Finland's Smart Mobs
   Howard Rheingold: Helsinki's Aula.The Aula community in Helsinki and
   cyberspace is still my favorite smart mob - five hundred Finns who
   design and use mobile media to flock and blog, socialize and
   collaborate in geographic and virtual places simultaneously. When I
   spent an evening in June, 2002 with some of the Aula members, I had the
   opportunity to hang out in the "urban living room for the networked
   society" they were still constructing when I first met them, a year
   previously.
   Howard's upcoming book, "Smart Mobs", has been getting lots of press
   lately including this piece in the Washington Post. I visited Aula just
   before it opened a year ago, and was dazzled by its founders' ideas.
   Howard has captured perfectly what's happening there.
   The smart mobs notion is going to turn into a meme. Count on it.
   [1]http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1382[2]/

References

   1. http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1382/
   2. http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1382/