On Oct 6, 2009, at 7:48 PM, Sean Andrews wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 20:26, martin <mschiller at pobox.com> wrote:
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>> Have any snowball experiences to share?
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> Only once, but I was much younger. It left a bad taste in my mouth.
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> s
beware the yellow snow.
I was referring to Max comment about good ideas 'snowballing'.
Snowballing is a compelling idea. I tried to recall incidents of my own in which presenting a good idea, had resulted in a snowball effect. The only one I could think of involved a recent 'Showtime' series titled 'Californication'. I had used that particular conflation in a journalism class many years ago. Did someone pick it up and run with it? Not that I'd ever know. Maybe it was something I had picked up and passed on.
But the point of the good idea snowballing seems to be where the idea is presented - and although this list is richly laden with critique and analysis, it seems devoid of 'good ideas'.
martin