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Another step in a new direction Social Software … the ability to graphically display people’s connections with each other via the e-mails they send each other over a mailing list. This is a powerful tool, one that may be useful if we ACS can use it to identify the existing relationships specifically with regards to our mailing lists and bulletin ...

FI Space now has it’s own unique little URL: http://www.fispace.org Same username and password. From now on all posts will be to www.fispace.org The old URL still works but you have to log in twice (as you may have discovered already!).

So what’s this global sourcing of knowledge worders (see part 1) mean for ACS? Well, my experience is that the ACS is pretty much a middle class institution, so the closer the death-of-the-middle-class scenario plays out the more significant the impact. Our income and our volunteer resource comes from discretionary time and money. If sustaining a middle class lifestyle is ...

The article circulated last week, “The Digital Death Rattle of the American Middle Class: A Cautionary Tale,” really cranked-up the alarm about the possibility of the economic underpinnings of US society being knocked out by low cost information labor in countries around the world. I mean, death of the middle class? That’s the most dire and dour interpretation I’ve seen ...