last year it was the Runaway Bride...

Update: There is a discussion here
about whether this story will rate for Wikepedia.

Note how on the original post (the first below, by the aggrieved) how many servers crashed when he tried to set up a forum.

Meme: an idea, project, statement or even a question that is posted by one blog and responded to by other blogs.

I think this may be a pop-culture watermark.

16 year old girl steals cell phone, takes pictures of herself which are uploaded to the victim's account. Victim's friend finds the thief's myspace account, offers reward for the return of the phone and gets nothing but verbal abuse in return.

So he sets up this page and stays up 48 or 72 hours stoking up public outrage.

This is in NYC.

Half the blogosphere seems to be onto this.

Here is the mob , telling the girl to give back the phone.

And of course, they might even have the wrong person! We're just RE-learning about human nature here, via a new medium.

I suppose this will be hitting the national media. The blogger notes that he's being contacted by a lot of reporters now. And to think! He started this on June 7th, it appears.

If you are interested in cultural anthropology, here are the artifacts themselves, passed on to you as real as ever, like moon rocks only ubiquitous. Like earth rocks, only fascinating.