Yahoo! Silences Boston Flash Mob?
August 18th, 2003A group of flash mob organizers in Boston reports that Yahoo! Groups suddenly and unexpectedly removed the Bostoncitymob Web site, where Boston flash mobbers were organizing. Along with the site, the organizers lost a list of more than 1,000 people who signed up to receive announcements about the next Boston flash mob. They lost their Yahoo! e-mail account as well.
The group posted a new Yahoo! Group here, but perhaps flash mob organizers should consider using services other than Yahoo! to host their Web sites from now on. At the least, keep a backup copy of any Yahoo-hosted mailing lists that you own, in case they disappear.
Flash mobs are over. Passe. Done. Terminado.
The minute anyone dweeb in a newsroom gets ahold of anything original, you can bet that it’s shelf-life has just expired.
The only reason from now on to consider a flash mob would be for non-peaceful activities.
Jim, I disagree with you. There are several of us out here who have not had the opportunity to participate in a flash mob. I personally would be interested in joining one just to say I’ve done it. I would not consider that a non-peaceful motive.
Jim, you need to get life. If you don’t want to have fun feel free to go home and look at porn on the internet like you do most nights rather yapping about other people trying to have a good time.
Jim that is so ridiculas so now that it has been done in a couple of cities if it expanded to others it has to be violent? It is closed minded ultra right persons like you that go off and creat a totaly false image of people trying to havve good holsome fun. GET A LIFE and realize that there is a world outside your demented false perseption
I had a bunch of Yahoo groups that I founded get erased, but Yahoo had nothing to do with it, they claimed. In my case, it appeared that someone hacked in and erased my groups. That may have happenned here, too. Why would Yahoo erase it on purpose?
Jim, you’re right, flash mobs are coming to an end. Thus, the evolution of flash mobs to slash mobs. Spread the word everyone. Same idea, gather a mob at a densely populated area, then slash the onlookers. Its a great way to have fun with others while killing people. Fun times.
You know, one of those big brown things with sticks on it, that grows out of the ground and stuff. They usually have leaves. They can get pretty big.
You are stoopid
A plantlike growth from a seed. A place where cats like to get stuck at. A place for leaves to grow, a source of wood.
its something that grows outside…it starts a seedling..then a sapling.its parts consist of trunk, limbs, and leaves. teh leaves are green, and the trunk is brown. it grows from end out, like your hair. you can find out how old it is by cutting horizontally through the trunk and counting the rings.
A perennial woody object having a main trunk and usually a distinct crown, filled with coloured leaves mostly green depending on the season.
BARK! BARK! BARK BARK!
It’s a tall plant, with a tough outer covering, and long offshoots that have solar ray collectors on them that convert light energy in to chemical energy
its brown, its green, it’s coming for you
A larger than usual plant, some with fruits, some with flowers, some tall, some short.
Someone has to tell me when the next flash mob is going to meet in NYC. Or at least let me know of someone that organizes it. Thanks;)
A large leafy generally brown organic substance. It grows in the ground and produces oxygen. They provide shade.
I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as one.
Fine, I’ll say it: someone can’t see the forest for the trees.
You know what people should do. Flash Mob Gas stations. Maybe this will stop people from consuming gas so much and drop the price of it! They just jacked up the price of gas right after the power outage! Pisses me off!
What a wonderful existance. Goldenrod colors with life that flourishes in its very soul. The birds, the insects, the children! Almost its own subcultural event. And you can build a house in it from its very essence. What a God perfect send.
Branches like my soul. Forever reaching into the distance. Leaves…fall. It still stands…tall.
maybe flash mobs are over.
maybe they just evolve…to smart mobs.
there was this tall tihing with green leaves it swayed in the wind and smelled like feet
squirrel run trough my arms to deposit their nuts in my heart
“mobster” — now you’re getting it!
green leaves and tough brown bark deep root system and chaotic branches gripping the earth for dear life houses for birds and squirels place for tire swings and too build club houses sometimes they have fruit other times they have nuts some serve no purpose other than air management. end
Um… what are we talking about exactly????
It’s tall and it’ll squish your ass if you are under it when it falls
A mobbing resources available to all is at Flocksmart, which has RSVP facilities as well as locational and subject matter categorization. It appears to be a decent enough tool.
Is made of alive toothpicks.
dogs piss on em, they are tall.
THEY BURN, YOU CAN HANG FROM THEM
oh great boreal wasteland, how doust thou bend in thy summer’s glare; how must thy wear the winter’s wares? hark! it is upon these camoflouge boughs, that saplings grow unto human form.
Damn, you freaks are bored……seems Cher was building houses for Habitat for Humanity this SCORCHING weekend in Minneapolis. That’s admirable…I mean compared to pudgy Gen Y’ers doing absolutely n o t h i n g.
I think it is EXTREMELY funny that hackers are spoiling the reindeer games for you dweebs….It would seem that THEY are the ones having the real FUN. hahahahahahahaha
Birds pirch and nest, the cold sheds its coat, looking regal in the frost, ah but life begins agian.
Erect and hard with a cork center.
CapeCodMob on Yahoo got shut down too. We will be holding our first this Friday night. Meet on Main St in Hyannis, outside either the Dog Shack or Kandy Korner for instructions.
We shuld use network54
not using yahoo groups.
But what’s the point?
You may be interested in watching this report from the Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/mmedia/technology/082003-11v.htm
Well, I don’t know if they shut it down on purpose or not, but it sure was pretty small — only about 20 people, tops. :-/
Is the flash mob movement over?
I doubt it is, Anthony. I doubt discovery of a new mode of expression, a twist in a certain state of affairs, can be forgotten or gotten rid of.
