Dan Wood is co-owner of Karelia Software, creating programs for the Macintosh computer. He is the father of two kids, lives in the Bay Area of California USA, and prefers bicycles to cars. This site is his weblog, which mostly covers geeky topics like Macs and Mac Programming.
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Yesterday, at our local bookstore, I picked up a copy of Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Difference, by Malcolm Gladwell. I almost completely devoured it last night. A really interesting read; it's a little bit psychology, sociology, marketing, history, and though not really stated explicitly, chaos theory. I like the discussion of the three types of people who help get ideas to spread: the Connector, somebody who knows a lot of people, even weakly (The people on the social networks with the super high numbers are those kind of people); the Maven, the person who just loves to be an expert at stuff and share that information with others; and the Salesmanperson, who has this innate ability to convince people of just about anything. Anybody with a weblog is probably at least a little bit of one or more of these categories!
Joe Bob sez check it out.