It's spread through the entire fabric of the US economy, from onboard maps in cars to devices that help farmers tend crops. NPR's Chris Arnold reports one information entrepreneur has found opportunity in crates of dead fish on ice. And it was 40,000 pounds, I think, was on there. Well, that's the idea of the hot list. Local fish wholesalers, like Roger Green, buy thousands of pounds of fish off the docks here.
Forklifts honk a warning as they carry the crates of iced fish to waiting trucks.
Green says the Internet site gives him a much longer list of prospective buyers than he's ever had before. In any business, you got to change if you're gonna stay alive, and Neil has certainly done that in the GoFish program he's got now on the Internet. We just signed up on that a few weeks ago, and it's opening up a whole new spectrum for us as far as customer base. People on the West Coast and in the Gulf area and, for that matter, in Europe. Neil Workman took to this Internet fish market was a long and unlikely one.