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

All Things Digital

The Social Times

Gauravanomics (this post contains additional links to other reactions to the Fast Company article)

Logic + Emotion

Buzz Canuck

Conversation Agent - Valeria Maltoni

So, what do you think?

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6 Responses to “Links to posts about the Duncan Watts article in Fast Company”

Lisa Rousseau Says:
January 29th, 2008 at 3:44 pm

http://buzzcanuck.typepad.com/agentwildfire/2008/01/watts-is-he-tal.html

I haven’t gone through all the links yet. But I do think Seth summed it up pretty well.

brainadmin Says:
January 29th, 2008 at 8:12 pm

@Lisa - thanks, I’ll add that to the list

Valeria Maltoni Says:
January 29th, 2008 at 10:26 pm

I mixed it up a little, then again I often do look at more than one ideas to think about trends and what are doing about them http://www.conversationagent.com/2008/01/forget-influent.html

brainadmin Says:
January 30th, 2008 at 8:27 am

@Valeria - added, thanks for stopping by!

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