Darren at Problogger explores the cornering of information as a strategy for blog promotion and traffic.

The great thing is that because blogging is so global you don’t necessarily have to be a maven of some mega popular topic in order to be successful. Recently I’ve had contact with a number of bloggers that have come to dominate (in a nice way) the tiny niches that they write in and in doing so have become quite prominent.

His comments are open for folks to either "name a maven" or to toot their own horn about their special field of maven-ness.