Another Niche Filled in Libraryland

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Social reading -- A niche to be filled?

Social reading -- A niche to be filled? 09/11/2004 08:54 AM
There's a niche in the blogging/media ecosystem I hope someone fills. Aggregators are wonderful, but I find using them makes me as lonely as a night watchman making his rounds. So, between the solipsism of aggregators and the impersonalism of mainstream newspapers, I'd like a site where my friends and I can read stuff together. We suggest blogs and sites, and the aggregator surfaces the hot posts based on clever metrics and heuristics (mumble mumble handwaving). And we get to comment and annotate for one another. That last point is important because I find that I often don't leave comments...

Filled with Phlegm

Filled with Phlegm 03/20/2003 05:31 PM
I planned on spending most of the afternoon searching for open access points in my neighborhood. Mother nature decided to intervene; my sinuses have been draining down the back of my throat for the better part of two days, completely nullifying my sense of taste. I tried half a spoonful of wasabi, but the hit only lasted for a few seconds. Nothing's gonna wear down this mucus blanket but time. For dinner, I plan on having some Halls (with mentho-lyptus). They have Advanced Vapor Action, ya know? Yeah, I know it's nothing more than candy - but the minty flavor is keeping me from going hoarse. I plan on popping a Ricola or two for dessert. Maybe even a can of seltzer water to wash it all down? I really don't wanna go to bed with Nyquil coating my tongue for the third night in a row, though. That stuff always knocks me out; it's a capful of green, liquid death. But I don't blame Vicks. Oh, no... I blame it on the rain that was falling, falling. Some would say that the chemicals they used on my hair pushed me over the edge. Judge for yourself. Thanks again to everybody who provided a mirror for the video!...

Shelf filled with ivy

Shelf filled with ivy 04/13/2004 01:50 AM
This living shelf from Mosley meets Wilcox is made of transparent plastic with ivy growing in it. Link (via Gizmodo)

. . .Rip apart their straw-filled sacks
. . .

. . .Rip apart their straw-filled sacks
. . . 07/30/2004 10:13 AM
Help the scarecrows scare the crows in this beautifully done Flash game: A Murder of Scarecrows.

US small biz filled with optimism

US small biz filled with optimism 05/14/2004 09:01 AM
Blue skies ahead, survey claims

Kreme-Filled Earnings

Kreme-Filled Earnings 08/23/2004 08:54 AM
Krispy Kreme shareholders hope for a break from the badness in this week's earnings report.

A fun (yet testosterone filled) evening

A fun (yet testosterone filled) evening 07/08/2004 10:14 PM
I like cooking for friends. Even if the friends drag me out to the Finnish summer night to celebrate afterwards. But there was still something that nearly (but only nearly) made me sad this evening.

I don't really go out much these days. It never was really my thing, you know. But for the past week or so, I've felt rather happy and willing to party, so I was easy prey for beautiful ladies, who wanted to dance and party with me. So we danced, and talked, and drank, and had fun. When the inevitable and dreaded no-more drinks sign arrived, we stood next to the dance floor, feeling generally good. Then a man, taller and more handsome than me, approached us.

"You know", he says to me, "you are far too fat."

For a second, I am speechless. Then I just squeeze the two lovely ladies next to me closer and say firmly: "Yeah, I know. But it works for me." And grin heavily.

"You should really lose some weight", the man continues and turns away.

I let the smile of victory to spread on my face. The short manly fight for power has ended in me (us) winning - something that rarely happens. It feels good, in some primitive sort of way. His words cannot really hurt me: I know what I am and who I am, and that cannot be taken away from me with mere words. Especially with the words of a drunken nobody. From his simplistic (and probably very drunken) point of view I had two women, and he had none. So the only thing he could do was to try and hurt me somehow.

So bloody sad.

Red Sox Top Yanks in Flareup-Filled Game
(AP)

Red Sox Top Yanks in Flareup-Filled Game
(AP) 09/26/2004 04:56 PM
AP - Curt Schilling allowed one hit in seven innings and Boston battered Kevin Brown in his return from a broken hand, beating the New York Yankees 11-4 Sunday in another flareup-filled game between the rivals.

Sarin-Filled Munitions in Iraq Worry
U.S. (AP)

Sarin-Filled Munitions in Iraq Worry
U.S. (AP) 05/17/2004 11:44 AM
AP - U.S. officials said Monday they are concerned that other sarin-filled munitions may still exist in Iraq — and may not be well-marked — after evidence indicated a roadside shell that exploded contained the nerve agent.

Seething City Filled With Dread
(washingtonpost.com)

Seething City Filled With Dread
(washingtonpost.com) 04/10/2004 10:10 AM
washingtonpost.com - BAGHDAD, April 9 -- The family of Firas Ismail stood anxiously around the corner from Firdaus Square, a site made historic by the televised images of Saddam Hussein's bronze statue crashing to the ground a year ago Friday. Almost in unison, family members flailed their arms as Firas approached. Then they shouted in desperation. "Get back!" they yelled. "Get back!"

