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People tend to associate with others with whom they share various attributes (typically, socioeconomic and demographic). It would seem to follow that they also interact with people that share the same opinion on political and philosophical issues. Apparently, people only think their friends share their views. A recent paper by scholars working in Yahoo! Research [...]
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According to a newly released study, emotions such as happiness and sadness spread from person to person in much the same way that diseases spread from an epidemiological perspective. While the idea that social networks can influence behavior, health, and emotions, has been kicked around for some time the current study is the first to explicitly map [...]
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The concepts of “peer pressure” and “running with the wrong crowd” are far from new. For quite some time, people have explicitly or implicitly explained their or other people’s behavior by referencing the influence that one’s social circle can bring to bear. Nicholas Christakis is a leading researcher focusing on the ways in which the [...]
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Today’s Wall Street Journal includes an interesting article about the Wednesday 10 group–a network of (at the time) up and coming businessmen in New York that was formed in 1957. The group was the brainchild of former columnist William Safire, and the article coincides with the group’s first meeting since his passing. The rationale for [...]
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McKinsey’s Mary Kunz interviewed Mark Helprin and discussed various issues connected to his view that the “‘all free, all the time ethos’ of the Internet threatens to erode the creation of new knowledge and new art”. Helprin is a staunch skeptic of the creative and innovative potential of the Internet. In fact, he stakes out [...]
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Andy Oram over at O’Reilly Radar writes a really interesting piece on the work of Erving Goffman and how it relates to identity and the web: [Goffman's] fundamental contribution is how he slants his premise that we present a front in all our behavior before others. You have to understand that this posturing is real [...]
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Ana Anjdelic responded to my latest post with some very interesting points. She commented that some of my suggestions would significantly increase transaction costs, specifically information search costs incurred by firm. Ana notes that increasing transaction costs in this way contradicts (or runs logically counter to) Coase’s view of the firm. She writes: It’s true [...]
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Ana Andjelic and I have just started a discussion around how to best organize for innovation. (BTW, if you aren’t already a reader you should really check out Ana’s blog, i [love] marketing.) Rather than continue the conversation in the comments thread I thought it might be good to bring it over to the blog. [...]
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Christopher Penn discusses an interesting notion–the idea that people don’t actually know what their ideal world looks like. When we try to solve a problem, or consult with others to help them solve their problems, often time we are told to start by answering this question: In a perfect world, what would this process look [...]
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Nathan at FlowingData points to an application on Facebook that aims to measures happiness. The application seeks to calculate the “Gross National Happiness” (GNH) of the United States by analyzing the ratio of positive to negative words found in users’ status updates on a daily basis. It is an interesting project and certainly relates to [...]
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