Wednesday, May 04, 2005

Internet Cuts Need for Bike Messengers (AP). AP - Bicycle messengers once crowded downtown traffic to deliver court papers, business documents and blueprints. Today, only one such company and one lone courier pump along on any given workday in Maine's biggest city. [Yahoo! News: Technology] would be interesting to compare job gain/job loss from the bicycle messengers to today.  factoring in speed and the increased willingnes to send things fast, as well as the safety of communicating virtually vs physically delivering a message, I bet the overall impact, is well, pretty good. 7:47:23 PM    comment [] Outsourcing 'not delivering'- report [Edu_RSS] interesting report and stats on the failures of outsourcing from the employer's perspective.. newest idea is to just do non important things - - like the mail room or web hosting :-) lots of money in that, huh? Outsourcing 'not delivering'- report [Edu_RSS] interesting report and stats on the failures of outsourcing from the employer's perspective.. newest idea is to just do non important things - - like the mail room or web hosting :-) lots of money in that, huh? 7:29:02 PM    comment [] Outsourcing 'not delivering'- report [Edu_RSS] interesting report and stats on the failures of outsourcing from the employer's perspective.. newest idea is to just do non important things - - like the mail room or web hosting :-) lots of money in that, huh? 7:28:56 PM    comment []

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