REBECCA RYAN MEETS THE BLOGGERS (AND SHE'S NOT EVEN RUNNING FOR MAYOR)

"THE Gen-Xpert" who is "moving the American workplace to its next threshold of success" (it says so right here on her business card) comes off in this MTB conversation as a nice, intelligent, level-headed young entrepreneur/researcher who's just trying to share her data.

Well, okay... but what's all this on the website about how "her brilliance in presenting [trends] to professionals at all levels, makes her one of America's most captivating communicators and futurists"?

Can you say "cognitive dissonance"?

In case you missed it, Ryan raised some dust in Akron recently by taking a six-digit fee to produce a report for the Chamber of Commerce on how to make the city more attractive to "Gen-Xers". Her eighteen top recommendations are here. Her harshest Akron blogcritic is here.