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Graffiti Bridges Worlds for Cell User

babokd wrote with a follow up to a piece we ran about the phenomenon of Grafedia, graffiti with links to the internet. The idea has caught on, and 'a communion of the real world with the Internet' may become more and more common. From the article: "It's all around you -- and not just in the phone lines and cables running under the streets or in the airborne Wi-Fi streams....If you send a text message to an e-mail address scrawled in paint on a subway advertisement or on a sidewalk, for example, you could get some digital pop art on your phone in return. An adhesive arrow on a telephone pole could hold the key to the history of a nearby building."

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  1. for a good time, call... by johnrpenner · · Score: 2, Interesting


    how's this any different
    than scrawling a phone number
    on a bathroom stall?

  2. Nah. Not happening. by Animats · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Remember "Warchalking"? "Sousveillance"? This is another one of those one-person "trends" that Tired hypes up to justify their self-image of "cool".

    Texting to an autoresponder - yeah, cool. Would you like spam with that?