Have you read “The Tipping Point”? Many of us have. The growth of sales of the book itself is an example of the idea it attempts to illustrate: ideas can spread like wildfire when they capture a zeitgeist or purport to solve a common problem. It’s a...
Perhaps the greatest tragedy of the whole sniper-in-Washington killing spree (aside from all of those messy deaths, of course) is the fact that, since there are so few clues left by the sniper, it’s been difficult for the media in the US to develop and market a...
Perhaps the greatest tragedy of the whole sniper-in-Washington killing spree (aside from all of those messy deaths, of course) is the fact that, since there are so few clues left by the sniper, it’s been difficult for the media in the US to develop and market a...
I have said this before. The problem is that web communities are too expansive, and not necessarily limited by any sort of social context. We all thought that the Web would enable us to communicate with the world, but we learned that we don’t necessarily want...
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/31/opinion/31WEDG.html December 31, 2001 The Rules of War Can’t Protect Al Qaeda By RUTH WEDGWOOD EW HAVEN ‹ It makes no sense to win a trial but lose the war. With this in mind, a majority of the American public favors giving...
Ian Andrew Bell has been bending bits into business since 1993. He created Tingle, RosterBot, RingCentral, and other things celebrated and ignominious.
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