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In today’s Sunday paper a favorite economics columnist of mine, Tappan Monroe, commented on the growing economic power of China and India. I like him because he’s a pretty sober economist who doesn’t seem to have any particular political agenda behind his remarks. I’ll quote a bit because I suspect the article will disappear into the newspaper’s archives pretty soon. ...

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 ...