What a slogan! And advice to live by, really. I've been trying to read The Tipping Point lately, which is difficult because Malcolm Gladwell really needs to stop naming fucking everything. His books are full of so much invented jargon ("Connectors need Stickiness to Glorp-Glap the Market Mommys into Shim-shamming The Tipping Point," etc.) it's really no different from a YA Fantasy novel. Last night I was reading about "Mavens" - people who compulsively share deals and product recommendations with everyone; they are the slightly crazy people who supply our networks with information. The editor of this site is obviously a Maven, though probably an especially crazy one. The point is, the guy who came up with "All The Muck That's Fit To Rake" is rolling in his grave right now.Anyway, it turns out Cyrus and Lautner are "waiting for the good moment," and don't actually have a project in mind. So it's nothing we have to worry about right now. Here's hoping they find "the perfect script that they desire to interpret" soon!
This isn't necessarily worse than anything you find on E!'s website, I guess.
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Hate to nitpick, but Malcolm Gladwell better not be trying to take credit for "maven." It is actually a Yiddish word meaning an expert, or someone who knows.
Oh, he mentions that. He sort of makes it sound like capital-M Maven is his coinage, but even that is an appropriation of "Market Maven" which he says is an old economist's term. But he does that thing where like, it sounds like term just sprang out of the ether, which maybe it did. It's not like "Six Degrees" and Stanley Milgram. "Mavens" vis-a-vis "The Law Of The Few" and "Connectors" is Gladwell's contribution to the field, which I think you will agree is a contribution of sort of dubious value. I've already read Clay Shirky's "Here Comes Everybody" and Duncan Watts's "Six Degrees," and so far "The Tipping Point" is just a rehash of all of that Network math stuff. I'm hoping it will add something new soon.
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