{"id":1578,"date":"2003-08-07T05:38:08","date_gmt":"2003-08-07T19:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/07\/flash-mobsso-what\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T13:47:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T21:47:38","slug":"flash-mobsso-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/08\/07\/flash-mobsso-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Mobs&#8230;so what?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe it&#8217;s just me, but this whole <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordspy.com\/words\/flashmob.asp\" title=\"Flash Mob\">flash mob<\/a> meme is already getting old. In my mind, it <a href=\"http:\/\/jumptheshark.com\/about.htm\" title=\"Jump the Shark...what is this all about?\">jumped the shark<\/a> when Scoble <a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0001011\/2003\/08\/01.html#a4073\" title=\"See ya all at the Flash Mob today at noon.\">publicly organized one<\/a> on his weblog (no offense, Robert!).<\/p>\n<p>When the flash mob thing first started getting talked about, it was cool precicely because it was a technology-enabled &#8220;underground&#8221; event. Seemingly at random, a large group of people would appear somewhere, mingle or do something silly for a few minutes, then disappear again. Fun, harmless, social hacking. Now, though, it seems like every time I turn around, another weblog is trying to jump on the flash mob bandwagon. It&#8217;s passe.<\/p>\n<p>Pros and cons to our \u00fcber-networked society, I guess. Cool ideas can form, break big, and then become old all in the space of a week or two.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe I&#8217;m just being overly cynical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe it&#8217;s just me, but this whole >flash mob meme is already getting old. In my mind, it jumped the shark when Scoble publicly organized one on his weblog (no offense, Robert!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2043],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}