TypePad is going to implement “domain mapping” soon. I take that to mean we’ll be able to get our own domain name like “www.fispace.org” and use it instead of the TypePad domain.

Here’s an article about a conference in Vienna on open source—software and other-ware—as a form of social reform. It echoes the Internet’s original mantra: “Information wants to be free.” The ethos of the meeting evidently endorses share and share-alike collectivism, and the author questions it. Forget the retro-socialist rhetoric. The old capitalism/socialism debate seems pretty anachronistic these days. However, what ...

I’ve been watching the US Open today, and I saw the first ad for nanotechnology. Hewlett Packard has a 60-second ad talking about things 1,000th of a human hair wide and the things they may do. I put this on a par with the first time I saw a PC commercial about 25 years ago. It was a beginning. Of ...

The report on the dysfunctional management culture at NASA that contributed to the destruction of the shuttle Columbia shows that corporate culture can be a killer, literally.