]]> http://cultureby.com/2006/06/who_killed_the_.html/comment-page-1#comment-4151 jens Tue, 06 Jun 2006 16:43:50 +0000 http://grantmccracken.com/cco/http:/grantmccracken/page-title#comment-4151 <p>"And they are wise enough not to claim to divine the source, trajectory or advent of cool, as the cool hunters often did. They give us lots and let us choose."</p> <p>... true<br /> and</p> <p>the new cool hunters</p> <p>at least i have the image of alexander von humboldt <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_von_Humboldt" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_von_Humboldt</a> appearing infront of my eyes. </p> <p>collecting beetles - organizing different species (of plants too)</p> <p>the new cool is humboldt.</p> "And they are wise enough not to claim to divine the source, trajectory or advent of cool, as the cool hunters often did. They give us lots and let us choose."

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the new cool hunters

at least i have the image of alexander von humboldt http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_von_Humboldt appearing infront of my eyes.

collecting beetles – organizing different species (of plants too)

the new cool is humboldt.

Grant McCracken has a great post today entitled, Who Killed the Cool Hunter?. I especially like this passage:Who killed the cool hunter? I think contemporary culture did. It got more complicated, in the process outstripping the cognitive abilities of even

This Blog Sits at the: Who Killed the Cool Hunter?…

Aren't we all cool hunters these days? Or anti-cool hunters?

The Internet makes it all possible. Not the inside-out commercial Internet operated by the uncool 40-somethings in the marketing department, but the outside-outside conversational Internet of everyday folk, of which this blog is a small but significant part.

As the pace of cool continues to increase and cool stuff becomes ever more ephemeral, only the maassed eyes and ears of the conversational Internet can ever hope to keep pace.

Take a look at Win Farrell's book "How Hits Happen". It is much better than Malcolm Gladwell's at explaining the dynamics behind hits, fads and cool.