{"id":1534,"date":"2004-03-15T19:15:59","date_gmt":"2004-03-15T19:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=1534"},"modified":"2004-03-15T19:15:59","modified_gmt":"2004-03-15T19:15:59","slug":"flashmobs-with-a-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2004\/03\/flashmobs-with-a-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashmobs with a purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flashmobbing has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/mt-archives\/cat_world.php#001612\">morphed<\/a> yet again.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIn Spain today, thousands gathered in the streets demanding answers from their government about this week&#8217;s deadly terrorist attacks in Madrid. Bloggers in Spain tell BoingBoing the gatherings were decentralized &#8220;flash mobs&#8221;, organized primarily by short text messages sent via Internet-capable mobile devices, and online in chatrooms and weblog forums.<\/p>\n<p>Around 6PM local time in Madrid, an estimated 3,000-5,000 protesters gathered spontaneously in front of the headquarters of Spain&#8217;s ruling Popular Party (Partido Popular, or PP), located on calle Genova. Participants shouted slogans against media manipulation, and carried signs asking, &#8220;Who did it?&#8221;. Flashmobs spread by SMS throughout the country, with parallel gatherings quickly emerging in other cities. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lots more info found at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2004\/03\/13\/flashmobs_with_a_pur.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">boingboing link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flashmobbing has morphed yet again. In Spain today, thousands gathered in the streets demanding answers from their government about this week&#8217;s deadly terrorist attacks in Madrid. Bloggers in Spain tell BoingBoing the gatherings were decentralized &#8220;flash mobs&#8221;, organized primarily by short text messages sent via Internet-capable mobile devices, and online in chatrooms and weblog forums. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-1534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}