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Heat map of Seattle area real estate -- confirms what I already know: I'm in the ghetto! Our head cheerleader is doing alright though.
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3 FaversShareViewed: 10 TimesQuoted: Marketers spend a billion dollars a year targeting influentials. Duncan Watts says they're wasting their money.
In /The Tipping Point/, Malcolm Gladwell argues a tiny minority of unusually informed, persuasive, well-connected influentials drive trends. The idea sounds intuitive and compelling—we think we see it happening all the time—but it's wrong. Think about it: these charismatic individuals would need to drive the meme beyond two degrees of separation, through people they don't know.
Instead, trends take root when a sufficient number of open-minded adopters propagate the meme in chain reaction, depending more on prevailing culture than key opinion leaders.
Too much uninformed skepticism does our economy no good. This in part seems to be Rochester's problem. Even as a freshman in college, my friends and i noted how Rochester seemed years, even decades, behind in smart worthy trends.
Update: this Harvard Business School Review article is now hidden behind a paywall. At http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/hbsp/hbr/articles/article.jsp?ml_action=get-article&articleID=R0702A&ml_subscriber=true is a synopsis.
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1 FaverViewed: 39 TimesQuoted: It seems like this past weekend, the center of the Internet-imageboard 4chan and its members, who are famous for the creation of Rickrolling, Pedobear and for pwning Scientology – used a website containing leaked Facebook passwords of religious Christians to wreak havoc all over the social networking site. Like Gremlins hijacking a movie theater, Channers had many, many lulz taking over these Facebook accounts.
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1 FaverViewed: 1 TimeQuoted: Indeed, when it comes to Europe, most people imagine that it's the big countries such as France and Germany that set the direction for the European Union. But it turns out that it's really Ireland. By rejecting the EU's Lisbon treaty in a referendum in June, Irish voters have single-handedly changed the course of the European project. The treaty needs the support of all 27 EU member countries to come into effect; the Irish have probably killed it.
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