Gladwell's Blog

I only just now ran across Malcomb Gladwell's blog.

Should be some interesting reading if you are a fan of his. The current discussion is centered on Freakonomics.

The Freakonomics book is quite popular I understand, I have not read it.

I am looking forward to seeing Malcome Gladwell in Boston at the WebmasterWorld conference in April. He is the keynote speaker and I finally made up my mind to go. Big decision for me as the expenses will be about twice what the New Orleans one was.

I really enjoyed Gladwell's Tipping Point and then Blink.

And Google throws a great party there ! I hope to get an invite to the Yahoo one as well since I am in the YPN beta program and doing pretty well in it. ...And I have never been to Boston and it is a business trip, after all.

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Anonymous said…
I read some of this. It's kind of overwhelming - the comments anyway. Also interesting that it appears to be mostly men, judging from the commenters' names. There also appears to be quite a bit of mental gymnastics and one-upmanship going on. I've read Freakonomics, but not Tipping Pt. or Blink. Is Malcom Australian?
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