As a career media professional and registered Independent, I appreciate the State’s concerns over the proliferation of Citizen (social) media — and its influences and outcomes — over the past decade. My profession felt almost nationalized as everyone became instant publishers; no experience, no accountability required. I get it, believe me. However, it is precisely…
Category: E-Commerce
Does the right to advertise supersede the right to privacy? Facebook’s odd math problem (reason #4, why I left)
Remove the advertising from Facebook and you remove the need for privacy invading data that advertisers need in order to target users. Offer an ad-free alternative to its 2.52 billion users at a low monthly fee of only $5 each, with privacy, and its income would go from $55 billion to $140 billion. No ads…
If a corporation is a “Person,” what’s its gender identity?
If everyone is equal under the law in the USA, no matter our gender, then why is gender identity causing so many conflicts in our courts and greater culture? And if corporations are considered to be people under the law, then those corporations must also have a gender identity, which is what? And how can…
Healing to evolve with creative purpose: The Back Talk Cafe doll project
I started the doll project, BackTalkCafe.com, little more than a year and a half or so ago with a simple idea: Create a story series using dolls as the character actors. Simple, no cost, no pressure. Yet, it unfolded in ways I could never have expected. Not enough gravity Almost two years ago, reeling from…
Inspiration: Setting standards for e-commerce customer experiences
When I started the doll story project more than a year-and-a-half ago, I purchased a lot of older dolls online new in boxes with the idea of keeping the ones that fit the story then simply re-selling those that didn’t. I’d received many a sloppy and damaged box from ebay doll purchases, so when I…
