Feature: Online Media Cultist
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Twitter as Communications Platform— Short, simple, and fast. That's the killer app.
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Politics and MySpace: "the leading social networking blogosphere"?— It's hilarious when non-tech-savvy journalists wade into those electronics weeds.
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Twitters of the Day: Starbucks, Han Solo, and Netscape— Following the best of Twitter so you don't have to... but you should, it's rad!
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New Mashtracker Tracks Social News Stories, Techmeme-Style— New "memetracker" focuses on blog conversations stemming from social news stories published by Mashable.
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There's No Way That Tom From MySpace "Personally Contacted" Tila Tequila— While MySpace is blocking widgets and music players, Tom is too busy being Tom to bother with Tila Tequila.
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The Power of Twitter Compels You— Are people talking about Twitter? That would be a 10-4.
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The End of the Twitter As We Know It (and I Feel Fine)— Despite early predictions to the contrary, Twitter will be around for the long haul. Even after the buzz wears off.
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Where Some See "Hyper-Localism," Others See More Choices— People are finding a full and rich palette of news sources and are able to cobble together their own version of the truth of the whole.
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Topix to Google: "You Could've Given Us Help, But You've Given Us So Much More"— "This can't be the process…You're cast into this amusing, Kafkaesque world to run your business."
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The Big Guns Come Out: Viacom Sues Google, YouTube For $1 Billion— The suit centers around an alleged 160,000 uploaded "unauthorized" video clips.
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Digg and Netscape Struggle to Prevent Gaming and Other Shenanigans— A successful experiment in buying a Digg front pager with low grade content proves that the big boy social news sites still have a ways to go to prevent gaming.
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Blogger Tags and the Mysteries of Search Engine Traffic— If you pull lots of search traffic you can sail off for six months and still have rip roaring stats when you get back.
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New York Considers Pedestrian Ban On iPods In Crosswalks— This is cruel and unusual punishment for the iPod set.
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How Does StumbleUpon Help Bloggers?— I'm a bit lost on how bloggers use StumbleUpon to drive traffic to individual stories.
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Is PayPerPost Trying to Outflank the Blogosphere's Defenses?— Can PayPerPost buy its way around and through the blogosphere's defenses? I hope not.
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The Grind and Crunch of Blog Production— The neurotic, incessant, nearly haunting drive to get in front of a keyboard.
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PayPerPost Adds New Features, But Does PayPerPost Add Up?— Does it all come down to the mysterious phrase: opportunity requirements?
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Top 10 Favorite Online Media Blogs: From Mathew Ingram to Deep Jive— If you're into online media and the web 2.0 world, this might be the list for you.
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The Economist Tinkers With Blogs to Expand Free Online Offerings— Traditional media continues its flirtation with blog-like offerings.
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Where Do You Store Your Online Valuables?— I'm convinced that something better is out there.
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As U.S. Media Jobs Slashed, Online Media Takes Another Step Into the Spotlight— This process will play out over a number of years, but we can safely say now that online media ain't no fad.
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MyBlogLog Integrates Flickr Features: Is A Social Networking Powerhouse For Bloggers On the Rise?— I think Yahoo! senses they have a winner on their hands, and will nudge MyBlogLog into a position to be the defacto "MySpace for Bloggers."
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Does Google Search Dominate Your Blog?— The simple answer is stick to the basics... and then hope that the Google Love in the end outweighs the Google Evil.
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Social Networking Blog Mashable Seeks to Pay Its Readers to Write Good Stuff— If Mashable manages to harness the skills, intelligence, and research powers of its own readership, look for other ambitious and growing sites to try something similar.
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Blog Traffic At Top U.S. Newspapers Explodes As Mainstream Media-Blogosphere Convergence Continues Breakneck-Like— People are reading them blogs. More than ever before, many probably don't even realize it.
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Netscape Represents the Future of News— The future of news sites will comprise three kinds of content, which will be mixed and matched and meshed together in all kinds of dizzying ways.
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SponsoredReviews: A New Assault on the Blogosphere's Credibility— The question is: how will the blogosphere defend its credibility in the coming days?
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Reuters Blogs: Where New Media Touches the Wire— Reuters.com, a place to meet all your daily blog-read needs?
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What's Your Favorite Go-To Downtime Site?— From Google News to Fark, from Drudge to Reddit, everyone needs a place to go when the post-lunch coma starts to set in.
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MyBlogLog Gets Acquired By Yahoo! And It Was Good— A new front in stimulating communication and networking comes in the form of MyBlogLog-style widgets, and Yahoo! was all over that.
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Finding Blogging Focus— It's a fascinating game: how to do something you love (writing and the online medium) while finding people that will come along for the ride.
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Free WiFi Coming to San Francisco While Pasadena Waits Nobly, Impatiently— A landmark development in lowering the digital divide?
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Can Feedburner's StandardStats Lead the Way to Better Internet Traffic Ranking?— A common definition of site traffic coupled with a standard way to measure all of the ways that people view Internet content may open the door to a better way to rank Internet traffic.
