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Pariser sits at the nexus of what Howard Rheingold would call a smart mob. Rheingold, a veteran technology watcher and well-published futurist (Tools for Thought, 1985; Virtual Reality, 1991; The Virtual Community, 1993), has put his finger on yet another transformative technology. In Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution (Perseus; 288 pages) he describes how large, geographically dispersed groups connected only by thin threads of communications technology--cell phones, text messaging, two-way pagers, e-mail, websites--can be drawn together at a moment's notice like schools of fish to perform some collective action...
...action doesn't have to be political or ever take to the streets. More than 400,000 antiwar protesters last Wednesday jammed switchboards in the White House and Congress with a flood of phone calls, faxes and e-mails in what was billed as the first nationwide virtual demonstration. On the same day in Rio de Janeiro, according to Brazilian authorities, a jailed Brazilian druglord known as Fernandinho Beira-Mar coordinated a round of riots, bombs and bus burnings from his prison cell using a smuggled cell phone...
Monica mania is no longer a secret hoarded by European cinephiles. In this year's avidly awaited sequels to The Matrix, she plays Persephone, Queen of the Virtual World. She will be Mary Magdalene in Mel Gibson's Jesus film, The Passion. But why wait? Tears, a smart, sturdy war film with a lot of heart and a little cleavage, opens this week. And in the art houses there's more, much more of Bellucci in Gaspar Noe's defiantly lurid Irreversible, in which, for nine minutes, her character endures the most brutal rape scene in movie history...
...company's website. He heads to the mall. To be more precise, he gets help peddling his petals from two of the largest malls on the Internet, shopping areas at Yahoo.com and MSN.com that, like their bricks-and-mortar counterparts, put lots of different stores under one (virtual) roof. While teaming up with a mega-portal to help boost business is not new, the terms of the deals have changed, and that's altering the business equation for retailers and the shopping experience for customers...
...Francisco's cozy Cole Valley neighborhood. "I spent all morning fighting evil," says the soft-spoken computer programmer, who founded a modest electronic mailing list for local San Francisco events in 1995 that has spread to 17 other cities, from Phoenix, Ariz., to Boston, and evolved into a virtual community drawing more than a million visitors a month. Through its online classified ads, racy personals and raucous discussion groups, Craig's List craigslist.org has become the best one-stop-shopping place for everything from jobs and housing to yoga lessons and one-night stands...