Online Media Cultist

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 [...]

I’ve been getting my tweet on of late, talking about my recent “discovery” and obsession with 30 Rock. This little gem of a clip had me stitches, simply because it’s bizarre and random and very “who would think of that?” In short, amazing. I give you Werewolf Bar Mitzvah, because it’s Friday. Enjoy.

When wacky web memes, online video, and The Force collides, it’s likely to be a good time. In this case it’s Star Wars retold by someone who has only seen bits and pieces of it, and it’s one good time. Enjoy. Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn’t seen it) from Joe Nicolosi on Vimeo. (via Vimeo)

As Internet memes of hilarity go, The Curious Case of Forrest Gump is actually pretty hilarious. (via Boing Boing)

Pretty interesting and provocative short post from the Swampland politics blog about how Israel is harnessing YouTube during the ongoing conflict in Gaza: The Israeli military has its own broadcast channel for the war in Gaza, via YouTube of course. Though Israel is not the first nation to use the Internet to distribute military propaganda, it [...]

If you’re a fan of great TV and science fiction, you owe it to yourself to check out The Prisoner, a 1960s psychedelic sci fi thriller from the BBC, starring Patrick McGoohan. Where can you check it out? Glad you asked, as AMC has made the entire series available online as a promotion for the miniseries [...]

Pretty amazing visualization of world air travel over a 24 hour period.

This is way too good not to share, and already a great object lesson on how strong and compelling content can sweep the Interwebs in mere hours. And check out star-studded this thing is, unbelievable! It’s a musical, you see, about an already infamous proposition labeled with the number eight… Enjoy. See more Jack Black videos at Funny [...]

Lordz bless the old local TV station WPIX in New York. Every once in a while, they would run an all night marathon of such shows as Monty Python’s Flying Circus or The Twilight Zone, and I absorbed as much pop cultural influence from those events as anything else that I can remember growing up. So [...]

I can’t help passing along the opening theme to an ’80s cheesetastic wonder… Small Wonder, matter of fact: (via Boing Boing) Some kids used to make fun of me back in the day, saying I looked like the little boy on the show. There, now I’ve revealed far too much. Update: And as weird aside, I stumbled across [...]