Well, not quite. But a site called The Long Tail has compiled some interesting figures : Music: sales last year were down 21% from their peak in 1999 Television: network TV’s audience share has fallen by a third since 1985 Radio: listenership is at a 27-year low Newspapers: circulation peaked in 1987, and the decline is accelerating Magazines: total circulation ...

Lisa "M" at Rhetoric of Me has commented–I think accurately–on the anxiety in the nonprofit sector about embracing blogging and other new Internet-based communication strategies. Indeed, it seems to me that if you fire a shot in any direction in cyberspace you’re going to hit a mess of control issues. Our institutions were set up for stability, not for change. ...

Looks like the Indians and Chinese are going to have some competition in their plans to capture the future of IT…Russia and others.  From InfoWorld: In an effort to jump-start its economy and diminish its dependence on natural resources like oil, Russia has made local IT development one of its top priorities, with plans for infrastructure growth, regional "technoparks," and ...

I mentioned an article by Thomas Friedman a week ago that argued that Americans need to be aware that, in his opinion, the world is being reshaped–Globalism 3.0–by technology so much that it’s not just a small world anymore, it’s a flat world. People, economies, and labor supplies aren’t "on the other side of the world," they’re right next door. ...