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	Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Flash mob
		Following this flash mob, about 200 people flooded the lobby and mezzanine of the Hyatt hotel in synchronized applause for about 15 seconds, and next a shoe boutique in Soho was invaded by participants pretending to be tourists on a bus trip.
		Flash mobs started as pointless stunts, but the concept has already developed for the benefit of political and social agendas.
		Flash mob computing is a temporary supercomputer made when a large group of people get together and tie computers together for a single purpose or event.
	fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/Flash_mob (918 words)

	SocioSite: PECULIARITIES OF CYBERSPACE: FLASH MOBS
		A flash mob is a group of people who are mobilized via the internet and other electronic media to come together somewhere at a certain time for a short period of time in order to do something absurdist or provocative.
		Also in the Dutch mobbing environment repeatedly proposals are made to organize 'charitable' or 'social' flash mobs that clean streets with a broom for 5 minutes in an underprivileged area or in a neglected park.
		Without long, flash mobs will be included in the action repertoire of social movements, of political parties that want to mobilize their supporters in election campaigns, and of companies that want to sell their products and services to customers.
	www.sociosite.org /flashmob.php (4732 words)

	CNN.com - 'Flash mob' craze spreads - Aug. 8, 2003
		A "flash mob" in the rugs department at Macy's, New York.
		The craze for "flash mobs" -- where jokers gather en masse at a moment's notice, perform an inane activity and then disperse quickly -- is spreading across Europe.
		Flash mobs have been planned in London on August 7, Amsterdam on August 8, and in Dublin, Zurich and Vienna.
	www.cnn.com /2003/TECH/internet/08/04/flash.mob/index.html (812 words)

	Flash mob - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1800s Tasmania, the term "flash mob" was used to describe a subculture consisting of female prisoners, based on the term “flash language” for the jargon that these women used.
		Flash mob actions are planned to happen as part of the Eurizons tour across Central Europe to the European Parliament in September 2006.
		This flash mob was organised by Improv Everywhere.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flash_mob (3171 words)

	Resources & Activities: New Words (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Flash mobbing is an uncountable noun used to refer to the general concept or process, and as a countable noun, it refers to an individual event.
		flash crowd, which was the title of a 1973 science fiction short story by author Larry Niven.
		flash crowd is also used in Internet contexts to describe the situation where a website suddenly and unexpectedly attracts a surge of interest from large numbers of people.
	www.macmillandictionary.com /New-Words/030822-flash-mob.htm (415 words)

	Has the fun ended for flash mobs?
		Rohit Tikmany, 25, who organised Mumbai's first flash mob on October 4, told Rediff Guide to the Net, that he was suspending the flash mob project run from his Web site mumbaimobs.org.
		But he also said flash mobs had the potential of being misused for violent or even terrorist activities such as rioting and bombing.
		When people ask him what the point of a flash mob is, he says there is none.
	www.rediff.com /netguide/2003/oct/08flash.htm (622 words)

	Wired News: E-Mail Mobs Materialize All Over
		Flash mobs are performance art projects involving large groups of people.
		In Minneapolis, a mob is planning to gather at an as-yet-undisclosed location on July 22 at 6:25 p.m., according to the group's organizer, who asked to remain anonymous.
		Unlike the NYC mob, which is an invite-only affair, the San Francisco mob is open to one and all.
	www.wired.com /news/culture/0,1284,59518,00.html (979 words)

	Flash (Ftrain.com)
		Flash mob — a work of situationist art whereby individuals communicate over the Internet in order to come together as a group without warning, perform some random, pre-defined action intended to disrupt and confuse the people nearby, and then disperse.
		I imagined the flash mobbers checking their watches, waiting for the moment when they would bring themselves to the statue.
		But this was a group to which the idea of the exclusive, ironic, parodic flash mob—the egalitarian event suddenly made elite, turned into a situationist event that functioned as a parody of a situationist event—well, they would love it.
	www.ftrain.com /FlashMob.html (1902 words)

	News in Science - Flash mobs: a new social phenomenon? - 30/07/2003
		A social phenomenon known as the 'flash mob', which began in New York and relies on e-mail, appears to be spreading worldwide.
		Since the first flash mob was organised in Manhattan in May, by a mischievous underground group called the Mob Project, the practise has already spread to other U.S. cities, while plans are being drawn up for events in London, Rome and Vienna.
		Mob number three saw nearly 200 people flood the lobby of the swanky Hyatt Hotel and erupt into synchronised applause in front of bemused guests, while number four involved the invasion of a shoe boutique in Soho with participants pretending to be hick tourists from the northern U.S. state of Maryland on a bus trip.
	www.abc.net.au /science/news/stories/s913314.htm (846 words)

