Dennis D. McDonald (ddmcd@ddmcd.com)consults from Alexandria Virginia. His services include writing & research, proposal development, and project management.
Before you proclaim the ascendancy of community orientation, audience engagement, shared innovation, and online social partnership, you need to realize that good old contempt-for-the-customer is alive and kicking.
Animation expert Michael Barrie's comments about Monster House and Through a Scanner Darkly are so different from mine that I thought I would comment here.
Those familiar with the bottom left side of the front page of this web site know that I usually post the picture of a famous (to me) person whose birthday it is.
Instead of carving a pumpkin this year (last year I carved Thomas the Tank Engine and the year before John Kerry) I created a playlist containing selections from my music collection that I thought had a spooky, ethereal, or weird sense.
While walking the dog this morning I listened to a Harvard Business Review podcast that discussed the coming amalgamation of ecommerce, social networking, and virtual worlds. The topics discussed included how some companies are setting up virtual shops in Second Life.