Here is an interesting article that argues that 'mindsets' are more important than 'skillsets' in the current job market. 

http://www.babusinesslife.com/Tools/Features/the-mindset-revolution.html
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Check out this article in US News that discusses the role of geospatial technologies in today's society. 
http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2011/05/11/geospatial-technology-as-a-core-tool
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An article from Directions magazine, here is the summary:

"Last month Penn State University and Directions Media presented a webinar titled The New Geospatial Jobs and How to be Ready for Them (archived version). A total of 940 people registered for the event. We received more questions than could be answered. We asked the hosts to respond to them in two articles."

Here is the link to the article:  http://www.directionsmag.com/articles/geospatial-occupations-qa-part-two/139775
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In an attempt to reconstruct the network of Enlightenment correspondence that linked thinkers like Locke, Voltaire and Rousseau, historians are using today's technology to visually show these relationships.

To see the full article in NY times follow the link:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/16/digitally-mapping-the-republic-of-letters/?hp
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A selection of reading in GeoDesign - put out by ESRI, this collection of articles that discuss the emerging field of GeoDesign (the integration of GIS & design). 

To read:  http://www.esri.com/library/ebooks/geodesign.pdf
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Check out this article/interview in National Geographic with Jared Diamond. 

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/07/0706_050706_diamond.html
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A good article on how Google’s open-ended maps are embroiling the company in some of the world’s touchiest geopolitical disputes.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2010/1007.gravois.html
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December 17, 2009 (Des Plaines, IL) - Ten years after announcing that electronic copies of the URISA Journal would be made freely available to teachers and learners everywhere via the World Wide Web, the Journal’s electronic archives have become one of the richest collections of open educational resources in the geospatial field.

As of December 2009 there are 196 peer-reviewed articles in 40 issues of the URISA Journal freely available at http://www.urisa.org/journal_archives.

The Journal is one of only three journals listed by the Directory of Open Access Journals (http://www.doaj.org) under the keyword “gis,” and it is the only one to be ranked among 46 leading geographic information science (GIScience) journals by Caron and colleagues in 2008.

Caron and colleagues’ combined a Delphi study of 40 international experts and a quantitative comparison of journal citation rates to identify and rank leading periodicals in the GIScience field.

They ranked the URISA Journal 14th in relative importance among 46 periodicals. According to president Kathrine Cargo, “the sustained quality of the URISA Journal confirms the quality of our authors’ research, the dedication and skill of our editorial team, and the viability of open access publishing. URISA is proud to contribute these valuable resources to the benefit of the geospatial enterprise worldwide.”  

In 1998-99 Harlan Onsrud offered to serve as editor on the condition that the URISA Board of Directors agreed to publish open-access version the journal. Onsrud was concerned about escalating costs of academic journal subscriptions, and about scholars’ responsibility to “maximize dissemination of our works and our readership.” At the time, URISA President Joseph Ferreira stated that “while commercial publishers best make progress through exclusivity and control, the URISA Journal editors believe that science and new knowledge is best advanced through an intellectual environment of openness and freedom” (URISA 1999)

References
Caron, Claude, Stéphane Roche, Daniel Goyer and Annick Jaton (2008) GIScience Journals Ranking and Evaluation: An International Delphi Study. Transactions in GIS 12:3, 293-321.

Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (1999). URISA Journal Breaks New Ground. Press Release
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While this is a few years old, it is a very good profile of a woman, Erin Aigner, at the NYTimes using GIS to assist the journalists in their stories.  They discuss how the maps she creates sometimes drive the story.  This article is in the June 2007 ACSM Bulletin.

http://www.acsmcongress.org/bulletinonline/bull227/giscareer.pdf
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A great article, Demystifying the Persistent Ambiguity of GIS as "tool" versus "Science" written by Dawn Wright (OSU), Michael Goodchild, and James Procotor. 

The paper appears in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 87(2): 346-362, 1997.

Click here to read the article.
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