Kudos go to Chad Fowler for his excellent book My Job Went To India. I urge everyone working as a software professional to read this book, even without having any idea of going offshore. He offers 52 Ways to Save Your Job, all of them pragmatic, full of anecdotes, and fun to read. It will definitely change the way I'm approaching my job and serves as a perfect companion to the wonderful classic The Pragmatic Programmer, another must-read which should be readily available on everybody's bookshelf.

I just came across tip #37 - Let Your Voice Be Heard: ... Start on the Web ... Now open your own weblog ... the most critical tip of all is to start sooner than you think you're ready.

OK, so here we are ...