Friday, February 10, 2006
Malcolm Gladwell's Revenge
by Tom Bozzo
Famous last words.
A copy of The Tipping Point was floating around my mother-in-law's house when we were there over Christmas week, there so we could take a look at its analysis of Sesame Street and Blue's Clues — in particular, how the latter encourages and inevitably gets verbal participation by viewers. Gladwell of course was referring to the intended verbal participation by child viewers. To which I said, "Ha, Mr. Canny Observation Guy! My kid doesn't talk back to Steve (thank goodness)."
Famous last words.
