Generally speaking, gaming can be a rather intense pastime, and while they can be a good way to relax, the Nintendo 3DS has formed
something of a cottage industry of games with a more calming, tranquil atmosphere.
Mosaic forgery Archaeoraptor is an unfortunate product
of the cottage industry of fakery spawned by the brisk trade in fossils from Liaoning.
As a matter of fact, defensive driving itself is becoming something
of a cottage industry in and of itself; spawning countless web sites and training courses as state insurance offices and providers all continue to place more emphasis on its importance.
Converting old Flash courses to HTML5 has even become a
bit of a cottage industry in the eLearning world as companies struggle to support newer devices.
Data visualization is something
of a cottage industry these days — witness Edward Tufte, an emeritus professor of political science at Yale University, who has built a mini empire founded on his well - received books, which bear titles like Visual Explanations; Envisioning Information; and The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.
Each of these cottage industries is small, but there are a lot of them.
Writing books about Warren Buffett is a bit
of a cottage industry, and one that is getting scarce for new ideas.