If you are several people, working on several projects that support or seek to produce structure to fuzzy goals, are you a spamer, as well. You may look like it, at least to a singular outlier.

Several months ago, my interests overlapped with those of someone who had been asked to investigate the funding of a single person business that has lived off an unlikely funding source. Different, but not so different. The difference is the reason, not the method. Method is simple. Ask a focused group, focusing questions. Search for alternates to the first batch. Rinse, repeat as necessary. Meaning until time, money, or interest expire.

But the odd thing, as we are ending the data collection, in the expand your reach finale, a person of peripheral influence thinks us a spamer… or phisher, neither of course would be accurate words for what he thinks is happening.

And in another month the good folks at a MEMS-based sensor manufacturer will be told the results. Say hello to the internet and the very small village of italian breakfasts.