{"id":1136,"date":"2003-08-06T01:15:15","date_gmt":"2003-08-06T05:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/08\/06\/further-thoughts-on-flash-mobs\/"},"modified":"2003-08-06T01:15:15","modified_gmt":"2003-08-06T05:15:15","slug":"further-thoughts-on-flash-mobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/06\/further-thoughts-on-flash-mobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Further Thoughts on Flash Mobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a522'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The flash-mob rage continues to spread around the planet, with recent events reported from across the United States and over to Europe, Australia and Singapore. <\/p>\n<p>The first European mob took place in Rome on July 24, when 300 people entered a music and bookshop asking for non-existent titles. The latest flash mob incident occurred at 6:01 p.m. on Friday in Berlin, where about 40 people in the middle of a busy street took out their mobile phones and shouted, &#8220;yes, yes!&#8221; and then applauded. Flash mobs are planned for London on August 7, Amsterdam on August 8, and in Dublin, Zurich and Vienna.<\/p>\n<p> The point seems to be the pointlessness, but as pointed out in<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/discuss\/msgReader$466?mode=day\"> a previous posting (Flash Mob Flop)<\/a>, the potential for political application may hijack the movement at any moment<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/stories\/storyReader$521\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The flash-mob rage continues to spread around the planet, with recent events reported from across the United States and over to Europe, Australia and Singapore. The first European mob took place in Rome on July 24, when 300 people entered &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/06\/further-thoughts-on-flash-mobs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[576],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wacky-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}