Solvation

Stuck in the middle with you

No doubt about it, Generation X has had bad press for fielding leaders. The one that set me off about a month ago was an article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review:
- that there aren't as many of them as the Boomers (false; I ran the 2000 census data in an earlier entry)
- that there aren't any that have emerged (which is an odd thing to say, as the founders of Google, eBay and Amazon are all officially born of Generation X; and there has been a shocking amount of media/aesthetic leadership that must be overlooked if Generation X's leadership capabilities are to be found lacking, en masse).
- that Generation X doesn't protest. (This is subject to interpretation: I actually think the vehement acceptance or refusal to "drink corporate kool-aid" -- where excessive profits is supposed to be good for mankind a la Supply Side Economics -- is to GenX what the acceptance or refusal to buy into the communist "domino theory" was for the Boomers.  But that's just a theory.)

Who DOESN'T like the Internet - and why

This is a fabulous article from from First Monday.  Why shouldn't we assume that all consumers (if you're a business) or parents and children (if you're interested in education and other community-based communication) at least *want* to have internet access?

Pew Internet Life statistics (Fox, 2005) show that the percent of “truly disconnected” Americans has remained stable since 2002 at just over 20 percent.

Unpacking "I Don't Want It" -- why novices and non-users don't use the Internet, by R. Michelle Green.  http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_9/green/