Bush's iPod filled with infringing
goodness

Bush's iPod filled with infringing
goodness 04/13/2005 11:50 AM
Cory Doctorow: President Bush has a treasured iPod full of songs that were decanted into it by a media strategist. This makes him: a downloader, an INDUCEr, a Darknet user and an infringer. Who'd a figgered the prez for a copyfighter?

The president also has an eclectic mix of songs downloaded into his iPod from Mark McKinnon, a biking buddy and his chief media strategist in the 2004 campaign. Among them are "Circle Back" by John Hiatt, "(You're So Square) Baby, I Don't Care" by Joni Mitchell and "My Sharona," the 1970s song by The Knack that Joe Levy, a deputy managing editor in charge of music coverage at Rolling Stone, cheerfully branded "suggestive if not outright filthy" in an interview last week.

Link (Thanks, Jason)

Update: To forestall more email on this subject: please read the quotation from the article reproduced above, with special attention to the boldfaced section. While the article states that Bush has a staffer load his iPod from the iTunes Music Store, it also says that he has his friend download music to it from his personal collection. The former, obviously, is not particularly radical, but the latter is exactly the kind of behavior the music industry characterizes as theft.

Report: 3 Panthers Filled Steroid
Scripts (AP)

Report: 3 Panthers Filled Steroid
Scripts (AP) 03/29/2005 05:47 PM
AP - Carolina Panthers Todd Sauerbrun and Jeff Mitchell and former player Todd Steussie had steroid prescriptions filled by a West Columbia, S.C., doctor now under investigation by federal authorities, according to "60 Minutes Wednesday" report.

CES 2005 Kicks Off A New Year Filled
With High Tech

CES 2005 Kicks Off A New Year Filled
With High Tech 12/31/2004 04:54 PM
Information Week Dec 31 2004 7:31PM GMT

Liquid-filled chips cool like
mini-fridges

Liquid-filled chips cool like
mini-fridges 04/18/2005 10:03 AM
CNET News.com Apr 18 2005 2:13PM GMT

"ABC13.com: Mystery surrounds 70 pairs
of shoes filled with bu..."

"ABC13.com: Mystery surrounds 70 pairs
of shoes filled with bu..." 11/11/2003 09:14 PM

Device Drivers Filled with Flaws,
Threaten Security

Device Drivers Filled with Flaws,
Threaten Security 06/05/2005 11:29 PM

It's filled with frustration and
bitterness, but then so am I toward
Nader voters, so I'm glad he's saying it

It's filled with frustration and
bitterness, but then so am I toward
Nader voters, so I'm glad he's saying it 03/16/2003 09:54 AM
Salon.com An open letter to Ralph Nader voters

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Helium-filled airships eyed as spying
tool

Helium-filled airships eyed as spying
tool 04/02/2005 09:20 AM
Chicago Tribune Apr 2 2005 12:31PM GMT

Niche out!

Niche out! 03/22/2005 03:24 PM
Doc's right.  People that buy or sell on the long tail shouldn't be considered consumers.  To prove a point, the long tail members I describe aren't passive, rather, they are in the driver's seat of the new distribution.  States and their passive consumers (of political goods) are the ones at risk.

Have a merry, sex and gadget filled
hyper-commercialized Japanese Christmas

Have a merry, sex and gadget filled
hyper-commercialized Japanese Christmas 12/26/2003 06:36 AM
japanese

jmintelligence.co.jp/trends/trends_2003_4q.html
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"the bombshell that US forces have found
more shells filled with sarin and
mustard gas"

"the bombshell that US forces have found
more shells filled with sarin and
mustard gas" 06/25/2004 03:22 PM

CES 2005 Kicks Off A New Year Filled
With High Tech (TechWeb)

CES 2005 Kicks Off A New Year Filled
With High Tech (TechWeb) 01/01/2005 06:32 AM
TechWeb - The annual convention, held in Las Vegas Jan. 6-9, will showcase new gaming and telematics products, mobile and wireless technologies, home networking, innovative electronics, and more.

"Have a merry, sex and gadget filled
hyper-commercialized Japanese
Christmas."

"Have a merry, sex and gadget filled
hyper-commercialized Japanese
Christmas." 12/26/2003 02:57 PM

Losing a Niche

Losing a Niche 06/17/2005 07:16 PM

Popular Science magazine gives us the following five things You Didn’t Know You Could Do with RSS:

1. “Package Deliveries
2. Library Books
   “ Avoid late fees and fruitless trips to the library with ELF (libraryelf.com), which generates a feed to inform you when books you've requested are available at your local branch (including a link to operating hours) and when your checked-out books are almost due.”
3. Local Weather
4. TV Listings
5. Yourself” [via del.icio.us/merlinmann/ 43folders]

I love the ELF and even subscribe to the service myself, but how does it make your privacy-loving, patron-protecting, librarian self feel that a company in Canada is providing this service that gets highlighted in PopSci instead of you?

