace is still one of the most popular web sites on the planet (Alexa has it ranked No. 9 currently), it’s simply not that important — in relative terms — for connecting with colleagues, potential customers and contacts; [...]

I’ve joined Web Worker Daily as a contributing writer, a GigaOM Network site. Pretty cool stuff as I have the opportunity to continue to explore new products, ideas, and trends surrounding social media and the webs, in this case to help (hopefully!) empower, inform, and occasionally entertain web workers around the globe. Here’s a glimpse of [...]

People have been speculating on how Twitter is going to make money for what seems like forever. This slideshow from Fred Wilson, a venture capitalist with Union Square Ventures (which has invested in Twitter), features a screenshot that may signal how it’s actually going to happen. Slide 22 simply reads: Where We Are Going And from what [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

New post up on louisgray.com, wherein we look at whether or not Twitter deserves to be covered as much as it is these days. It’s called No, Tech Blogs Should Not Shut Up About Twitter. Here’s a look see: It’s an important part of the overall storyline We’re in an interesting period right now. I’m tempted to [...]

New post up over at louisgray.com: Walls, Blogs, and Power: Building Fortress Twitter. Here’s a clip: The race to build the perfect Twitter add-on service is in full bore. There are so many new services and applications being delivered these days that new sites are cropping up exist solely to aggregate and organize all the cool [...]

I don’t mean to pick on Salon.com. I really don’t. It’s been one of my favorite online magazines for just about this entire decade. But I just can’t help pointing out… oddities where I see them. My attention is not focused on the site content at all, which is consistently high quality (this Heather Havrilesky roundup [...]

I’ve been spending a lot of time over on Twitter these last several months, and it seems like a growing chunk of the social media-addicted earth populace is as well. The number of stories pouring out about Twitter each day seems to at least rival the buzz that the microblogging phenom received coming out of [...]