Rodent Regatta

This morning I put together a piece that I titled Old Economy. When I wrote it I was in a mindset that was fascinated by the enormous prices being bid for Qwest’s yellow pages business. It didn’t dawn on me until prompted that what I wrote sounded a little like a rebuttal to John Robb’s excellent pieces New Economy and New Economy II. Nothing could be further from the truth. I don’t agree with everything in John’s essays, but what I wrote wasn’t intended as a response.
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