How trends propagate

Very interesting read about rebutting the ideas of Gladwell and his “tipping point” viral epicenter. Especially this sentence strikes a point with me:
“[...] researchers like anthropologist Pascal Boyer, who studies the psychology of religion, argue that our brains have evolved with an overactive agency-recognition system: We look for—and find—individual intention and design behind any pattern, [...]

Note to self

Create a feed for monitoring new releases of all my favourite recording artists at Music-Alerts.com. That way I won’t miss out on any new releases for the major artists at least.
Another note to self:  Why use a crappy site like this and don’t get the releases I need? build a feed-builder myself which scrapes information [...]

Tag clouds

Tag clouds can be hammered for a certain two-dimensional feel to them – “they’re missing the point!” so to speak.
However, as long as the limitations are understood, I think tag clouds are a seriously cool technique that can add value to many a site. And, in this example, to a speech…
Check it out [Pattern Recognition [...]