A Competing Flash Mob

[drplokta]

There seems to be another London flash mob tonight, organised by someone different:

I won't be able to make it to this one, and in general it seems to have been less well publicised.

Comments

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

Rumour has it that there may be one in Birmingham soon as well, but this one will be 'a little different'....

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

The more of these that occur, the less effective any one will be. They're best when they're rare.

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[hddod.livejournal.com]

I think I don't understand the whole concept. I thought the whole point was that they were pretty spontaneous -- doesn't the whole publicity, organisation and general "everybody's aware of what's going on" thing totally defeat the object?

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Plastic on flash mobs:

http://www.plastic.com/article.html;sid=03/08/14/00530047;cmt=45

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[molesworth.livejournal.com]

You might be interested to learn that the "flash mob" phenomenon made the national TV news here, albeit just a one of the end of news show "light" items.
Larry Niven must be loving this (qv op cit ect "The Permanent Floating Riot Club")