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Anil Dash: Flash Mobs Considered Harmful
August 12th, 2003

And now for a contrarian take on the flash mob phenomenon…

Anil Dash, the VP of Business Development at SixApart, thinks that flash mobs are a trend whose time has come — and gone:

Mobs are truly the flagpole-sitting of the new millennium. As Joshua astutely observed, Flash Mobs are striking in that they are an affinity event for people who have no affinity group. A Meetup for people who like Meetups. How much more meta can it get? None. None more meta.

And now for a contrarian take on the flash mob phenomenon…
Anil Dash, the VP of Business Development at SixApart, thinks that flash mobs are a trend whose time has come — and gone:

Mobs are truly the flagpole-sitting of the new millennium. As Joshua astutely observed, Flash Mobs are striking in that they are an affinity [...]

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