Malcolm Gladwell is touring the UK to mark the publication of his new book, What The Dog Saw (2009) and last Monday I attended his Oxford show to witness first hand his extraordinary entertaining alchemy of story-telling and intuitive thinking.
A staff writer with the New Yorker magazine since 1996 Gladwell was in 2005 named one [...]
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Dale Carnegie of the iPod generation?
May 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Books, General, Marketing, Opinion
Blowing Your Own Trumpet
January 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Design, General, Marketing, Web Design
‘People talking about you is far more effective than talking about yourself.’
(- Seth Godin )
Seth Godin recently discussed this truism of the web in a post:
Boingboing’s ‘Cory and Mark both have terrific books out. And as co-editors on the world’s most popular blog, you’d think that they could use boingboing to sell a ton of [...]
Tags: Blogs·Books·Ideas·Life·Social Networking
Facebook Data Findings
December 30th, 2007 · No Comments · General, Social Network Site, Web Design
Several research projects being done on the social network site, Facebook, are described in an interesting article in the New York Times: On Facebook, Scholars Link Up With Data.
Some interesting findings include:
“Researchers learned that while people perceive someone who has a high number of friends as popular, attractive and self-confident, people who accumulate “too many” [...]
Tags: Blogs·Facebook·Personalisation·Privacy·Social Networking·Statistics