Brown Motion

Recently survived a 3 day conference of marketing experts and technology crusaders and CEOs (essentially a lot of type 'A' and some D+ personalities) espousing the virtues of what is now commonly refered to as the 'Social Network'. Ah - that is not to say that people did not network prior to the coining of said term - or that they were not social. It is merely depicting a technology enabled access and rapidly scalable version of connecting people that may have at one point been engaged in a relationship - perfunctory or profound; then forgotten of each others' existence after their respective careers or life streams took them afar. Facebook happens to be the 'King of the Hill' and a rapidly ascended King @ that in this space. So what of this concept and its applicability to what are called 'Millenials' (another jargonized word depciting people legal to drink but under the age of 34 today). This demographic (numbering close to 70 Million Ame...

Quite an oxymoron don't you think? I mean - if I did not have anything to say what the heck am I typing for? But such is life these days. Many outlets in the so called broadcasting business or serious journalism for that matter are filling the void with something akin to antimatter. What they publish is actually detrimental for the common good. Of course its just another point of view of where things are. Mine! Take for example the ramblings about the state of the economy. Do we really need a 24 x 7 news channel to make that point? As someone once noted - when you are unemployed the unemployment rate is 100%, no matter what the averages and the government or the so called pundits are yakking. So fear-mongering and ratings battle aside (rated by equally airheaded peers) there is not much that comes our way of intelligent and informed reporting. No matter, the public which is dazed and confused uses it as a tool for passing time - watercooler conversations that again ha...