Comments on: Not Mob Power, but People Power http://citmedia.org/blog/2007/05/02/not-mob-power-but-people-power/ Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:40:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jeff Crigler http://citmedia.org/blog/2007/05/02/not-mob-power-but-people-power/comment-page-1/#comment-1401 Jeff Crigler Thu, 03 May 2007 15:37:18 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/2007/05/02/not-mob-power-but-people-power/#comment-1401 Call me a traditionalist, but I believe in user participation, not user control. I've chimed in in more details on my blog at the news2020project dot com. Jeff Crigler Voxant http://news2020.typepad.com/news2020_project/2007/05/on_encouraging_.html Call me a traditionalist, but I believe in user participation, not user control. I’ve chimed in in more details on my blog at the news2020project dot com.

Jeff Crigler
Voxant
http://news2020.typepad.com/news2020_project/2007/05/on_encouraging_.html

]]> By: mblair http://citmedia.org/blog/2007/05/02/not-mob-power-but-people-power/comment-page-1/#comment-1402 mblair Thu, 03 May 2007 10:43:42 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/2007/05/02/not-mob-power-but-people-power/#comment-1402 Rather than mob rule, I like to think of it as a work stoppage. It did happen on May Day after all. Plus, Digg's users that provide 99% of the value of the entire company. Realistically, they do call the shots. That said, I don't think the word "mob" necessarily has negative connotations. Definition #1 at Dictionary.com is "a disorderly or riotous crowd of people". Rather than mob rule, I like to think of it as a work stoppage. It did happen on May Day after all. Plus, Digg’s users that provide 99% of the value of the entire company. Realistically, they do call the shots.

That said, I don’t think the word “mob” necessarily has negative connotations. Definition #1 at Dictionary.com is “a disorderly or riotous crowd of people”.

]]> By: Jon Garfunkel http://citmedia.org/blog/2007/05/02/not-mob-power-but-people-power/comment-page-1/#comment-1403 Jon Garfunkel Thu, 03 May 2007 03:26:52 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/2007/05/02/not-mob-power-but-people-power/#comment-1403 Note that the Times wasn't the first to use the word "mob" on this story. <a href="http://news.google.com/news?q=mob%20digg" rel="nofollow">viddy these</a>: Information Week, InfoWorld, PC World, and even, la voz de la revolucion, TechCrunch. Note that the Times wasn’t the first to use the word “mob” on this story. viddy these: Information Week, InfoWorld, PC World, and even, la voz de la revolucion, TechCrunch.

]]> By: Joe Ranft http://citmedia.org/blog/2007/05/02/not-mob-power-but-people-power/comment-page-1/#comment-1400 Joe Ranft Thu, 03 May 2007 02:23:50 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/2007/05/02/not-mob-power-but-people-power/#comment-1400 What I find interesting about the Digg blowup is that once Kevin Rose gave up, the offending number stopped appearing on the Digg home page and other news stories started to appear again. What I find interesting about the Digg blowup is that once Kevin Rose gave up, the offending number stopped appearing on the Digg home page and other news stories started to appear again.

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