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Flashier Mobs?
A lot has been written about technologies, such as Facebook Causes in bringing people together and rightly so, it’s an excellent platform. Fast forward to a world of rich profiles and location awareness. At what point does the cost of identifying and bringing together like-minds in a crowd become so low as to be deemed trivial? In what contexts will the process be sufficiently automated/rapid that a significant % of ‘mobsters will be unsure what they’re mobbing about? (via Future Perfect)
Published on October 5, 2009 4:56 pm.
Filed under: Uncategorized Tags: contexts, crowd, Facebook, location awareness, people
The photos below are taken from a series of photographs by Life Magazine photographer John Olson of seventies-era rock musicians at home with their parents.
I glean great pleasure in imagining the conversation between David Crosby and his father shortly after this photo was taken.
It’s not only the contrasts that make these striking, but also the [...]
Published on January 29, 2009 9:31 pm.
Filed under: Ephemera, Links Tags: contexts, contrasts, photographs