Posts tagged as Flash Mobs
Rich People Island Hotel Now Offers Flash Mobs
"The Marco Island Marriott Beach Resort in Florida adds flash mob services to its amenities list."
Raw Video of College Campus "Osama Death Flash Mobs"
This is not quite what I expected to see in response to the death of Osama bin Laden. I guess it makes sense? It must have been weird for them to have tried to understand 9/11 in 5th grade. Good thing we don't have a draft. I guess. READ MORE
Bill Wasik, So Much To Answer For
You know, in my day "flash mobs" were just a way for like-minded pretentious people to congregate ever so briefly in celebration of how much more special and precious they were than the dead-eyed commuters and consumers all around them. It's sad to see something that started out with such lofty ideals degrade into criminal activity. You thugs are totally destroying the spirit of '03!
The Pittsburgh G20 Dance Party Video
The G20 convenes in Pittsburgh on Thursday, and the kids are getting ready! I don't know, I'd still rather the college students burned something down, but I guess I will take extensively choreographed dance numbers.
Two Things To Read Regarding The Internet Being Free, And Work Also Being Free
Two things to read! Why I Write For Free, which has to do somewhat with this Ben Kunkel n+1 recent piece about the experience of the Internet, which we could barely address except via LOLcat last week, but also about the current FUROR that apparently is raging about the state of unpaid labor in the online writing industry. (Agreed: It is bad when rich people cannot find room in their business plans to pay poor people!) And also here are some people talking about the Bill Wasik book, And Then There's This, which is about, its subtitle says, "How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture." Those people include web kingpin Anil Dash, who notes wisely: "I like music that makes me shake my ass. I like my memes to be fun, created by people who are enjoying what they do."
