FREE/Long Tail

Boston Globe’s excellent Ideas section reviews Free

Drake Bennett writes a long, thoughtful and, well, mixed review of Free. Sample: “Duncan Watts, a network theorist and a principal research scientist at Yahoo! Research [says] “He’s taking perfectly reasonable and in themselves interesting and valid observations and expanding them into a grand theory, but it turns out that the grand theory can’t sustain itself,” Watts says. “To the extent that what he’s saying is true it’s not new and to the extent that it’s new it’s not true.””