	They came, and in a flash, they were gone
		A flash mob is an impromptu gathering of people doing (usually) something whimsical, from a massive game of patty-cake to belting out the alphabet.
		Flash mobs have been popping up recently in cities across the nation and in Europe.
		Each flash mob is started out by a different person, via chain e-mails, chat rooms or blog sites with a time and a location and activity for mobbers.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /local/135339_flashmob16.html (576 words)

	Flash mob computing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Flash mob computer derives its name from the more general term flash mob which can mean any activity involving many people co-ordinated through virtual communities coming together for brief periods of time for a specific task or event.
		Flash mob computing is a more specific type of flash mob for the purpose of bringing people and their computers together to work on a single task or event.
		The first flash mob computer was created on April 3, 2004 at the University of San Francisco using software written at USF called FlashMob (not to be confused with the more general term flash mob).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flash_mob_computing (441 words)

	What is flash mob? - a definition from Whatis.com - see also: mobster, mobbing, flashmob
		- A flash mob is a group of strangers who organize themselves, using electronic media such as cell phones or the Internet, to gather together in a public place, behave in a pre-determined (and often silly) manner for a pre-determined amount of time, and then quickly disperse.
		Flash mobs can arguably be called public performance art, although participants say it's fun just to "freak people out" and shake up the status quo without breaking the law.
		One of the first flash mobs to get press coverage occurred in Manhattan in July 2003, where more than 250 strangers quickly changed their plans to meet at Grand Central Station (because news of the planned event leaked out and spoiled the element of surprise) and met instead at the Hyatt Hotel.
	searchmobilecomputing.techtarget.com /sDefinition/0,,sid40_gci916705,00.html (424 words)

	FLASHHACK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Mobs are about the power of many, in the pursuit of nothing.
		....Flash Mobs are striking in that they are an affinity event for people who have no affinity group.
		Flash mobs combine the pointlessness of chain letters with the adolescent inanity of "Everybody cough at exactly 2:08!" rituals in high school.
	flashhack.blogspot.com (1903 words)

	eyebeam - distributed creativity - interviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Mobs last for ten minutes or less, and they are sort of absurd -- or apolitical, at least -- in their content.
		At first mob -- the one that got broken up by the cops -- I had gone with the intention that nobody would know that I was the person who had organized it.
		The first Mob in Boston was an "Ode to Bill" -- they went to the greeting card section of the Coop in Harvard Square, and said that they were looking for a card for their friend Bill from New York.
	cordova.asap.um.maine.edu /~wagora/w-agora/flashmobster.html (3140 words)

	OnMilwaukee.com Milwaukee Buzz: Flash mob organizing in Brew City
		The Flash Mob Movement is a crowd of non-acquainted people who communicate over the Internet and show up at a specific place, at a certain time, perform some brief act and then leave.
		It's befuddling, considering this new mob scene started only two months ago in Manhattan by a guy named "Bill," who sent an e-mail to a few of his friends, who forwarded it to their friends, who forwarded it (you get the point).
		Although some may say the flash mob concept is already dead due to overexposure in the media, it's still a good excuse to do something completely absurd, just for the fun of it.
	www.onmilwaukee.com /buzz/articles/flashmob.html (891 words)

	Turns of Phrase: Flash mob
		One pointer to its being rather more than the fashion of a moment is that several verbal compounds of the name have already been formed, including flash mobber and flash mobbing, as well as the abbreviation mobber, always a sign of a term that has hit the collective unconscious.
		The “flash mob” phenomenon is part sanctioned insanity, part Seinfeld on the loose, part nonsensical wanderings through city streets en masse.
		During one recent flash mob scene at the Zurich railway station, flash mobbers formed a long single-file line with hands linked, dividing the station.
	www.worldwidewords.org /turnsofphrase/tp-fla1.htm (320 words)

	Glowlab: Flash mob 6
		As the soon-to-be mob gathered critical mass, parents who were actually there to shop looked somewhat nervous and pulled their children close.
		At precisely 7:18 pm, as shoppers gawked and TV cameramen appeared from nowhere, the mob was transformed into a tribe of cowed Neanderthals, kneeling to worship the mighty green lizard god.
		Mob 6 was ten minutes of surreal, hilarious chaos.
	glowlab.blogs.com /news/2003/08/flash_mob_6.html (499 words)

	My Crowd: Part 1 (Harpers.org) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Perhaps this is the explanation for Fusion Flash Concerts, an otherwise inexplicable marketing program this past summer in which Ford, attempting to sell a new sedan to the underthirty- five market, partnered with Sony to appropriate what may be the most forgettable hipster fad of the past five years.
		Not only was the flash mob a vacuous fad; it was, in its very form (pointless aggregation and then dispersal), intended as a metaphor for the hollow hipster culture that spawned it.
		At its best, the Mob Project brought to this task a sort of formal unity, as can be illustrated in MOB #3, which took place fifteen days after #2 and was set in the Grand Hyatt, a hotel fronting on Forty-second Street adjacent to Grand Central Station.
	www.harpers.org /MyCrowd_01.html (1942 words)

