Sorry for the deleted comments folks

Sometimes I need to deal with comment spam posted here. Today it got brutal and I lost a bunch of legitimate comment postings. One way I deal with this is to close every comments thread on the site after the post has just about fallen off my home page. It takes work, but ya do what ya gotta do.

We’re re-connecting, but marketers have been working against it for the longest time

Tonight on frontline will be a documentary I hope you’ll take the time to see. Rushkoff, the author of the documentary (Wired) gives voice to a concern I’ve probably chatted the ear off of one too many people – that marketer’s slicing us into smaller and smaller sellable demographics is bad for our health, and he recognizes a truth that I believe in my heart – we have a need to connect to other people.

Should be an interesting show.

The rise (return?) of open source politics

Not too long ago, we talked about how we were “bowling alone”. We were moving towards a disconnected future: disconnected family, disconnected friends, disconnected past times, and ultimately – disconnected democracy.

Tools have emerged that empower us to reconnect (The Nation), just when stakes have become highest in a generation. And we are using them! This isn’t as sudden as some might suggest, and it’s been happening under the radar of one too many pundits. Myself included. I got a feeling politics will be redefined as much as the music and publishing industries have been.

Despite the outcome of the election – I think it’s an exciting time.