Eubie's notes

NY Times: The overwhelming traffic of e-mail is driving an increasing number of employers to find ways to control the load.

NY Times: Two new books make the case for a drastic simplification of the tax code. Writer’s conclusion: These books, to use the language on the jacket of “Flat Tax Revolution,” are calls to join a crusade. We’d be better off just starting a conversation.

NY Times: According to the spate of best-selling self-help books, to get rich you have to think like a millionaire. See earlier Better than Monopoly about the industry that’s grown up around “Rich Dad, Poor Dad.”

Mike Wendland: Tune in to CB Radio and you’ll find that it still rules on the road

NY Times: More companies are waking up to the fact that the 76 million baby boomers are moving into old age. So, AARP is stepping up its own competitive heat.

Washington Post: Mukit Hossain never expected his charity work to impede his business career. For months he spent his days trying to launch a new Internet phone company, and his nights trying to raise support to build centers for day laborers in Herndon.

NY Times: As Google increasingly becomes the starting point for finding information, companies are beginning to view the company with some angst, mixed with admiration.

Wired News: Commentary — Technology makes it possible for us to work harder than ever. If you’re lucky, you get paid more for your labors. Then you consume more. And the cycle repeats itself. Is this the sign of a healthy society? Ummmm … no.

US Department of Energy: Wind Energy, NC Solar and Britsh Wind Energy Association: I want my own turbine. Others: Scoraig Wind Electric and Windstuffnow.com

Washington Post: Average weekday circulation at U.S. newspapers fell 2.6 percent during the six month-period ending in September in the latest sign of trouble in the newspaper business, an industry group reported Monday.

Also WSJ: Newspapers in an Electronic Age: The newspaper industry is now roughly 400 years old, and, generally speaking, it is confronting a “disruptive” change unprecedented in its history. and Romenesko.

From Howard Kurtz: The journalism business is suffering from a double-barreled depression that stretches far beyond the travails of a single paper. If the industry were a person, a shrink would prescribe Prozac.