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Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

reading through the cottage industry

English answer:

small scale, loosely organized blog industry

Added to glossary by Mihaela Ghiuzeli
Mar 21, 2008 21:33
16 yrs ago
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English term

reading through the cottage industry

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Startups are brutal. Few succeed. And it's not unusual to see periodic chaos among those who do. Elon Musk, Tesla's chairman, has stated that the company needs to trim its sails toward producing cars and fulfilling orders, and not everybody's cut out for letting go of their baby, transmission reliable or not. A Tesla spokesman has also enumerated various personnel overlaps that needed inevitable paring. Let's hope that's all we're seeing because the Roadster is a cool automobile technically, a cooler automobile to drive, and an historic game-changer in our perception of battery-electric vehicles.
Finally, after reading through the cottage industry of blogs orbiting Tesla Motors, I'm amused to discover that Elon Musk's (wanted or unwanted) nickname is "Edison." So maybe my tongue-in-cheek speculation that the car might be better named "Tom" wasn't so far off! - Kim Reynolds, Technical Editor
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3 +4 small scale, loosely organized blog industry
4 small business run from home
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Mar 21, 2008 21:33: changed "Kudoz queue" from "In queue" to "Public"

Mar 24, 2008 18:13: Mihaela Ghiuzeli Created KOG entry

May 11, 2008 13:54: Mihaela Ghiuzeli changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/649832">Mihaela Ghiuzeli's</a> old entry - " reading through the cottage industry"" to ""small scale, loosely organized blog industry""

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small scale, loosely organized blog industry

as opposed to mainstream media, you are navigating through blogs that are not subject to the same scrutiny as mainstream media is; you try to put things together to get the "nugget of info"

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Note added at 9 mins (2008-03-21 21:42:46 GMT)
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http://www.thefreedictionary.com/cottage industry
Peer comment(s):
agree Jack Doughty
42 mins
Thank you. I am most flattered coming from somebody so experienced.
agree Gary D : small industry, mostly in reference to "home based" and this type of activity, but in recent years it also is used to discribe "new small limited market industry of any type" Martha Stewart used to have a cottage industry, now it is mainstream.
2 hrs
Thank you Gary. Good comment too.
agree Peter Skipp
11 hrs
Thank you Peter.
agree V_Nedkov
4 days
Thank you V_N.
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
22 hrs

small business run from home

cottage industry noun [C]
a small business run from home
(from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
Peer comment(s):
neutral Sheila Wilson : Of course you are correct, but I don't think these are the words the asker will want to use here
23 hrs
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