>In "The Real Reasons You're Working So Hard..."
>http://biz.yahoo.com/special/workhard05_article1.html Michael Mandel
>and colleagues at BusinessWeek Online propose blogging -- blogging!
>-- as one potential cure for they call "this epidemic of long hours
>at the office".You don't believe me? Of course not, it would be a
>silly thing to say:
>
>"Blogs, collaborative online databases (called wikis) and
>open-source software development all use the Net to handle much of
>the coordination among people rather than relying on top-down
>command and control. Such a shift to a digital spine could
>eventually lessen bureaucratic time burdens on overworked
>professionals, especially those in such high-cost industries as
>health care."
>
>The last time I heard anything that dopey was circa 1994 when this
>new thingy, the Internet was supposed to be going to foster genuine
>democracy.
And Michael Mandel really shook his pom-poms in that cheerleading squad. He was one of the prime ideologists of The New Economy. Not surprising to see him back on the job.
Doug