Last week I blogged a piece about the Business Week article on the echo boomers. The FT have given Lee Raine from the Pew Internet Project front page coverage on their fortnighlty Digital Business *supplement today to develop an essay on the arrival of internet natives in the workplace. It argues that the typical 21 year old graduate fronts up for his first day at work having clocked up 5,000 hours of video gaming, having exchanged 250,000 e mails, IMs and mobile texts, 10,000 hours of mobile use and 3,500 hours online ! This 'You Tube' generation Raine argues are likely to challenge the conventional practices and structures of typical organisations. Well we will see...

The FT is running a great series of pieces this week on New Britain todays illuminating - if somewhat depressing - report by Chris Giles suggests that the rewards of globalisation are not evenly spread (which is, I guess, hardly a surprise). Contrasting economic growth rates in two valleys the Tees and the Thames he consludes that the lessons of the last nine years is that '21st century globalisation favours the well connected and the well- heeled over the distant and the deprived'