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Bill Wasik

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Bill Wasik is a senior editor of Wired Magazine, and was previously a senior editor at Harper's Magazine. He has also contributed to McSweeney's and served as Editor of The Weekly Week. Mr. Wasik revealed himself in 2006 to be the inventor of the flash mob, having anonymously organized the first recognized examples in New York City during the summer of 2003. [1][2]

Wasik is the author of And Then There's This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture (Viking, 2009). He is also the editor, with Roger D. Hodge, of Submersion Journalism: Reporting in the Radical First Person from Harper's Magazine (New Press, 2008)

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Average rating: 3.47 · 167 ratings · 49 reviews · 3 distinct works

	And Then There's This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture 3.25 avg rating — 112 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Submersion Journalism: Reporting in the Radical First Person from Harper's Magazine by Bill Wasik (Editor), Roger D. Hodge 3.89 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus by Bill Wasik, Monica Murphy (Goodreads Author) 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — expected publication 2012	My rating: