Coalition helps connect the dom-coms.(Information Technology Coalition)(Brief Article)

The Internet industry may be in its childhood -- if not still in its infancy -- but it's not too soon for Internet executives to start growing up.

Don't get us wrong. We're not buying any of the rising baying by self-appointed community activists and others about how "dot-com yuppies" and their minions have become the new scourge of the city.

Quite the opposite, in fact. We're encouraged that dot-commers have looked up from building their companies long enough to form a local lobbying group that will represent their interests. As reported in the Business Times last week, 40 such companies have banded together to form the Information Technology Coalition. …