Business Reads for the Weekend

So its a great time to be an entrepreneur with cheap hardware, free software infrastructures, a global workforce and search engine marketing from Bnoopy. HOWTO: Do podcasting and video blogging using iTunes. I wonder does managing your board of directors come under the HOWTO category ? Another good article on bootstrapping your tech company and one on managing acquisitions from a corporate development perspective.

In light of recent US developments here's an article called "Piracy is Good? How Battlestar Galactica Killed Broadcast TV" and the related piece called "The Swarm Manifesto". And a nice one to finish called "Overzealous Lawyers Beware: Today's Sites Are Fighting Back" on the topic of how online website who are being hit with cease and desist letters are not simply playing dead in the case of the demands made in these letters.