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The debate about the benefit vs. problems of offshoring IT continues. A report from a consultant at Deloitte Consulting says offshoring is good because it will free dollars up for R&D and that will result in better jobs overall. And the President apparently made a remark during Labor Day to the effect that offshoring has something to do with not ...

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.

A quick way to keep up with emerging science is EurekAlert. Each day the site lists breaking news in science in synopsis form. A quick 10 minutes keeps you on top. It also contains links for further information.

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 ...