Written by Eric Berlin. Something that web workers deal with throughout the day but don’t spend a lot of time talking about is the deluge of e-mail alerts, updates, and notifications that batter us like a cacophonous rain of data throughout the day, much of it due to the social media web sites tha...

Written by Eric Berlin. If the “Web 2.0 era” marks the time when widgets became a household term (in web workers’ homes, at least!), 2009 is looking like a year when widgets are evolving and maturing to add real value for web site publishers and their visitors. Whether you’re...

By Eric Berlin of Online Media Cultist (FriendFeed/Twitter) 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 st...

Editor's Note: As I noted last night, Facebook is quickly becoming the standard by which many social networking and social media sites are being analyzed, described and measured. Still, as Eric says below, not all are converted, preferring more dedicated sites, including Twitter and FriendFeed. This...

The other day I was doing housework while listening to my iPod. An amazing, mind blowingly great song by Bob Dylan popped on. I don’t recall having heard it before, but I’ll never forget it. It’s called Hurricane, and it’s about eight and a half minutes long. I liked it so mu...

New post up over on louisgray.com, this one’s called Socialtwist’s Widget Puts New Twist On Social Content Sharing. Here’s a clip: The idea is that the widget is easily installable, highly customizable, supports more than 80 services, and comes packed with analytics so that you can...

By Eric Berlin of Online Media Cultist (FriendFeed/Twitter) When reading a blog post, it's not uncommon that you will see a "Share This!" button at the bottom that you allows you to do such things as share it with friends or to publish it on your own blog or social media profile. A new Tell-a-Friend...

I was asked by Mona, a fellow contributor at louisgray.com, to do my part and level best in adding to the latest web meme. I replied that I love to talk about myself… shutting me up may be the hard part! In that spirit, I give you 25 mostly non-webby things that you may not know about me. And ...

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 cove...

Mike Fruchter, a social media machine in his own right, turned me onto a really unique blogger/videoblogger named Perry Belcher, who I recommend checking out. I watched several of Belcher’s informative and entertaining videoblogs today, and they were refreshing on a few different levels. First...