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Influence isn’t all-or-nothing

by Mathew on January 28, 2008 · View Comments

There’s lots of commentary today about my friend Clive Thompson’s piece in Fast Company magazine on researcher Duncan Watts, who argues that much of author Malcolm Gladwell’s book The Tipping Point just isn’t true — that is, the idea that there are “influencers” who can make products or services succeed or fail simply by adopting [...]

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Items that may one day be posts

by Mathew on July 26, 2006 · View Comments

The Motion Picture Association may have picked on the wrong guy when they sent a letter asking software developer Shawn Hogan to pay up for downloading movies. He happens to be a multi-millionaire, and plans to take the MPAA to court. Eric Rice of Hipcast makes the point that podcasts and other audio and video [...]

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