There’s an interesting article in the New York Times today (full story: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/31/us/31divide.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin) indicating that more African-Americans are going online and therefore closing the "digital divide" that was once thought to be a roadblock to the success of this community. Here’s a quick overview:

African-Americans, even those at the lower end of the economic scale, [...]

In a recent Business Innovation Factory profile Jim Lavoie, CEO of Rite-Solutions, talks about his innovation model and how he encourages his 150 employees to participate in continuous innovation. Rite-Solutions has set up a stock market for ideas, and the employees use the wisdom of crowds to help management determine the ideas and process solutions [...]

William C. Taylor, founding editor of Fast Company, writes in The New York Times that a top company called Rite-Solutions focuses "on an internal market where any employee can propose that the company acquire a new technology, enter a new business or make an efficiency improvement. These proposals become stocks, complete with ticker symbols, discussion [...]

Many financial institutions are conducting seminars, camps and work shops for the 20-30 age group of very wealthy families. Usually with assets of a $100m and up. J.P. Morgan invites young adults to their Next Generation Leadership seminars.  Citigroup Private Bank runs a course focusing on children of their wealthy clients.  Wachovia, Lehman Brothers, and [...]

Here’s a link to a story that has been reported everywhere on the net today: IBM announced that it has made the first nanoscale integrated circuit from a single carbon nanotube molecule. Oooh! Ahhh!…Eh, so what?
It means that the Moore’s Law of creating faster, smaller, cheaper electronic circuits that are at the heart of every [...]

Pretty much like everybody I was getting spam with my personal email. I ignored it for quite a while because I don’t use that email address a lot. Then it turned into a torrent of phony email, and I thought I’d have to abandon that address.
Instead I installed Thunderbird, the email client that is a [...]

For some time we’ve been getting a little trackback and comment spam on FISpace. Suddenly this week it turned into a flood, and some of it links to naughty sites. So I’ve reconfigured FISpace so all comments and trackbacks are held for my approval before they are posted. If you make a comment, it won’t [...]

The Census Bureau’s recently released 242-page report on the aging  population showed that todays older Americans are markedly different from previous generations.  They are more prosperous. And that difference will accelerate as the first boomers hit retirement age in 2011. 
The coming changes will have a profound effect on the face of American society and [...]

Young donors pressed for cash, driven to make a difference, yet turned off by seated dinners are turning to dodgeball tournaments, scavenger hunts, mustache-growing contests and a host of other unusual incentives to raise money. 
Should we revisit Jail and Bail?

You can hear and see some of the interesting sessions from SXSW – check it out!