	CNN.com - Flash mob phenomenon strikes in Brazil - Aug. 13, 2003
		"Flash mobs," organized on the Internet, are a new form of surreal street theater.
		In a bizarre stunt, a crowd of about 100 people converged on a busy street corner, each removed one shoe and beat it on the pavement several times, before putting their shoes back on and leaving the scene.
		The so-called flash mob phenomenon, in which crowds organized by e-mail lists and Web sites perform harmless stunts for a few minutes in prearranged public location before abruptly disappearing, apparently took place in Brazil for the first time.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/americas/08/13/offbeat.brazil.flashmob.ap/index.html (218 words)

	gizmag Article: Commercial Flash Mobbing
		Now Flash Mobbing isn’t new — but using it for commercial ends is a new spin on the anarchic beginnings of the trend.
		Flash mobs are instant gatherings of large groups of people who are notified via emails or text messages just prior to the event taking place, and simultaneously converge on a set location.
		Fans can visit www.fusionflashconcerts.com or text "Go" to 35274 (Flash) on their mobile phones to register as an "Insider," to find out if their favorite artists will be performing at a park, club, pier or parking lot near them.
	www.gizmag.com /go/4281 (825 words)

	Xenophilia - Flashmob
		A flash mob is performance art with no purpose other than fun.
		We had a small flash mob protest in front of them for 10 minutes.
		Flash Mob #3: No new flash mobs are planned at this time.
	www.xenophilia.com /flashmob.htm (399 words)

	Flash Mob History - aa419
		For the 2nd Flash Mob we set the goals a little bit higher and aimed at five fake banks at once.
		The 6th Flash Mob had great success -- the first bank shut down within 15 minutes and others fell throughout the day.
		The Flash Mob 14 was held on the 13th and 14th February, 2006.
	wiki.aa419.org /index.php/Flash_Mob_History (355 words)

	Flash mob with a purpose: accessible supercomputing / Techies descend on USF's Koret Gym
		Flash mob with a purpose: accessible supercomputing / Techies descend on USF's Koret Gym
		A "flash mob" of PC-toting technophiles descended on the University of San Francisco's Koret Gym on Saturday, hoping to create one of the fastest supercomputers in the world.
		With flash mob, all I need is 100 students who think this is worth it.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/04/04/FLASHMOB.TMP (737 words)

	Wired News: E-Mail Mob Takes Manhattan
		The crowd of people was participating in the Mob Project, an e-mail-driven experiment in organizing groups of people who suddenly materialize in public places, interact with others according to a loose script and then dissipate just as suddenly as they appeared.
		That event drew six police officers and one paddy wagon, after one of the e-mail recipients (now officially known to the mob as "Squealy") alerted authorities to the impending arrival of the mob.
		That evening, mob representatives sporting stylish headgear appeared in the bars and passed out slips of paper containing information on where the mob was to convene and what to do once they got there.
	www.wired.com /news/culture/0,1284,59297,00.html (868 words)

	Flash Mob London Soho Main Site
		Flash Mobs are seemingly unplanned gatherings of large groups of people that converge in public (or semipublic) places for brief periods of time.
		All members of a Flash Mob simultaneously converge to form the mob and then quickly disperse again at a given time, all members departing in different directions.
		When you get sent the details of the MOB send them on to everyone you know with a copy of this URL so they can sign up for the newsletter.
	www.geocities.com /londonmobs (459 words)

	BBC NEWS \| England \| Manchester \| Flash mob hits Manchester
		The mob's organisers had intended to pull the stunt in the complex's Filmworks cinema, but were foiled by staff.
		Almost as soon as the mob had formed, it dispersed, in true "flash mob" style.
		The Manchester flash mob had been arranged through the flashmob.com website while emails had been sent to participants during the day, telling them to meet at pre-arranged pubs in the city centre.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/england/manchester/3149833.stm (332 words)

	Flash Mobs - an introduction to the world of flash-mobbing. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The roots of flash mobbing can be traced back to New York earlier this year, with numerous follow-ups having appeared around the globe since then.
		A6.fter the Flash MOB, carry on with your lives as per normal, await instructions for Flash MOB #2.
		The phenomenon is intended to be short-lived, and also to be baffling, but we can safely conclude that if flash mobs didn't generate any media coverage at all, they wouldn't be anywhere near as much fun.
	www.sirc.org /articles/flash_mob.shtml (1559 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Technology \| Smart mob storms London
		The latest New York flash mob caused consternation in the Toys R Us store where flash mobsters gathered for their sixth outing.
		Since June flash mobs have sprung up in around 30-40 locations and one seems to be taking place somewhere in the world every few days.
		A mob in Toronto had to be cancelled because there was a danger that mobsters could be outnumbered by law enforcement and the media.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/technology/3134559.stm (465 words)

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