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While wandering around the 37signals space, I found this blog, Loudthinking by David Heinemeier Hansson, and came across this post.
So let me get this right. They think they make 10 times as much selling their books direct electronic in comparison with traditional ways. Go Grateful Dead. Go Arctic Monkeys.
Thin market, complex product, proves nothing, I [...]

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You can find it here. I saw it while reading something on TailRank that Judy Breck had posted via Smart Mobs, and just had to do it. And I scored 23. Which I can live with
And by going to the quiz I had a chance to see where Haystack had got to.
Four Pillars makes [...]

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I shall spend some time next week building out the foundation of the four pillars, which is comprised of platform independence, device agnosticism and opensource. Once that is established, I want to place the pillars in one further context, the construction industry: the role of the opensource movement, hardware and software vendors and “in-house IT”. [...]

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There are three big debates right now that will help shape or kill everything we care about.

What is the internet?
Who owns it and how do we pay for it?
What about the stuff that touches it, whatever it is, and how do we pay for that stuff?

I have taken part in many discussions on this and [...]

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Blogs are an opensource marketplace of ideas, as per Cluetrain.
Wherever I go physically, there are hidden biases that prevent the richness of diversity coming through; diversity in culture, in gender, in age, in background, whatever; diversity that enriches and improves what I experience and learn.
I can prevent these biases from existing in cyberspace. But to [...]

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