Richard Chennault
Over the years I’ve been reading a series of books about culture and communication. I believe my interest stem from my fascination with history starting from early Roman to modern times. I’m fascinated with the way we as a species have developed over the past two millennium. What is of particular interest is how societies … Read More “Death of Democracy; long live Capatalism” »
The last year has seen a marked decrease in the amount of entries to my blog. Several reasons come to mind. First this blog is really for me and not so much for other to learn about me. Admittedly some entries like the Lost Chennault’s have received a fair number of views most of … Read More “I'm not writing much” »
There is a desire at work to participate in social media. The ‘powers that be’ wish to know how the corporation can (choose verb) leverage, utilize, market, consume, advantagize [sic] the hyperbole surrounding blogs, vlogs, wikis and blikis. There has been expressed a desire to purchase property on Second Life and (choose verb) promote, market, … Read More “My Second Life” »
I was having a random conversation today where one conversationalist complained that TV today lacked the family wholesomeness of yore. I thought about it for all of two seconds and quickly disagreed. Lets take a closer look at some of those old shows. First up the Partridge Family. Now who wouldn’t admire the gumption of … Read More “TV ain't what it used to be…” »
When was the birth of corporate communications? When did human society become so subsumed with the control of information that it required communication control? Perhaps the prehistoric man knows and I bet so do we all. Information is life. It is colors are canvas, enriches are wallet and ends our misery if we are so … Read More “Controlled communication” »
Today I attended multiple shorter sessions. A few were blather blather. i did find the talk by Forrester interesting as it continued to reinforce my own understanding of the use of web 2.0 in the enterprise. I’ll be ordering Groundswell from Amazon soon. I went a session with a colleauge on Web 2.0 and mobile … Read More “Live from Web 2.0 Expo part II” »
Reverse technology anthropomorphism is a process where complex human interactions are described through computer technology interactions. The goal is to highlight the advantages of the technology while masking the complexities of communications I said it first (as far as I can determine).
I’ve often written about the inappropriateness of blogging about work. It is just is not wise for one’s long term career goals. All that being said I still am want to say something.  Well today I did, sort of, say something.  I was in a meeting discussing social media and I was asked if a … Read More “Don't speak your mind” »
I’ve often written about the inappropriateness of blogging about work. It is just is not wise for one’s long term career goals. All that being said I still am want to say something. Well today I did, sort of, say something. I was in a meeting discussing social media and I was asked if a … Read More “Don’t speak your mind” »
“The numerical versioning of human organizational clusters is an example of reverse anthropomorphosis.” What the hell? I’m trying to parse this gibberish and I wrote it. Lance would give this as a perfect example of how we need to revert back to simple english or whatever he calls it. I may even have to agree … Read More “Mocking myself or Web 2.0?” »