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:
Here are a bunch of reactions:
Social Media Explorer (Jason Falls)
Gauravanomics (this post contains additional links to other reactions to the Fast Company article)
Conversation Agent – Valeria Maltoni
So, what do you think?
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.
@Lisa – thanks, I’ll add that to the list
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
@Valeria – added, thanks for stopping by!
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