De-Meming Malcolm Gladwell: Virtual Worlds, Social Media, and Success
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Malcolm Gladwell is a threat to the economy. He is dangerously depleting the supply of memes at a time of economic distress and political change. For each Gladwell meme there is another - something more useful, something that means something, a whole series of unborn memes that will never see the light of day because there's Malcolm again, slurping from the meme pool like a drunken sailor.
Even his hair is a meme. Sure, once we would have called it his "trademark" but those days are long gone. In a world of social media and Web 2.0 and whatever, Gladwell's hair ...