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That's very interesting. It reminds, me in a roundabout way, of protests against the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York, which were coordinated using TXTMob, a group SMS service some radical programmers had designed for the occasion (and the anti-DNC protests in Boston). One of them, Evan Henshaw-Plath, was part of the team that took the same concept commercial with Twitter a couple years later. http://online.wsj.com/articles/SB109397125926105854 http://www.counterpunch.org/2004/09/09/indymedia-and-the-text-message-jihad http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/09/technology/circuits/09mobb.html http://web.media.mit.edu/~tad/pub/txtmob_chi05.pdf http://nextgenerationlabor.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/how-txtmob-influenced-twitter http://techpresident.com/news/22775/txtmob-twitter-how-activist-tool-took-over-conventions -- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað." ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
