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Gladwells Stickiness Problem
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Authority: 161
The aughts been a good decade for Malcolm Gladwell. The reigning king of urban intellectuals has never not had a book among the New York Times s top 10 bestsellers since his first book, The Tipping Point , debuted in 2000. (Currently, he has four .) With so much success, of course, invariably come brickbats. ...1 week ago -
The Social Media Vacuum
The Relationship Economy...... —
Authority: 129
The social web is the strongest vacuum on the planet sucking everyone into being on-line for everything. Now the web will increase its pull off-line. Steve Rubel , writes in Forbes: What To Watch In 2010: Social TV “ The Web is changing before our eyes. Traffic to almost every major media and portal site has ...1 week ago -
"Anathematization of the world is not an adequate response to the world."
mills —
Authority: 546
“Anathematization of the world is not an adequate response to the world.” - Donald Barthelme, quoted by Falling and Laughing (who had an additional political note, as do I). I have many reasons for not cursing the world; I even agree that “the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards ...1 week ago -
QUICK Hits
The Quick and the Ed —
Authority: 572
Who owns what is taught in college and university classrooms? Steven Pinker and Greg Mankiw butt heads. (The Boston Globe) What does Joel Klein think about Michelle Rhee and assigning letter grades to public schools? (The Washington Post) Where can you find the ULTIMATE Quick Hit? Here are 50 education ...1 week ago -
Radical Evolution, Part 2
New World Order University Forum —
Authority: 119
Review of Joel Garreau, Radical Evolution, New York: Doubleday, 2004. Opposition to DARPA’s Planned Future Henry David Thoreau warned that men have become tools of their tools, but this warning hasn’t stopped anything. Thousands of sci fi movies showing the controllers controlling the masses haven’t ...1 week ago -
Steven Pinker Speaks at Harvard Law School
The Situationist —
Authority: 499
From HLS in Focus (describing the new student group working wit h the Project on Law and Mind Sciences (PLMS) at Harvard Law School and the fascinating talk that Stephen Pinker recently gave there). * * * “SALMS” is a recently formed group whose acronym stands for: Student Association for Law and Mind ...2 weeks ago -
The Future of Photography Books (discussion)
DARIUS HIMES —
Authority: 407
The Premise: A Crowd Sourced Blog Posting About Photography Book Publishing Andy Adams, the creative juice behind the online magazine Flak Photo recently contacted me about a “crowd-sourced” blog posting relating to photobooks, in conjunction with Resolve , the Livebooks blog. Was I game in posting something ...2 weeks ago -
The Future of Photography Books (discussion)
DARIUS HIMES —
Authority: 407
The Premise: A Crowd Sourced Blog Posting About Photography Book Publishing Andy Adams, the creative juice behind the online magazine Flak Photo recently contacted me about a “crowd-sourced” blog posting relating to photobooks, in conjunction with Resolve , the Livebooks blog. Was I game in posting something ...2 weeks ago -
Consciousness-Edge
FreThink —
Authority: 99
Image via Wikipedia There’s an interesting write-up and video at Edge on the nature of consciousness . From the introduction: On October 17, Edge organized a Reality Club meeting at The Hotel Ritz in Paris to allow neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene to present his new theory on how consciousness arises in ...3 weeks ago
