[editor's note: Phooey on Digg. Sorry that this post is a bit of a repeat, but I used their "blog this" link and all it ended up doing was truncating what I wrote and didn't put any links in the body of the post (which is just my style). So I'm posting this again with some additional information]

So Gen X were slackers and Gen Y are kickin’ it? There are some nice statistics on Steven Johnson’s blog that show that our new Web medium is encouraging participation and entrepreneurship. Kids rule! —give them video games. And maybe Johnson is right in his tome “Everything Bad is Good For You” that this development has more to do with a generation that has grown up with interactive mediums (i.e. video games and the web) than a generation that grew up with a passive medium (i.e. television).

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On may 11th, I (finally) finished up a bachelor of science in economics that I had postponed back in 1997! You can check out a few photos of the official event here. I never ever planned on graduating from Clemson University. I grew up in the vicinity of that institution and some rebellious teenage instinct kept me from ever considering it a place to attend. But I have to say that in the last year and a half I found a new appreciation for both the University and the students there. Clemson has made a serious endeavor to become a nationally ranked top 20 public university and with all the activity there, it really looks like they could pull it off. I have been especially impressed with the efforts of the current president Jim Barker. I wish them the best of luck! But one of the nice things about graduating from the University where your father teaches mathematics (aside from lots of free lunches) is the hug you getat the end of the graduation line. So, at least now, some of the posts you read here about economics will have slightly more validity!

I just got out of a Globalism seminar here at Clemson University, led by Frank Polo, a retired professor, called “Is Globalism Working?” The answer, with a resounding thud, was no. Read more…