Social media and WWW architecture

My browsing today brought me to a very interesting presentation, about 30 minutes, by Douglas Rushkoff as closing remarks to a 2 or 3 day conference on using social media to promote brand marketing. This corporatized marketing focus apparently ticked him off. I discovered it on the Dreamflesh blog (http://dreamflesh.com/blog/) where it is introduced with this comment:

Douglas Rushkoff spontaneously lent me some money ages ago to fund my weird publishing ventures. When I could pay him back, he refused the offer.

So of course I have a background rosy feeling about the guy. But, while I found his recent books Life Inc. and Program or Be Programmed to be well-written, sound advice, none of it comes close to this closing keynote talk he gave at a social media conference. He says:

I got really tired of listening to brand managers talk about their “Twitter strategies,” and by the time my closing keynote came around, it felt like I had watched the corporatization [of] the net recapitulated over the course of the afternoon.

Please watch this if you’ve not come across Douglas’ recent ideas.

Getting back...

Working the past 2-plus months on a major house remodeling job. It's been exhausting most days, but now all the heavy work is completed and the last few finishing details are under way. During this time I've been mulling over my educational roots in expository writing and journalism, my life experiences, and what I know to be my purpose for being here on earth. This might be quite a story. Perhaps I will begin to unfold it here on this blog. A correspondent with more experience with blog writing and online newsletters, focused on the urgent needs of the world and the difficulty of moving our almost exclusively materialist culture, society and economy in the direction of sustainability, has suggested I begin with an account of an auto accident in my 20s, during which I had a near death, out of body experience (NDE/OBE)...the aftermath of which resulted in a complete redirection of my life into human service activities, away from what I had planned as a career as a sculptor and college teacher. I'm working on it.

It's still on my mind....

Boy, the last six months have kept me jumping! It's still that way. Now I'm trying to get back on the blogging path. Updated some of the blog page design elements: useful information, no real control over the blog's layout. But that's okay with me for now. Just getting the high sign for dinner, so will get back to this another time.