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Clear Blue Skies is organising a flash blog - where everyone descends on a blog and posts comments on it in a particular theme. Just hope that this doesn't get any bloggers kicked off their server for excessive cpu usage or as a denial of service attack.
London had it's first flash mob last night which almost ended up a disaster when the shop they were going to visit closed before the mob turned up! The BBC news site has mentioned the event on their front page with details here. Unfortunately I'm blogging this from Crewe library and its taking ages to do anything so I've no idea what the pictures look like.
Unfortunately the links to the sites that are mentioned in the article, the Geocities LondonMob and writer Warren Ellis's blog have had bbc'otted (as opposed to slash-dotted) and are unavailable. Warren's blog has a static page up, but it doesn't say that due to bandwidth use he's disabled the pictures. This seems a bit strange as I would have thought that a writer would want to have people read his stuff!
UpdateWarren left a comment to this post saying that the hosting company had pulled his website. It wasn't obvious this had occured as normally there is a "this site has exceeded its bandwidth allowance" notice like the Londonmobs site did. Instead his site just shows the text Space.powweb.com and the ip address. I hope he can make arrangements with the hosting company to get the site online -maybe the bbc should provide the extra money to allow it to be hosted for the rest of the month due to the traffic they sent (I assume it was their site that sent the traffic.It's certainly NOT a good way to advertise your hosting company - by saying "Hey - we pull peoples sites when they get a lot of extra bandwidth and dont explain why")
I got an invite to join the Birmingham Mobsters yesterday - for more information visit the.mob_stirs homepage.
Poor CheeseBikini got knocked offline when he was quoted in a slash dot article. Although its not suprising that his server couldn't cope with the load, what is suprising is that it took this long before flash mobs gained the attention of slashdot. I've picked it up and even the BBC Website has run articles on it in the past!
The other suprising thing is why people still continue to read slashdot. With the amount of servers that get /.'ed its amazing that readers don't get frustrated with all the sites which get pulled offline. I know I'd stop reading a newsletter where every post came back with a 404 error.
Joe Gratz attended the mob, with more coverage from the star tribune This mob was a back-to-back with two mobs within the space of half an hour. Makes it a good idea if you've travelled a distance. Something over in 5 minutes would be over too quickly.Pics at the main web site
BIROCO.COM knows about the flash mob that is being organised in Birmingham (thats the UK and not Alabama) although he doesn't give out the details. Its a shame the Birmingham is just a little too far to go to for a 5 minute event....Should be worth keeping an eye out for pictures and news storys though.
Write up with amusing photo's at cheesebikini for the San Fransisco mob. More photos are also on that site.
It looked really cool and reminds me of something that I saw in a tent once at a festival - organised crowd surfing - where groups of people lifted someone up in the air above their heads for ten seconds at a time....now that could be a laugh for a mass mob.....crowd surfing!