Clarification on my last comment — the Yahoo! group wasn’t small, but those same people tried to organize a mob tonight, but it was a flop and only a few (20 or less) people showed.
Sorry for any confusion.
Several hundred people (300-500) last night for London Flashmob 2.
Photos at http://www.nyclondon.com/london-flashmob
Well, we don’t really want to characterize last night’s Boston Mob as a flop or failure as Anthony at wackyfun.net said, but it wasn’t large, that’s for sure.
We were obviously planning on a larger turnout, but our technical problems pretty much killed us.
We don’t think this has any bearing on whether or not flashmobs are dying out, it was just the result of our various technical issues.
The point of it was to go to the next step of flashmobbing. We didn’t want to cancel, and we were hoping we could overcome the problems if we could get the word out to the people on our mailing list (We couldn’t contact them directly because the list was on the yahoo group. This group had only one moderator; bostoncitymob@yahoo.com. Yahoo made bostoncitymob invalid. Without moderator access, we were toast.)
In retrospect, maybe we should have cancelled, but we’ve learned, and we can do better next time.
i cant wait for the chicago one!
The whole flash mob concept seems silly to me. It’s not much different than doing the wave at a ballgame. Go to a parade or something.
Spam comments. THAT’s a good way to get people on your side, Paul Revere.
Pfft.
Flash Mob Saturday 30th in London, UK… Yay!
Please let any Londoners you know, know:
You are cordially invited to a flash mob next Saturday afternoon (30/08/03), to be held near Waterloo station (nice and close to Soho etc). Venue has spacious outdoor bit for spill-over, “prank” is funny and legal, and, unusually, will be funny even if 10 or less people attend. But we want hundreds to come, obviously. So please pass on the good word to any softy southerners you know…
Yours sincerely,
Hopleton Brown.
More Will Be Revealed (when appropriate, prob. Friday 29th).
If this has piqued anyone’s interest, let me know (but don’t flood the damn inbox!). In a few days I may be able to give you a hint as to what the “prank” involves…
I have removed the anti-Republican comment-spam from the clown who calls himself “Paul Revere.”
Folks, please don’t post random Democrat/Republican rants here; try to keep the comments at least loosely related to the entries they’re attached to. If you don’t realize that the Democrats and the Republicans have become essentially the same party, funded and controlled by the same corporations, please go discuss it elsewhere.
And before getting too riled up about this guy’s rant, keep in mind that (s)he might have been a Republican simply -posing- as Democrat, using such a comically absurd rant to make Democrats look stupid and short-sighted…
OHHHHHHH GOD !
FLASH MOB 6 FEAT UNDER !!!
MORE THAN 50 GUYS DID AN FLASH MOB UNDER THE EARTH
IN A CEMITERY ! IT WAS AMAIZING !!!
send me all. the idea of mobbing is one in the face for the c.j.a. and is a brilliant way of organising a party. the road alliance used the idea to block roads for street parties. we all need to rent tuxes and raid the best restaurants and clubs chanting give me some.
I’ve heard of some big “marketing heads” in my country that are thinking in how to exploid this. Imagine: do a flashmob in a Starbucks, with all the media and so on, and after that give cofee to everyone and be very cool.
Anyone afraid?
I’ve had a few marketer types approach me already about setting up mobs for them. Yes, I’m scared. I wake up many mornings in a cold sweat having dreamed that Nike offered me some ungodly sum to hold a flock that would form a Nike swoosh in Union Square. Yeesh.
As for having nothing better to do: from the beginning, I’ve wanted to do a flock that benefitted the local community in some way. One of the original ideas was to build an instant and collaborative canned food sculpture (unbound) and donate the food to a local food bank. Whne I called the local food banks, they blanched at the idea of 100 people showing up and suddenly dropping off food. And I didn;t want to do anything that would get either them or the mobbers tagged as litterers by the authorities. So back to the drawing board. Thoughts?
Rob- that’s a really good idea. Helping the community is a good plan, and I just thought of something: Instead of littering, pick up litter- meet at a dirty park or something and have everyone pick up trash.
In the Netherlands in thet city of Assen a group of 50 mobbers encouraged in a big department store a doll called Japie to continue climbing his rope yelling ‘you can make it Japie you can accomplish’. The mobbers brought whistles and all kinds of noisy instruments and left the customers astonished.
a mob without a purpose just to make a stunt and get attention is giving real demonstrations a bad name. Stop it if you care about what a demonstration does.
there should be a flash mob in phoenix arizona like at a theater called amc esplanade14 it on 24th street and camelback everyone hangs out there on friday nights like after movies at like 9 to 10 pm
Around noon on September 8th there will be a Flash Mob in Center City Philadelphia.
Email Flashmobphilly@yahoo.com for more information
I am looking for infomation about how i can get involved in a New York Flash Mob, I think that i have a good idea for one and would like to make it happen. Anyone have any suggestions as to what the next step is that I should take? Thanks
i am looking for information about flash mobs in madison, wisconsin. please help! i can’t seem to find any information at all…am i THAT stupid? (don’t say yes)
thanks.
flashmobbers in cleveland, ohio? anything happening here at all? besides being the source of the blackout? (thanks SO much, FirstEnergy!)
would like a list of wiless places in montreal please e-mail or pm me with info ms victoria
flash mobs in boston – where should we look for this info? email please! thanks
flashmobs are gone, long live the anti-flash mob… I am doing one right now, alone at home.
yup
Have Flash mobs died out? I didn’t even know what they were until now. Anyone want to do one in Cambridge?
These flash mobs are great. What a great way to use technology to build human solidarity among people who exist in a society where we are becoming increasingly isolated by technology…..too bad some people dont get it.
hey are there any flash mob groups in cincinnati? or do you know of anyone who has participated who lives in the general vicinity of cinci? thanks!