Originally posted some time in late 2009. Still think it's going to happen. Guess I'm just a...futurist. - dp (writing 6.30.2011) It's inevitable. And for many, it's going to be painful. I'm talking about what happens when the first wave of Social Networking enthusiasts crashes into the rocks of real.We've already seen the first of its victims. Remember that wack mom who faked her Space and quite possibly led to the suicide of a teenager?…

Originally posted some time in 2009. Re o t d oo re ak a oin . - dp You see it all over the place, every day. Puzzles. Games. Invitations to engage/enrage/enrapture. Pattern recognition: it's fundamental to our very survival and has been hard wired into our brains since Ogg figured out those things in the dirt pointing in one direction meant there was food on the hoof somewhere over that a way. People really,…

Originally posted some time in 2009. Reposted because this is a personal manifesto that's truer and truer every day. And yes, obnoxious pedants, truer is a word. - dp (writing 6.30.2011) Ah, the good old days. You come up with a product, gloss it up with some graphics, and then pick one of a handful of communications channels and pummel the entire United States until they staggered out like zombies to buy it. Even if…

Originally posted some time in 2009. Don't Facebook as much, or Twitter. Too dang busy (shoemaker's children, if you know what I mean.) - dp I have a confession to make. I signed up for a Twitter account close to a year ago. Had to. Working in advertising/marketing, especially on the creative side, demands keeping up with all the latest, even if it's dumb, halfbaked, or just plain stupid (think: Jonas Brothers). So I signed…

Originally posted some time in 2009. Recycled for maximum blog churn. - dp There's been a lot of Cable TV babble about cell phones, "location based" services, and the creeping fear of Big Brother knowing where I am, what I'm buying, what I'm watching, what I'm thinking! ARRGGGH! My advice: just relax. And if you're really, really worried, just turn off your phone dipstick! This has been the same fear/pseudo argument of the Luddites since…