The Declustering of America: "With the new telecommunications technology, it is increasingly easy for a firm to operate in a dispersed manner".  Although only really discussing geography, I find articles like this fascinating, of course, because today are living early forms of the "next company" described by Peter Drucker:  "By now the new information technology — Internet and e-mail — have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications. This has meant that the most productive and most profitable way to organise is to disintegrate." [Ray Ozzie's Weblog]

Thanks to Ray Ozzie for this. I am proud to say that Coraider is a "Next Company" already!

5:14:03 PM    

Officials blocked Wodehouse honour
The Foreign Office for years blocked a knighthood for the comic writer PG Wodehouse, newly released records reveal.

Mick Jagger's got one now.

10:10:09 AM    

A spectre over Central Europe
Even now, a quarrel over one obscure side-effect of the second world war could threaten the enlargement of the 21st-century European Union

Amazing. I have never even heard of the Benes decrees

7:26:03 AM