From Jon Garfunkel on February 8, 2006 at 10:00 PM
The conjunction of the words "smart mobs" is a book title and no more; the theory that technology alone makes mobs smarter is pure folly. This WaPo article tomorrow by Kevin Sullivan (and 8 contributors!) is more in line of what I was getting at:
Danish Prime Minister Rasmussen: "We are confronted by misinformation passed on by mobile messages and Web logs at such high speed that it is picked up and acted upon before we have a chance to correct it."
Also: Abdul-Rehman Malik, a contributing editor of Q-News, a popular Muslim magazine in Britain, said he had received hundreds of e-mails and dozens of text messages about the cartoons. He said some messages were computer-generated so that thousands of phones could be reached nearly instantly, such as one telling him to reply "no" to a British TV survey about whether to broadcast the cartoons.
Otherwise known as spam, propaganda, etc.
From Robert Niles on February 9, 2006 at 1:28 PM
True. But I was trying to use a familiar term for the concept of mobile device-prompted gatherings. (Even though it is a lousy term, agreed....)
The conjunction of the words "smart mobs" is a book title and no more; the theory that technology alone makes mobs smarter is pure folly. This WaPo article tomorrow by Kevin Sullivan (and 8 contributors!) is more in line of what I was getting at:
Danish Prime Minister Rasmussen:
"We are confronted by misinformation passed on by mobile messages and Web logs at such high speed that it is picked up and acted upon before we have a chance to correct it."
Also:
Abdul-Rehman Malik, a contributing editor of Q-News, a popular Muslim magazine in Britain, said he had received hundreds of e-mails and dozens of text messages about the cartoons. He said some messages were computer-generated so that thousands of phones could be reached nearly instantly, such as one telling him to reply "no" to a British TV survey about whether to broadcast the cartoons.
Otherwise known as spam, propaganda, etc.