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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>echovar - Latest Comments in The Crowd Settles and Focuses on the Performance</title><link>http://echovar.disqus.com/</link><description>Cliff Gerrish on Economies, Language, Culture and the Network</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:57:09 -0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Re: The Crowd Settles and Focuses on the Performance</title><link>http://blog.echovar.com/?p=1305#comment-10691979</link><description>Crowds are funny things. With the right direction they can become a single agreeable organism. Without it they can be a chaotic risk. Over management and complete freedom can have the same effect. They take on a life of their own depending on the stimulus. They bring a lot to the party themselves sometimes. This weekend we saw how history and the alignment of details became a virtual mob scene. I tend to believe that what you put into a crowd can certainly have a lot to do with the result.</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Aron</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:57:09 -0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>