Inveterate dabbler in business, travel, gadgets & life
Here is a neat way of working out what each of the founders should get when starting up a company although how it works when no one is ‘commited’ (Bacon & egg story) I’m not sure. Interesting to know how this fits in with Philips Equity fingerprint ideaCutting Up the Founder’s Pie
Just for Nick or Tim a great use for that redundant sledge hammer – get typing. Would be brilliant at the fair – see who can type The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog Boing Boing: Sledgehammer keyboard
Two really excellent books on what is involved with blogging, both free, and very readable.
Seth Godwin’s is really good (a 26page pdf download for the paper junkies). Interestingly he has given up publishing ‘real’ books due to the inordinate time delays from writing to it getting on the shelves.
Also a great book (slightly more technical) from Reporters without borders called Handbook for bloggers and cyber-dissidents which is slightly more technical but still very good. This is the organisation that Julien Payne works for. Julien is appearing on Radio5 live this Sunday at 10.30 with Suw Charman, Saira Khan and myself!
Article on the growth of blogging RSS feeds and social software (yep – all the stuff I’m interested in) I like this quote “Technology has given consumers an option to tune businesses out, and tune each other in, said Forrester research director Chris Charron in a statement. On the flip side, technology has given businesses an opportunity to gain greater customer insights at a lower cost.” So it really is a win win situation
