How ideas spread and culture eventually changes
In The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell wrote about how an bar fight might grow. Everybody has their own “tipping point” for how many people have to be fighting to engage themselves in the fight.
Something similar is seen in this video, from the Sasquatch Music Festival 2009, where this one guy just needs to dance. [...]
Mapping out a constantly changing landscape
Now that is impossible, isn’t it?
20 years ago, we didn’t have the Internet we have today. The media landscape looked pretty much the same as it did 30 years ago or even 40 or 50 years ago. Big TV-networks had been big for some time, big radio stations had been big for quite a long [...]
Malcolm Gladwell at Pop!Tech
I am very happy my copy of Malcolm Gladwell’s new book Outliers is in the mail. I have been looking forward to his next book since Blink (and before that, since The Tipping Point). So, it was interesting to get a little “preview” of what it will contain from Pop!Tech, via Brand Autopsy:
@ Yahoo! [...]