Not only is the management of US corporations currently in sharp decline. Studies show that US education also puts the future in peril. Yet there is no sign that politicians will put aside partisan squabbling to deal with a national MORE >>

Life is complex, but sometimes it comes down to taking sides. don’t mean about Wikileaks. As Micah Sifry [twitter: mlsif ] has tweeted, “I don’t know if I’m pro-Wikileaks, but I know I’m anti-anti-Wikileaks.&#. Me, too. Especially when the full power of government and commerce is unleashed against it. MORE >>

David W. Campbell writes , "We have over 11,000 more workers in health care today in New Brunswick compared to 1999 with no real evidence of better outcomes. We are spending $1.2 billion more this year than in 1999 on health care." Implicit in this argument is the supposition that the level of health care in 1999 in NB was adequate. It was not. MORE >>

SmartCompany recently featured an excellent article on The next 10 social media trends , which received considerable attention and was syndicated through a number of other outlets. was quoted in the article talking about social shopping and mini-blogging. Here are a few further thoughts on mini-blogs. as easily as possible. MORE >>

Prometheus stole fire from the Gods but was punished by being chained to a rock, his liver pecked at for eternity by birds of prey. And so it turned out for Promethean, the UK Whiteboard company. It’s being hailed as the ‘worst flotation of 2010’ and its shareprice has just collapsed. And so it came to pass. But has it worked? M.A.S.E., MORE >>