Identifying your Niche

Identifying your Niche 05/03/2004 07:21 PM
WebDevInfo May 3 2004 10:45PM GMT

Voice Over Wi-Fi a Niche App

Voice Over Wi-Fi a Niche App 11/11/2003 03:11 PM
A There is a lot of talk and some confusion around the value of voice over Wi-Fi: It will take some time for the market to figure out how extensively it should be used. I think voice over Wi-Fi can be really useful to certain workers, but the current products have so many shortcomings that a company must have enough of those workers and be able to benefit enough to suffer through the headaches. Voice over Wi-Fi will become a routine service only if the products improve significantly....

ABC13.com: Mystery surrounds 70 pairs of
shoes filled with butter in woods

ABC13.com: Mystery surrounds 70 pairs of
shoes filled with butter in woods 11/11/2003 07:06 AM
Mystery surrounds 70 pairs of shoes filled with butter in woods .. well, okay, actually it WAS butter

abclocal.go.com/ktrk/news/bizarre/101003_APsn_butter.html
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Thieves Make Clean Getaway with
Soap-Filled Truck (Reuters)

Thieves Make Clean Getaway with
Soap-Filled Truck (Reuters) 06/22/2004 10:45 AM
Reuters - German police said on Tuesday they were searching for thieves who made a clean getaway after stealing washing powder worth 75,000 euros ($90,710) from a trailer in the western town of Muelheim.

Ultra-niche marketing

Ultra-niche marketing 12/24/2004 01:06 PM
TrackCap.com trackpoint.com sells nothing but the nibs, nubbins, caps or whatever you call them for the IBM ThinkPad Trackpoint - you know, the little sticky-uppy thing between the G and H on Thinkpads. $10 for 2, so maybe they're doing ok, especially since you can get 6 for $10 from IBM. (Shipping is free at both places.) Trackpoint.com also sell screws for the IBM Ultrabay at a buck each, so apparently they're branching out. Radical....

Standing in the Niche, Trying to Hold
Your Own

Standing in the Niche, Trying to Hold
Your Own 04/14/2004 10:28 PM
Although the prospect of battling Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Gateway might intimidate some boutique computer makers, Velocity Micro says it welcomes the challenge.

Niche Publishing - Engadget

Niche Publishing - Engadget 03/06/2004 01:59 AM

Niche publishing really isn't just for Nick Denton anymore... Peter Rojas, the original blogger behind Gizmodo has broken out of that gig to start Engadget... a competitor to Gizmodo.

Denton still has a leg up (first mover advantage we used to call it) on individuals launching one or two focused sites on their own, as he can aggregate his entire Gawker media property audiences if he wants to for an advertiser, or he can sell the advertising piecemeal... but, folks like Rojas can probably make enough money off their sites short-term to support themselves, and long term to build a living that they enjoy.

Best of luck Peter...

XML-Deviant: XQuery's Niche

XML-Deviant: XQuery's Niche 12/29/2004 08:49 PM
XQuery has been much hyped, but is it sufficiently different from XSLT to be successful? Edd Dumbill follows a debate looking for XQuery's niche.

"Glenn Reynolds goes on a bit more on
the subject and how it relates to the
artillery shell filled with Sarin gas
today."

"Glenn Reynolds goes on a bit more on
the subject and how it relates to the
artillery shell filled with Sarin gas
today." 05/19/2004 03:02 AM

EBay Spawns Niche Market

EBay Spawns Niche Market 03/19/2005 03:09 AM
Who says that innovation off the Web is dead? It turns out that eBay has given birth to a neat little niche market that allows people to drop off their stuff to a brick and mortar environment. OK, the idea is sound for now. But is it anywhere near as recession proof as eBay itself?…

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Morse buys niche consultancy biz

Morse buys niche consultancy biz 04/21/2004 06:18 AM
'De-risking projects'

Rescuing XSLT from Niche Status

Rescuing XSLT from Niche Status 10/30/2002 12:50 AM
XSLT is one of the most exciting technologies to come out of the XML family. Unfortunately, its incredible power and associated complexity can be overwhelming to new users preventing many from experimenting with it or causing them to quickly give up in disgust. In fact, unless the method of teaching and the common style of use for XSLT is radically changed to make it more accessible, XSLT will be relegated to niche status like SGML and other powerful technologies. -- David Jacobs

"zeldman.543jh"

Making Microsoft a niche player

Making Microsoft a niche player 08/30/2004 06:46 AM
Novell engineer and manager Allison Singh recently predicted in an Africa-based tectonic magazine article that Windows will become a niche operating system, replaced by Linux as the new standard. A gestalt of recent trends, events, and stories should tell you that this prediction is right on the money. A gestalt, by the way, is a perception or conclusion that goes beyond the sum of its parts. Here are three of the many parts that comprise the gestalt.

21 Hot Niche Minisite Profit Ideas

21 Hot Niche Minisite Profit Ideas 05/12/2004 05:18 PM
WebDevInfo May 12 2004 8:18PM GMT

niche appeal of the bl0gging business

niche appeal of the bl0gging business 01/06/2005 02:39 PM
Financial Times on Blog Advertising .. another article about blog ads .. weblogs as businesses

news.ft.com/cms/s/13736ec8-5df5-11d9-ac01-00000e2511c8.ht ml
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