The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #139891 Message #3211942
Posted By: Richard Bridge
24-Aug-11 - 07:31 AM
Thread Name: Singers wanted for London FolkMob event
Subject: RE: Singers wanted for London FolkMob event
I am surprised, given that FolkMob has been established for over 20 years, that anyone should fail to see that the use of that name will immediately be taken by a whole generation of London folkies to refer to the Eltham FolkMob.
I am equally surprised that anyone should tend to defend such a misuse.
Given that the essence of the proposed event (of which I tend to approve) is not that it is a mob, but that it is a flash event, I would have thought that the obvious name was "FlashFolk" or "FolkFlash" unless the intention was to mislead.
Certainly, I clicked on the thread title expecting this thread to be about FolkMob (the Eltham lot) not this event.
I agree however that Facebook is a likely useful tool for the proposed event (or, slightly tongue in cheek - Blackberry messenger).