Re: [Marxism] Extreme LED shepherding

[Bob Morris <bob.morris@xxxxxxxxx>]

>
> Joaquin Bustelo wrote:
> > Now, I know some people are going to object that this is off topic
>

Ok, this is probably off topic the off topic, but

Howard Rheingold wrote the seminal book, Smart Mobs, and it's clear that
Twitter evolved out of that insight / ethos, that groups communicating in
real time are, well, smart. What might appear to be random motion and action
isn't.

The Battle of Seattle was an early indicator of that. Twitter amplifies the
ability to communicate in real time and more than a few now, including me,
find Twitter search more accurate and faster for breaking news than Google.

>From the Smart Mobs blog
http://www.smartmobs.com/2009/04/24/twitter-history-told-at-wall-street-journal/

It seems to me that Howard’s [Rheingold's] original insight which he called
“smart mobs” is proving to be a fundamental phenomenon of the 21st century.
Twittering does the smart mobbing/flocking at a granular level. Figuring it
all out is ongoing, as this highlight from the [WSJ] article shows:

“It took us a while to figure out that it really was a big deal,” says
[Twitter co-founder] Mr. Williams. It was at the annual South by Southwest
tech conference/music festival in Austin, Texas, in March 2008, that the
social power of Twitter came home to the co-founders. “I found myself
watching groups of people twittering each other to coordinate their actions
— which bar to go to, which speech to attend — and it was like seeing a
flock of birds in motion,” says [the other Twitter co-founder] Mr. Stone.
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