Corey A Cook
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virus: Malcolm Gladwell
« on: 2005-08-22 20:15:26 » |
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I would like to suggest two books for the reading list.
They are both by Malcolm Gladwell, a writer for the
New Yorker.
The first is called The Tipping Point and uses the
infection metaphore to describe cultural changes.
The other is called Blink (The Power of Thinking
Without Thinking) and describes some of the
techniques used to program ourselves to be able to
react correctly and quickly in a variety or situations.
Neither book ever uses the word meme, and Darwin
is only mentioned in passing, but together they lay
out some ideal ways of describing this thing that
we talk about every six months or so.
CA Cook
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Re:virus: Malcolm Gladwell
« Reply #1 on: 2005-08-27 11:59:23 » |
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i have read both. tipping point was his first and quite an interesting work. blink is his latest and i wasnt impressed. it is mostly a collection of his new yorker articles..which is available on his website anyways. no need to buy the book. i read nothing new in the book and consider it a waste of my money.
altho' i thoroughly enjoyed tipping point.
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Re:virus: Malcolm Gladwell
« Reply #2 on: 2005-09-12 18:16:48 » |
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Oh wow I don't even bother buying books anymore. I just read whatever crap the library buys and occasionally request something from Inter Library Loan.
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Re:virus: Malcolm Gladwell
« Reply #3 on: 2005-09-13 12:36:54 » |
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me too, and I'm not even a librarian
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Re:virus: Malcolm Gladwell
« Reply #4 on: 2005-09-23 20:52:35 » |
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I still like to collect books (meaning I buy them, not steal them from the library ;-)
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