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- From: Thomas Beckett <thomas AT tbeckett.com>
- To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: [internetworkers] smart mobs
- Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 22:23:18 -0500
Here's a fun, fast review of Howard Rheingold's book /Smart Mobs/.
http://www.mindjack.com/books/smartmobs.html
I'm reading the book now and I concur with Mr. Doctorow's review, only he says it so much better than I could. "Smart Mobs are the Slashdot effect applied to the meatspace zeitgeist. A squillion like-minded souls who don't know each other and will never meet pop out of the transmetropolitan brickface and break the white-noise balance of atomic viewpoints to speak with one voice, roaring a righteous YES or an adamant NO without organizers, without leaders, without manifestoes or forethought. Enabled by close-to-hand, invisibly-ubiquitous tech -- the Internet, mobile phones, two-way pagers, blogs, the Web, WiFi -- they turn meme into deed."
Here's more on the book: http://www.smartmobs.com/index.html
TaB
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[internetworkers] smart mobs,
Thomas Beckett, 11/06/2002
- Re: [internetworkers] smart mobs, Steven Champeon, 11/06/2002
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