Change Agents

Malcolm Gladwell's books, The Tipping Point and Blink, have sold more than three million copies combined in North America alone. Last week his new book, Outliers, was released. It looks at what factors lead to making a person successful in the workplace. According to the Globe and Mail, the book "thoroughly demolishes the myth of the self-made man or woman." Gladwell says, "there was a kind of existing narrative of …

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Tom Asacker is the change agent's change agent. So it's natural that he has some thoughts on changing one's behavior when different/better results are sought. You have the talent, the ability and the contacts. But do you have the vision and courage? Vision and courage are what leadership is all about: Making sure that everyone viscerally understands your purpose (and it should not be to produce and sell things. It’s …

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I don't mind saying I'm fascinated by this story on startups in online journalism. At the center of the piece is VoiceofSanDiego.org, the creation of San Diego venture capitalist and entrepreneur, Buzz Woolley, and a rag tag crew of journalists swimming to shore from sinking print vehicles. “Information is now a public service as much as it’s a commodity,” Wolley says. “It should be thought of the same way as …

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"We desire proprietary, commercially viable products and technologies for our existing categories and for new solutions that will make our products better tasting, better for you, more convenient or more socially responsible." -Kraft Once upon a time, inventors with big ideas had to keep them to themselves, for fear of "losing" them to a large corporation. That is, if the large corporation would even listen. But now …

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Leah Culver, 25, of Pownce is one of Fast Company's "Most Influential Women in Web 2.0." Culver started out as an art major at the University of Minnesota, but found her calling in a required programming class. "Before that I didn't even know what programming was,” she admits. She built Pownce, a file sharing soc net, from scratch using a programming language called Python. "As a programmer the route to your own …

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Kottke's version of BarackObamaIsYourNewBicycle.com is monetized via small display ads from companies like Rackspace, Shutterstock, Emma and GoodBarry. His content is also user-submitted. The original, written by a Wired editor, is monetized via a book strategy. …

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According to ValleyWag, if you write about Kevin Rose of Digg, "traffic to your magazine's website will soar." AdPulp doesn't have a magazine, but what the hell, we'll give it a try, for we want to snare the almighty ad dollar just as much as anyone else. Bonus link: Inc. cover story on Kevin Rose, the man who drives traffic to magazine's websites and maybe a blog or two. …

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Alexander H. Williams "teaches people how to break the rules and create vibrant online community networks with blogs, podcasts and magic bus rides." He also shoots video and makes podcasts and stuff. In one of his recent efforts, Franz Maruna, CEO at concrete5, opens up about the web development process and how traditional agencies are ill equipped to handle the work. why agencies suck so bad at making web sites …

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