Making progress each day

So I am trying to post this on a dial-up line in India. And missing the broadband speed back home – and thinking about progress. The long flights make you acutely aware of slow anything. I should have high-speed at my next destination in India.

I landed at Mumbai airport to find a spanking new Immigration area (in preparation for an Asian Development Bank meeting in the city later this week). Clear it in 5 minutes - Progress! I find a park with a jogging track where a few months ago was swamp. Complete with uniformed guards (with ties) whose job is to blow whistles at kids of all ages who cut across the well manicured lawns and bushes. It costs 5 Indian rupees (about US 11c) to get in – another sign of huge change in a country with a lot of socialized recreation. Progress.

So on this slow line I see a post by Phil Wainewright and see 2 commenters blow the whistle. One questions his grammar; the other his facts. I think about the typos I make on my blog (for some reason I keep wanting to call Sam Palmisano at IBM Sal - I used to know a Sal at IBM. And Don Valentine at Seqouia, Doug. He does have a partner Doug Leone) and how readers are kind enough to point them out. And why blogs in general have to make progress when it comes to proof reading.

Working now with 2 editors – Mary Ann Thompson at TechSpend and Richard Young for the monthly series I am doing for Real Finance, you realize the huge value of editors. I have worked with Mary Ann for several years and she can and does finish my incomplete sentences. Richard has a wicked sense of humor and spices up my stuff.  Us bloggers do not have the luxury of having someone edit our stuff  (other than our beloved readers)– but that is no excuse. We have to keep making progress.

That’s my 11c for the day, oops 5 Indian Rupees. I am jet lagged...enough progress!

Comments

[Manoj Ranaweera]

Vinnie, have you blogged or considered blogging about new emerging markets for IT outsourcing? When I started looking for a partner to develop, support and maintain ebdex Document Exchange, I first explored Indian companies and quickly came to the conclusion, there is a lot of them and it is difficult to identify the right partner for us without spending obscene amount of money.

Then I went to Sri Lanka. There are about 50 companies to choose from, and you can filter this down to about 5 to 10 companies fairly easily. On the downside, the labour rates are higher than Indian (in my experience).

It would be interesting to hear your thoughts on this issue, given that Eastern European countries are also hot on this issue.

[viinnie mirchandani]

good point. I find vendors (ISVs) much more willing to look at options like Sri Lanka, Israel, Vietnam. Corp America is a still more focused on scale and maturity ...but yes it is on my radar. I wrote about Brazil a few months ago.