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The slightly breathless Trendwatching has a round-up of Minipreneurs.

Creating Passionate Users: You can out-spend or out-teach

Quick bit of market research. Anyone reading this who uses SdiDesk? Anyone? Anyone at all? Anyone actually reading this? Ah well … (sigh) If someone was reading this. And they did use SdiDesk. I’d ask these questions : What kind of info do you keep in it? What features do you find useful? What functions…

PocketMod version 0.3 beta

Bloody hell! Spammers have caught up with the wiki. WikiMinion is fighting them off, but this isn’t good.

Good post. Why Good Programmers Are Lazy and Dumb Basically following the three Perl virtues : laziness, impatience and hubris. Remember, these are all virtues as long as they’re not false laziness, false impatience, and false impatience 🙂

Ross Mayfield The disruption of open models of production is the greatest arbitrage opportunity in modern industry. Compare the RSS ecology story below.

Mark Bernstein on One Server Companies which takes inspiration from this discussion of the RSS “ecosystem”. It reminds me of Clay Shirky’s notion of situated software too.

Bruce Eckel asks What is Consulting? And there’s a link to a classic Joel Spolsky story too which sounds suspiciously like it’s about Ars Digita. When I worked at an Ars Digita inspired start-up a couple of years ago, I had a suggested solution for the problem Joel raises : take a lesson from how…

Also, what’s The Business Experiment?