While doing some surfing last night I happened across a post on Brand Noise, “The Power of Niche in a People Economy” (Link), to which I wanted to call attention. In particular I really enjoyed this bit at the very beginning:
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There’s a good – if long – article by Julian Dibbell, “The Life of the Chinese Gold Farmer” (Link – registration may be required), on The New York Times website today. It goes to some length describing a situation I’ve mentioned on this blog, and is related to something I posted on another one. Good Sunday reading.
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I’ve only been scanning the excellent liveblogging entries over on Virtual World News, but the closing entry contained something of particular interest. From that final entry covering the MIT Media Lab/IBM conference (Link), Linden Lab VP Joe Miller made the following comment: Continue reading →

After reading this comment over on Nussbaum’s blog (Link):

Just as corporations are discovering Second Life and MySpace, a big chunk of their customers are shifting to Facebook.

I couldn’t help but try to post a comment asking Nussbaum to explain how Facebook has an impact on Second Life. I’ve once again been censored (as has my trackback). But get a load of this exchange that didn’t get censored:
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Some of you might have noticed I’ve not had any urban vinyl toy posts in a while. I still surf through Vinyl Pulse and leave the occasional comment, but the truth is, there’s only so much that’s new and notable, afaic. I’m more interested in new niche production methods and business tie-ins than I am in just another cute toy. If all it’s got going for it is the look, it has to really impress me.

Which leads me to take-g toy’s wooden crafts (Link). These are so beautifully simple and straight forward it’s hard not to like them. And no nasty polyvinyl chlorides. That alone is worth our attention.

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