Two IS and informatics news items appeared in the last couple of days:
Steve Jobs is on leave at Apple again, and the fact that this concerns shareholders, customers, and investors illustrates the dual nature of IS.
Also, astroinformatics is in the news again as this article about Canada's astroinformatics data issues has been slashdotted.
Not all computer use in the sciences is about data management. Some of it is about computation, and the top 500 ranks the fastest computers in the world. Creating workflows and developing new applications in this environment is a problem that informaticists work with other scientists (physicists, biologists, and chemists) on.
I was saving this one for later in the semester, but the cover story on the Leo weekly this week is about LVL1, the Louisville area hackerspace, part of the maker movement.
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