It was a publishing sensation, but was he right? Chris Anderson's book The Long Tail argued that the coming years would be the era of the niche product, rather than the blockbuster. Now a new paper by Anita Elberse in...

No not Policy Exchange but linked to that! The Centre For Cities is a think tank spun out from the IPPR. They operate in a niche - policy on cities in terms of governance and regeneration of cities. Its a niche but a very important one in terms of improving the performance of the UK and solving a lot of our most pressing social problems. They are also very good at it. They enjoy a very strong medi...

The news that Woolworths and MFI have gone into administration was bad news but hardly a surprise. Woolworths had struggled to either get critical mass or establish itself in a niche and as the famous business adage goes "get big, get niche or get out". The company had been struggling for some time and as the market tightened they were always likely to be hit first and hardest. Clearly my

Twitter users are growing by a factor of 10, so says web measurement firm, Hitwise. Not bad going for what was a niche, online tool with no clear use apart from giving other intrepid social media pioneers a running commentary on your day-to-day life - in 140 characters or fewer. But now the BBC, according to

"Springtime for Hitler": the ringtone.

Jonathon Porritt, environmental writer and campaigner complains of the silence on this issue and he’s right to. No one talks about it, and as soon as an obscure editorial in a niche publication like the BMJ pops up, the media hounds are onto it with their contrarian, supposedly anti-establishment drivel. But in good news, the

Needless to say it applies in the UK also. Jorge Cham writes one of the best niche cartoons out for University Graduate students - if you want to know what working in research is really like, go over and check out his work.

As shipments fall for big producers, the vignerons, who produce Champagne from their own grapes, are having the opposite experience.

I'm making some changes to the blog site. This is mainly to do with broadening the content of the site, to move further towards "escaping from the politics niche", but also to focus more on the upcoming election.

Editorial: Should the taxpayer rescue a niche manufacturer of posh cars? The question is bigger and more serious than it looks