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I am steadily making progress on my project.  To remind everyone, my project is a model of trends as they spread according to Malcolm Gladwell's book, The Tipping Point.  Specifically, I am incorporating the individuals he discusses who spread fads or messages into my model.  In my base model, I have 1000 red turtles and 1 green turtle, who is the initiator of the trend.  Once the green turtle comes into contact with three other turtles, it turns the next one it comes into contact with green as well (it spreads the fad).  Eventually, all the turtles will become green.  

So far, I have incorporated Gladwell's idea of salesmen into this model, and I am working on incorporating connectors right now. Salesmen, which if you remember are very convincing individuals, are blue turtles that, once green, will turn every turtle they run into green as well rather than having to run into three like the normal turtles.

The connectors (individuals that have a lot more connections than a typical person) that I am working on now will once they are green be able to turn multiple turtles in an area green as well. I'm just having some difficulty with the code for this.

Lastly, mavens, or the information holders that Gladwell discusses are last on my agenda.  I am having difficulty coming up with ideas on how to model them. 

I am excited to show everybody what I have so far in class tomorrow.