"Book" Marked

I was tagged in J. Erik Potter’s blog (whom I didn’t know had one!)  answering questions about books – what you have, how many, etc etc.   Seemed interesting.

The Protocol: Answer 5 questions. Tag 5 booklovers.

The Questions:
1) How many books do you own?
2) What was the last book you read?
3) What was the last book you purchased?
4) What five books are most meaningful to you?
5) What is your most obscure favorite book? Or, favorite most obscure book?

My Answers:
1) Only about 70 or so.   Ive donated mega boxes full to libraries in both Ames and Simi Valley at various times of moving.

2) Tie between The Dip and The Four Hour Work Week

3) The Dip (see above)

4) Geez.   Mirror by Graham Masterton, The Eternity Brigade by Stephen Goldin, Kids in the Biz by Troy Rutter (I had to put it in…), How To Publish Your Non-Fiction Book, Othersyde by J. Michael Straczynski

5) Hm, now this is a hard one.  I would have to say The Eternity Brigade above.  I read it several times growing up, and then it was near impossible to find.  Now he has reprinted it both in print and digitally, so it is available again.   There are so many levels dealing with war that parallel things going on today even, plus the science fiction aspect.   It’s not a literary classic by any means, but always a good read.

So now I get to tag people?  How about…

Jennifer Nieland, Michael Burstein, Dan Wood, CC Chapman, and what the heck Wil Wheaton

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Just found – johnchow.com and timferris.com

I must have been living under a rock for the past several years because I never once heard or visited johnchow.com before yesterday. I had found his site as a link-of-a-link-of-a-link while reading the message forums at Tim Ferris’s fourhourworkweek.com site that is a companion to his successful book, The4 Hour Work Week.

As many of you who read this blog know, I have been stuck on how to a) get a popular blog and yes b) make money on the Internet -  for a while now. I have the technical knowledge, and devour different techniques when I read them in print, but I don’t seem to have one thing – the niche to end all niches.

I don’t consider myself a boring person, really, but when it comes to online marketing the advice is always the same: find a niche that excites you and run with it. But what if you don’t have a niche? Or maybe you don’t recognize your own niches?

John offers a free 59 page ebook that explains in real terms what it takes to go from 0 to making $10,000/mo or more blogging. But, there’s that niche thing again. I just don’t know what interests me. Besides online marketing / affiliate marketing (which is a “black niche” since everybody tries to do it) I really don’t know what else to blog about.

If anybody out there has some kind of niche profiler questionnaire, please let me know… perhaps it will jump start my brain cells a little.