Forward, to the future
August 29th will mark, if you can believe it, the seventh anniversary of the first post on this blog.
So much has happened since then - our baby was followed two years later by another baby, and now the two of them are bright and articulate little boys, exceptionally well-versed in the spiritual choices of Anakin Skywalker, but otherwise devoid of any sense of restraint or moral compunction (I am grooming them for careers in finance).
It really was a different time, as this article from Wikipedia illustrates...
- A new (NATO) command group had taken over in Afghanistan
- There were concerns about Pakistan assisting the Taliban
- The Russians were dealing with unrest in Chechnya and Dagestan
- North Korea was at the center of international crisis around its nuclear program
- California floundered through a fiscal crisis as its ineffectual lame duck governor contemplated political oblivion
Anyway, what should we do here? What with this new social media popping up, maybe we could migrate the whole kit and kaboodle over to Myspace, or Friendster, or Blippy, where we could take advantage of the advantages of Web 2.0, as this video illustrates:
I look forward to collaboratively synergizing with you to develop a social media strategy that will take our brand to the next level.
Semi-serious note: maybe we should wait for Diaspora?
posted by The Front at 9:17 PM
3 Comments:
Wow, it has been a long time!
By the way, about social networks: I'm waiting for a non-profit social network. I don't care what promises somebody makes when they're starting out: those promises of protecting your privacy are worth precisely nothing, in the long run.
Prediction:
Facebook = AOL
Diaspora (and other open-source/open-standards based social networks) = The Web
Eventually we'll just be running a node on one of these, just as we currently run one now.
The non-profit model, or more precisely the reinvested profit model, seems to create far more stable, lawful and beneficial organizations.
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