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Canada, the Closer Country for Outsourcing Work. Canada's stability, proximity and cultural similarity to the U.S. tend to attract higher-value, more sophisticated outsourcing work than countries like India. By IAN AUSTEN. [NYT > Technology]

Selecting 5 KM books. A posting at the knowledgeboard gives a list of 42 books that anyone starting in KM may find useful. Well 42 is a little too many for starters, so here is my list of 5 and some rationale for the choices: * Deep smarts A new book (2005) from Dorothy Leonard… Continue reading Selecting 5 KM books

Affordable and Essential Christmas Gift Ideas for the Computer Geeks. A list of considerably affordable (most under $30) and indispensable Christmas gift ideas that all techies and computer geeks will appreciate. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]

How to Sell Your Boss. Selling your boss is critical to your success. If you can’t get your boss’s approval when you need it, you are not going to go very far in your career.As the president of a company, I spend a good deal of time listening to proposals. Those doing the pitching usually… Continue reading How to Sell Your Boss

Entrepreneurs: what not to do. Entrepreneur.com “What not to do.” A seasoned entrepreneur reveals the 17 most common mistakes startups make and how to avoid them — plus the five things you MUST do to ensure success. [Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]

FoxPro gets nice writeup on DevX. DevX: Visual FoxPro 9.0: Still Here, Still Relevant. Ken Levy gave me a demo of this last week. It's a very impressive tool. Has visual inheritance down to the button level where Visual Studio only has inheritance down to the form level. Among other things. Someday I'll tell you… Continue reading FoxPro gets nice writeup on DevX

IT Conversations is looking for a business model. WebTalkRadio discusses IT Conversations business model dilemma (Doug Kaye is asking his listeners for feedback about how to keep it all going). I am a HUGE fan of Doug's. His stuff is first rate. I don't have any good answers for him either. It's hard to get… Continue reading IT Conversations is looking for a business model

Cool “blox” for your blog. Laszlo is doing really interesting stuff for blogs. Instead of doing an entire system like Blogger or TypePad they are making little “blox” that you put on your blog's sidebar. They can be a photo block, a sound block, a link block, or a Weather block. Hey, where's the search… Continue reading Cool “blox” for your blog

U.K. government hit with another large computer failure. As many as 80,000 civil servants at the U.K.'s Department of Work and Pensions had to deal with what is being described as the biggest computer crash in government history on Monday. [Computerworld News] [Privacy Digest: Privacy News (Civil Rights, Encryption, Free Speech, Cryptography)]

how to manage smart people, not rocket science. Not quite on-topic but definitely an article I wish every boss I ever worked with had read: How to manage smart people. The following phrase is one of my favorite tools as a manager: “What do you need from me in order to kick ass on this… Continue reading how to manage smart people, not rocket science