Links to posts about the Duncan Watts article in Fast Company

January 29th. 2008, 2:07pm

There’s a new Fast Company article out by Clive Thompson with an interview of Duncan Watts, “a network-theory scientist who recently took a sabbatical from Columbia University and is now working for Yahoo”. Watts has done research that seems, on the surface, to contradict some of Malcolm Gladwell’s ideas in The Tipping Point about the nature and power of influencers, the people who set trends or spread ideas through various means.

Fascinating stuff. I’m trying to track the conversations and I’ll be updating this post over time.

Here’s the Fast Company article:

Is the Tipping Point Toast?

Here are a bunch of reactions:

Social Media Explorer (Jason Falls)

Smooth Span

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