sábado, agosto 09, 2003

BBC NEWS | Technology | Technology meets the mob

BBC NEWS | Technology | Technology meets the mob: "Technology meets the mob

By Mark Ward
BBC News Online technology correspondent



The power of the crowd is starting to be tapped
The net is being used to summon up spontaneous crowds that are being put to artistic, charitable and social ends.
The craze began in New York in June.
Many of the city's net literati were invited by e-mail to take part in an art event that called itself the Mob Project.
The e-mail asked people to synchronise their watches and wait at 7pm in one of four of Manhattan's bars. "