Re: Flash mobs

From: Alan Patrick (a.patrick@btinternet.com)
Date: Sat 09 Aug 2003 - 04:05:16 GMT

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    I take it y'all read Rheingold's book "Smart Mobs"? Yesterday in London a Flash Mob gathered at a Sofa store.....

    Alan

    ----- Original Message ----- From: "Douglas Brooker" <dbrooker@clara.co.uk> To: "memetics list" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 3:35 PM Subject: Flash mobs

    > spreading rather rapidly
    >
    > here are a few links
    >
    > http://www.geocities.com/londonmobs/
    >
    > Flash mob
    > http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblog/idx/0,6799,1010406,00.html
    >
    > August 4: The flash mob is coming to London. Flash mobs - or, you might
    > uncharitably say, geek gatherings - are seemingly random meetings of
    > people for a set period of time, arranged by email and text messages, a
    > la Howard Rheingold's book Smart Mobs. The phenomenon began in New York
    > but has spread to
    > several other cities, including Rome, Sheffield, Phoenix, Arizona and
    > Boston. Cue bemused articles from the likes of the New York Times, the
    > Christian Science Monitor and, ahem, the Guardian. Could flash mobs be a
    > new form of political activism? The jury's still out.
    >
    > http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/04/international/europe/04BERL.html
    > http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0804/p01s02-ussc.html
    > http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1010121,00.html
    > http://azufrieden.blog-city.com/index.cfm
    >
    > http://www.smartmobs.com/book/book_summ.html
    > http://www.cheesebikini.com/
    > http://flashmob.fantasmaformaggino.it/
    > http://www.geocities.com/sheffmob/
    > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/azflashmobs/
    > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bostoncitymob/
    >
    >
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