The Daily Dinar

 The Wall Street Journal has this excellent piece on the spread of outsourcing even to personal matters:

Sending work offshore has transformed the U.S. economy. Now, some families are tapping the same approach for personal tasks, getting them done for a fraction of what they’d cost at home. Taking your to-do list global.

I frequently outsource time-consuming and mundane personal tasks to overseas workers and it has paid dividends.  Firstly, it is almost always a lot cheaper and, secondly, it allows me to take advantage of the differences in timezone.  I’ve used the popular elance.com site to find all sorts of people and companies willing to take on some of the tasks and projects that would have otherwise wasted my time and money completing.  For example, I recently hired an Indian company to do research on the internet for me and manually collate a list of 500+ websites serving a particular niche.