MOCHI Reading Series: Smart Mobs by Howard Rheingold 6:30pm Wednesday, August 25, 2004 411 West Hall (Ehrlicher Room) directions... Join us for what should be an interesting discussion.

Everyone is welcome to attend this event. Even if you only read part of the book, please still come, as the discussion should go beyond the material covered in the book, and be applicable to many areas of interest.

Related material on the topic:

- The Smart Mobs blog has some excellent contributions, many of them by Mr. Rheingold himself.

- The Social Tapestries (166K PDF) project from Proboscis is quite interesting.
- Raindrop: the blog for the Social Computing group at Microsoft Research
- Purse Lip Square Jaw blog
- Future Now blog
- Clay Shirky’s Internet Writings

Related books:
- The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations, by James Surowiecki
(May 2004, Amazon link)
- We the Media, by Dan Gillmor
(August 2004, Amazon link)

Here is an Amazon link to the Smart Mobs (October 2003) book.

If you'd like to send additional related material to the mailing list, please send it in an email to Dan, and he can send it out to the group.

Thanks to Cliff for the related books!