Comments on: Microtrends meet Max Headroom http://cultureby.com/2007/10/microtrends-mee.html This Blog Sits At the Intersection of Anthropology and Economics Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:10:58 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Fundysdotcom http://cultureby.com/2007/10/microtrends-mee.html/comment-page-1#comment-2353 Fundysdotcom Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:59:00 +0000 http://grantmccracken.com/cco/http:/grantmccracken/page-title#comment-2353 <p>Another book about nothing really new. They used to say that in the future everyone will have 15 minutes of fame. They were wrong, in the future everybody will write a book about what we already know. Boring. Fundysdotcom</p> Another book about nothing really new. They used to say that in the future everyone will have 15 minutes of fame. They were wrong, in the future everybody will write a book about what we already know. Boring. Fundysdotcom

]]> By: Fundysdotcom http://cultureby.com/2007/10/microtrends-mee.html/comment-page-1#comment-2352 Fundysdotcom Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:56:45 +0000 http://grantmccracken.com/cco/http:/grantmccracken/page-title#comment-2352 <p>Another book about nothing really new. They used to say that in the future everyone will have 15 minutes of fame. They were wrong, in the future everybody will write a book about what we already know. Boring. Fundysdotcom</p> Another book about nothing really new. They used to say that in the future everyone will have 15 minutes of fame. They were wrong, in the future everybody will write a book about what we already know. Boring. Fundysdotcom

]]> By: Alberta http://cultureby.com/2007/10/microtrends-mee.html/comment-page-1#comment-2351 Alberta Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:55:18 +0000 http://grantmccracken.com/cco/http:/grantmccracken/page-title#comment-2351 <p>Folks should read Ezra Klein's review in In These Times (Inthesetimes.com)</p> Folks should read Ezra Klein's review in In These Times (Inthesetimes.com)

]]> By: Chris Anderson http://cultureby.com/2007/10/microtrends-mee.html/comment-page-1#comment-2350 Chris Anderson Sun, 14 Oct 2007 05:25:17 +0000 http://grantmccracken.com/cco/http:/grantmccracken/page-title#comment-2350 <p>"I guess we should be grateful that Penn is not offering up Chris Anderson's "long tail" fallacy, the odd idea that because we have ceased to be a mass culture we are now an utterly particulated universe of ones."</p> <p>Huh? "Universe of ones"? Are you confusing my book with "Bowling Alone"? </p> <p>Grant, either you've never read my book or you're willfully misrepresenting it. Which is it?<br /> </p> "I guess we should be grateful that Penn is not offering up Chris Anderson's "long tail" fallacy, the odd idea that because we have ceased to be a mass culture we are now an utterly particulated universe of ones."

Huh? "Universe of ones"? Are you confusing my book with "Bowling Alone"?

Grant, either you've never read my book or you're willfully misrepresenting it. Which is it?

]]> By: Adrian http://cultureby.com/2007/10/microtrends-mee.html/comment-page-1#comment-2349 Adrian Sat, 13 Oct 2007 13:28:32 +0000 http://grantmccracken.com/cco/http:/grantmccracken/page-title#comment-2349 <p>I agree, we've read this book before and not just from Chris Anderson. Robyn Waters wrote a book called the Hummer and the Mini, which also unhelpfully pointed out that for every trend there is an opposite. I think these are simply symptoms of a postmodern (or post-postmodern if you prefer) culture. Our identities are built from fragments that tell our own stories.</p> I agree, we've read this book before and not just from Chris Anderson. Robyn Waters wrote a book called the Hummer and the Mini, which also unhelpfully pointed out that for every trend there is an opposite. I think these are simply symptoms of a postmodern (or post-postmodern if you prefer) culture. Our identities are built from fragments that tell our own stories.

]]> By: srp http://cultureby.com/2007/10/microtrends-mee.html/comment-page-1#comment-2348 srp Sat, 13 Oct 2007 10:33:46 +0000 http://grantmccracken.com/cco/http:/grantmccracken/page-title#comment-2348 <p>Can you always believe what people say about their own motivations? Do they have conscious access to these, and if so, do they deceive themselves, do they present themselves so as to look better? I've worked with interview data, and they're great for some things, but I think the armchair isn't a terrible place from which to objectively analyze causal hypotheses if you have useful statistical data.</p> Can you always believe what people say about their own motivations? Do they have conscious access to these, and if so, do they deceive themselves, do they present themselves so as to look better? I've worked with interview data, and they're great for some things, but I think the armchair isn't a terrible place from which to objectively analyze causal hypotheses if you have useful statistical data.

]]> By: Elena http://cultureby.com/2007/10/microtrends-mee.html/comment-page-1#comment-2347 Elena Sat, 13 Oct 2007 02:30:00 +0000 http://grantmccracken.com/cco/http:/grantmccracken/page-title#comment-2347 <p>Thanks for addressing the need to actually interact with subjects in order to really understand commercial (and cultural) trends. I've always distrusted armchair social scientists - unfortunately including some of our most revered theorists - because so many of their theories are based on assumption rather than interaction.</p> Thanks for addressing the need to actually interact with subjects in order to really understand commercial (and cultural) trends. I've always distrusted armchair social scientists – unfortunately including some of our most revered theorists – because so many of their theories are based on assumption rather than interaction.

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