What’s the Value of the Information Economy?
I subscribe to the Sunday New York Times so I can access the New York Times on line. I subscribe to Andrew Sullivan's Dish blog and to Rhapsody's music library. I subscribe to Netflix, too. I pay money for those services. But beyond that, almost everything else I do on [...]
Are Millennials Really Different?
Yes, says consultant Tom Agan, in a column in the New York Times. He holds that Millennials -- people in the workplace born after 1980 -- are more accustomed to the rapid, real-time networking and information sharing associated with the use of texting and social media. Social media permeate the [...]
The Three-Legged Puppy
Jackson died last night. He wasn’t missing a leg but, at a little less than four months old, he was missing a functioning liver. Of course, we didn’t know this when we brought him home four weeks ago. He was born with a liver shunt, something not uncommon in puppies [...]
