Cousin Derek doesn’t blog?!? Say it ain’t so…

…Jeter updated his [mlb.com] journal four times in 2007, and Rodriguez once.

Jeter smiled when asked if he had thought about maintaining a true blog. “That’s too much for me to worry about,” said Jeter, who was in sixth grade when Hughes was born. Maybe, he [Phil Hughes] mused, there was a generation gap.

It would be hard to picture most players holding a contest for fans to guess a favorite quote from “The Office.” Hughes did, and more than 300 people replied before a reader named giambino0522 guessed correctly.

For the contest winner, Hughes sent a game-used, autographed ball from his victory in Game 3 of the division series. Hughes had two other balls from the game, so he apparently did not mind giving up a memento worth hundreds of dollars.

“The fans are very important to me,” Hughes said. “Without them, I wouldn’t have a job, basically. I try to give back as much as I can. It’s almost a no-brainer.”

Derek, you need to step up and get with the technology! Hook up with Twitter or something, do it from your cell phone… ’cause you’re just as old as my brother, and that’s not young in baseball! Those fans are fickle as well.

As for generation gap - meh!

Getting to the gut-check level of hard truth of whether all our TechComm lives will be forever changed - Is India (Outsourcing) Winning?

Recently I’ve been examining the outsourcing market in India. Part of this came out of my extremely detailed analysis of Adobe, however I also investigated innovation in India. One further study I recently did was analyzing the STC India earnings comparison between US / North American technical communicators and India-based technical communicators. 

J Schwan, Managing Partner of Solstice Consulting just returned from a meet and greet trip overseas to India.

I visited four different potential partners yesterday. One was a smaller startup of really smart software engineers, one was essentially a sweat shop (20 programmers packed in a 12×12 room, a very hot room) and the other two were large publicly traded companies.

I’m really glad I came because on paper, the first two firms looked the same and visiting their development center proved they were very, very different.

Here’s a sketchy SWOT analysis based on my research:

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