July 26th, 2003 archives

July 26, 2003 by Patti

Tipping

Tipping, in the New York Times, bemoans the overuse of the term “tipping point,” Valdis Krebs alerts SOCNET, with a question, “can betweenness be next?”. Note I did blog this use of Tipping Point in conjunction with the war in April. I think that “weak ties” will hit the top of the charts before “betweeness” [...]

July 26, 2003 by Patti

Theodore Zeldin at the Tate

Saturday morning’s email brought two links to Theodore Zeldin. One, a quote sent around by one of our local knowledge cafe founders: Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don’t just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, engage in new trains [...]