Be sure to ask business applications questions about technical nutrients, bionomics and systems dynamics and watch for the confused looks.

This has detail a whole lot of other stories lack. Pity if it’s not in the press release it ain’t getting into the business article.

A dialog would be social. Can’t have that. A telling selection, when better videos about what people are doing today are readily available.

No result. Not one technique. Nothing to do but utter “social network” like an incantation from some kind of cargo cultist; not exactly futuristic or progressive; nor hopeful for the future. Interesting choice.

Sorry, but I live with the solutions your video merely longs for. It is not pessimism to report on the state of the vast majority of use. (If you care to watch users).

But it’s not defeatism. Simple prescriptive action — specifically interaction design.

Defeatism might be more aptly directed toward the buzzword compliant glee club making a fuss over the mediocre, the mundane, while touting every minor blip as a revolution.

That introducing interaction designers is interpreted as defeatist pessimism, it merely tells me no productive improvement is forthcoming.

And it will be a long time before interaction designers and ethnographers are introduced into the equation to move out of the shallow end of kiddie pools like FarmVille.

Right now, anything from outside a one dimensional “collaboration” is noise, and filtered out.

There is little technical facility to recognize a dissenting voice as a valued diversity making the whole project better. So you get projects which represent hothouse orchids at best, the Dodo as more common worst.

As previously discussed elsewhere, there is no “Medici Effect,” simply an echo chamber of groups oozing consensus from every pore.

Here is the key bit “..We have the ability now to connect to millions of people around the word, but who are these people?”

This is an age of access, not of information. Open networks and closed minds.

In the vast majority of cases, these tools are used like a drunk uses a lamppost — for support rather than illumination.

Tim: No chance of cost recovery, but we might consider a big marble carving (instead of a bronze plaque) to memorialize Hagan’s legacy.

With his buddy Dimora, Hagan managed to strap cement shoes on the County budget as he walked out the door. (Meanwhile, Sam and Albert — the other half of this dynamic — have gotten their revenge.)

This decade old soap opera (Med Mart, Convention Center, Tower City) is nearly an end, but the County will take decades to recover from the madness.

At this point, what is our chance of cost recovery against Tim Hagan and others? Can we begin to talk about taking our money back when we have these instances of engineered payouts by wannabees?