Strange new mob scenes.

• Author: Harmon, Amy
• Position: Cyber Times - Brief Article

Why would dozens of strangers gather in a San Francisco park, play a brief game of duck duck goose, and disperse? Or stand in a London mountain, open their umbrellas, then leave? It's typically zany behavior for flash mobs, which became a minor world-wide fad this summer. Participants, instructed by cell phone or e mail to meet at a specific place, would briefly perform an activity, then flee. After the first one in mid-June in New York, hundreds of strangers in more than a dozen cities flash mobbed...