Reasons to love your local paper: Flashmobbing, not to be confused with...

I've been following my local newspaper The Surrey Comet on Twitter, ever since I was a little harsh about the balance of their reporting in a post on TheMediaBlog.co.uk.

I have since come to love the paper's Twitter stream and content. Take today's description of Kingston-Upon-Thames' first ever flashmob, it's a good read. And subject-wise it's also a good example of how social media tactics can bridge the traditional divide between diverse sections of the community and old media. So it's interesting, ironic and portentous... what more could you want in one article?

What's that you say? You also want a funny description of flashmobbing?

OK here you go:

"...a group of people make online arrangements to meet, perform an unusual act and then disperse as if nothing has happened."

Er, that's dogging, surely.