The 5 Most Shocking Things About the ChoicePoint Debacle

May 9, 2005

Via David Fraser, a troubling behind the scenes look from CSO Magazine at the ChoicePoint disclosure debacle.

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More Notes From “The World is Flat”

May 9, 2005

Andy Havens has an extensive post on his thoughts mid-stream through Tom Friedman’s new book.

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Adam Smith on Legal Outsourcing

May 8, 2005

Bruce MacEwen has posted on the article I blogged recently about legal outsourcing to India.

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More on Medical Outsourcing

May 8, 2005

The National Post has an article in this Saturday’s edition about medtourism to India. I’ve blogged this a few times, most recently here. The article is a nicely detailed piece on the development of medical offshoring in India, and the experiences of one B.C. man, in search of a new knee, in particular. Two quotes […]

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WiFi over EvDO

May 8, 2005

Andy Abramson has a short post on his experience Skype-ing over EvDO. Result: it’s all good.

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Education in a Flat World

May 8, 2005

Apropos of my recent post on Tom Friedman’s new book, his Friday column looks more closely at the education aspect of Globalization. Dan Gillmor writes on education today as well, wondering about the impact that the resurgence of interest in Kansas (and elsewhere in the US) on teaching Creationism – honestly, “intelligent design”??? Obviously, none […]

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More on Philadelphia’s MuniWiFi

May 7, 2005

Shawn McCarthy writes today in the Globe on Philadelphia’s plunge into muniwifi. Why is it that only users, journalists and geeks can see the wisdom of this? Where are the telcos – other than lobbying to shut down muniwifi and busy protecting their cellular franchises – on creating these networks?

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Behind the Scenes of Legal Outsourcing

May 7, 2005

Via The E-LawLibrary Weblog, Legal Affairs has an interesting article that goes behind the scenes on legal outsourcing. Some quotes that caught my eye in particular: With the work being done in India becoming more sophisticated, some American attorneys are skeptical of American firms that use outsourced legal services. “I think a lawyer has a […]

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Risk (Mis)Management at Comair

May 7, 2005

CIO Magazine has a fascinating article looking behind the scenes of the Comair systems meltdown fiasco, and digging in to the IT risk management decisions the company didn’t make in the years leading up to it.

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Using Wikis to Organize Your Advisors

May 6, 2005

Here’s a very cool article on Business Week Online describing Intellisync’s use of wikis to integrate the contribution of several different PR agencies.

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This is What Happens When the World is Flat

May 5, 2005

Tom Friedman’s new book, The World is Flat, has really shaken me, and I haven’t read it yet. I read the excerpt in a recent Sunday Times and got the gist (the book is on order). Publisher’s Weekly (from Amazon.com) describes the book this way: Before 9/11, New York Times columnist Friedman was best known […]

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Technology Use Policies and Celphones

May 5, 2005

Michael Fitzgibbon linked some time ago to an article by Ogletree Deakins about employer liability for loss caused as a result of celphone misuse – the car accident caused by a distracted driver is a good example – and I’m only getting around to pointing to it now. It’s a useful article and has some […]

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