Hi Trevor, Joe, Don,

Thanks Don, that's a great story! I'm learning too how to spot the "hot opportunities" by seeing what people are being fascinated by....

Another way which others sometimes mention is to look at mailing lists, like you'd find in the "Standard Rate and Data Service", or SRDS (in the USA), or the "List of Lists" in the UK or in Australia. If there's a big list of people interested in a particular area, then you have a possible "hot" area. Another thing you can look at is figures of magazine subscriptions. If there are a lot of subscribers, there's clearly a lot of interest in the area the magazine covers....

An online equivalent could be looking at ezine subscriber numbers.... A couple of places you can find this kind of information online are....

http://www.freezineweb.com/

http://www.list-city.com/ezines.htm

Unfortunately, the info is sometimes a year or two out of date, though some of the listings are recent....

Hope that's useful, Trevor!

- Dien Rice