New business models? I don't think that's necessarily the aim. It could be that the free-ranging, spontaneous,creative brainstorming that goes on in some of the best blogs can come up with unconventional ideas for solving world problems that would never occur to the 'experts' and 'professionals'.

I started a blog only recently, using my cartoon alter-ego Augustine as the voice. It's tongue-in-cheek but brings up some serious topics (e.g. imaginary interviews with Dubya Bush and Tony Blair about...God's view of the Iraq war??) And only yesterday I had an idea about how to achieve world peace in seven easy steps. Now there's a meme I'd like to spread! How about it? Should we make it contagious?

One of the things we were taught in our HR negotiation class was negotiation styles. The styles coorelated to personality or temperment. Temperment is going to be relatively fixed.

There is a time element, but not in terms of the individual. The individual is fixed in terms of role. They are not fixed in terms of content.

That said, there is a risk orientation involved. The mavens take the risks. In Geoffrey Moore's, technology adoption lifecycle, mavens are technical enthusiasts. And, each of us is a technical enthusiast realtive to some topics. The focus rule applies here 7+/-2 risks and no more. I'll take a software product risk, but not a eye surgery risk.

This risk orientation says we will be mavens for say seven things. It says nothing about our social disposition. I'm shy. I sell, but I don't believe I sell. I am not a connecter by any means. But, this is just me.

Time is a factor. Looking at "How Hits Happen" by Winslow Farrol, we see that time is maliable in terms of speeding up or slowing down the epidemic. Farrol built agent-based models imbued with the behaviors of those in influence networks. He used those models to test tactics and create hits.

Peter's [?] the "Diffusion of Innovation" was the first to describe influence networks. Other people built this model.

Moore also says that the technology adoption lifecycle isn't about time. But, for me, there is definately a sequence, an asynchronous sequence. You can't tell time by it, but you do know what needs to happen next.