The Emerging Market of Niche

The generically-named Chris Anderson has an article in Wired entitled, "The Long Tail." It's about how smaller niche markets have opened up and found audiences through Amazon.com and Netflix and Rhapsody, thus challenging the "hit" mentality that much of the entertainment industry has clubbed us with. Read it here. It's interesting to us old people.

The Sports Guy wrote a column last week that used the term "crowning achievement of irrelevance" referring to his upcoming 5000-word review of the first Miami Vice DVD. This means that he thinks that very few people care about that DVD, but also that Miami Vice is cheesy and has very little cultural value. If I were trying to pinpoint my "crowning achievement of irrelevance," a good place to start would be here. But I would never have achieved that had it not been for Netflix. See? This post did have a point after all. O ye of little faith.