The Speed of Information
It probably says so0mething about how quickly information travels (or at lest how busy I’ve been lately) that I learned about the Atomic Tom story while sitting in a conference room in Bogota on Saturday. If you haven’t heard, the band Atomic Tom had their musical instruments stolen a few days ago. In response, the band put together an improvised concert using music apps on their iPhones in the New York subway system. The creative bit of street (or subway) theater was, quite naturally, filmed on an iPhone and posted it to YouTube where it immediately became an international sensation and garnered the band a whole new audience. The audience reactions in the video are priceless:
More on my trip to Bogota later this week.