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Mochila, AP Stories, and Avoiding the Company of Sameness— Don't get hoodwinked by the promise of extra revenue. It isn't what you got into the blogging for.
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TechCrunch's Michael Arrington Announces Web 2.0 Companies "I Couldn't Live Without"— While most of these services didn't exist two or three years ago, they really are indispensable to the daily life of many web users as 2007 dawns.
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The House of Digg Produces New Offspring: Internet TV Venture Revision3— Traditional TV should take note, and start getting nervous quick-like.
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MeeVee Dishes Personalized TV Listings Via Widgets— It's a natural fit for a company like MeeVee to produce a widget that can be installed on social networking profiles and blogs.
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The World Gets Flatter, My Internet Gets Broker, And Google Gets More Big Brotherer— When I was a kid it was "I Want My MTV." Today, I want my WiFi!
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Fearing the Future: New York Times Goes Negative On Netscape— Change is hard. Just ask The New York Times.
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YouTube Does Deal With NBC, e-Street Cred Increased All Around— This is something akin to Universal going to Napster in 1999 and saying, "We want to do a cross-promotional thing, cool?"
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Netscape, AOL Look to Crush the Web 2.0 Out of Digg, Reddit— More confirmation that “Web 2.0 ideology,” whatever that is, has penetrated traditional online media sources and is certainly here to stay.
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OnHollywood 2006: Tech and Entertainment Worlds Collide— Put tech innovators, Silicon Valley-based venture capitalists, and Hollywood entertainment execs in a room, and what do you get?
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MySpace Makes Room For The Office Staff— MySpace.com: one step closer to living in The Matrix?
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Memeorandum Tracks Down the Baseball Bug— Ballbug is the latest successful spinoff from the Memeorandum family of news and web conversation-tracking websites.
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Is the Easiest Way to Read the News Necessarily the Best?— Should you go to news or should news come to you? Should someone decide for you what to read or should "collective wisdom" rule the roost?
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Web 2.0 Innovators: Mapping the New Stars
— Something called a Web 2.0 Innovation Map serves up a means to find out what the best and brightest are tinkering with these 2.0 days.
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iPod Powering The Office?— "The Office" gets a ratings boost from iPod-video downloads.
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Interview: Eric Olsen of Blogcritics.org – Part II— Eric Olsen is the founder and publisher of BlogCritics.org, the website where a “sinister cabal of bloggers” roam and analyze and review and pontificate. In this second part of a...
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Ten Million and Counting: Blogcritics.org Just Keeps on Coming— I’m not even sure how I stumbled across Blogcritics.org, but the occurrence changed my life in some small but real and meaningful way. I’d feel a little silly writing that...
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Fox Busts Out With the Podcasting— In further evidence that podcasting – largely free audio content stored on the Internet that can be downloaded, saved, and played on computers and handheld digital music players – is...
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Interview: Eric Olsen of BlogCritics.org – Part I— Eric Olsen is the founder and publisher of BlogCritics.org, the website where a “sinister cabal of bloggers” roams and analyzes and reviews and pontificates. During a long and expansive conversation...
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Interview: Cary Tennis, Salon.com Advice Columnist— Cary Tennis is Salon.com’s resident advice columnist. Since You Asked… is a bastion for those looking for an open ear, a story or aside that isn’t afraid to drop in...
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Interview: Podcaster Lance Anderson of Verge of the Fringe— Lance Anderson is a Los Angeles-based podcaster and storyteller. His podcast, Verge of the Fringe, can frequently be found near the top of the rankings at Podcast Alley. I met...
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Google Files Patents, Seeks Search Engine Quality and Quantity— Nobody uses Yahoo! or Lycos or any other Web search engine as a verb. Except Google, a word that has come as close to referring to the scouring of the...
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MSNBC Name Change Rumors and Drudge Report: Where is our news coming from?— Several news sources are now citing a Drudge Report item that sketches out an apparent name change for cable news network MSNBC to NBC News Network. From the New York...
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Dumpster Bust Interviews: Michael Geoghegan of Reel Reviews - Part II— In this second of two installments, Michael Geoghegan talks about how he got involved with podcasting and creating Reel Reviews: Films Worth Watching, the connection between podcasting and blogs,...
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Dumpster Bust Interviews: Michael Geoghegan of Reel Reviews - Part I
— While still in its infancy, podcasting is one fast-growing baby (Wikipedia defines podcasting as “a web-based broadcast medium… like an audio magazine subscription"). Cheap to produce, easy and...
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DB Media Shakedown: Salon.com Digs Through Celebrity Blogs, Comes up Empty— I have a blog. It’s called Dumpster Bust. On it, I write about politics, books, music, movies, the media, the Internet, and just about anything else that pops into...
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Hey, How’s Your News: The State of the News Media— A major study, conducted by the Project for Excellence in Journalism, entitled “The State of the News Media,” takes a multi-faceted look into where the news media stands in...
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Dumpster Bust: I Scream for iPod— iTunes, iPod, podcasts, iTrip: The Four Steps to Modern Day Bliss. Step right this way, my children...
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