Jeff and I just received an email invitation to join the Boston City Mob. Mobs are a new phenomenon of The Connected Age, specifically the Blogging Age (so much more inferior to the great ages, like the Iron Age). Leveraging the Internet, a huge swarm of people descend on some unfortunate location for a brief period of time, overwhelming the resources at that location, just because they can. They disperse as suddenly as they appear.

Presumably, whoever sent us the invitation must have gotten our email addresses from links on Ridiculent. Are now we part of the digiterati?

If you're interested in joining the mob in Boston, sign up here. Here are some pictures of mobs in Manhattan and San Francisco.