Those people reading this website that know me, know that I am responsible for flashmob.com. For far too long I let it sit as a hull of a website without serving as anything useful to anyone but spammers (who made good use of the unmoderated forum page).
The problem was not so much that I was lazy, but that I couldn’t think of doing anything that might help someone out that was either trying to join or start a flash mob. Kevin Hawkins had tried providing people with an easy SMS interface and message scheduling but it seemed like either people weren’t interested or didn’t understand the interface.
Almost from the very beginning I thought it might be nice to just let people post their information with very little editorial oversight or moderation, but I quickly turned that idea down because I thought it would get hijacked immediately by spammers.
Years have passed since those initial ideas and recently I realized that incoming messages could be filtered using the spam filter that does such a great of sorting my email. So I quickly hacked together an implementation of what I call a mob-blog, not to be confused with a moblog (a.k.a. mobile weblog). The results are live now.
