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Don't ask Web 2.0 (TM) evangelist Chris Messina about his business plan.

I didn't think that I'd come to resent the question "What's your business model?" [...] While a relevant question with the appropriate disclosure of intent [...], too often it's used as a yardstick for measuring whether someone is worth talking to, if at all — an unfortunate vestige of the old capitalist elite.

"The old capitalist elite." Is he going by the Party History Book now?

Wait, actually, what's Chris's business model for what? He quit working for the browser makers at Flock, his position with development company Adaptive Path doesn't earn a mention on the relevant web page, and his client Mozes is doomed. Is this boy the incarnation of built-to-flip?

What's your community model? [Chris Messina]