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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."
Not that anyone ever saw real examples of it.
"For a Good Time, text 443544"
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
$> look building
You see an email address scrawled on the bricks.
$>grafitti email address
You get some nice pop art in return.
$>look light pole
You see an adhesive arrow.
$>look adhesive arrow.
You find the key to neaby building!
$>use key on door
You unlock the door.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-- Pablo Picasso
Am I the only one feeling that only a minute amount of graffiti fits into the first category?
The campaign to counter all those idiot vandal grafitti advertisers should be titled:
"Say it. Don't spray it."
"My God...it's full of trolls!"
but I don't want to text "goatse" and get any "pop art" while walking around downtown.
Graffiti is not art, it is vandalism. Anything that encourages it should be outlawed.
I know that their are possible legitimate uses, but vandalism centric services really should not exist.
Eye-spam is just as bad as other spam.
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
Pay for a crappy service that invites people to vandalism and will probably only be used by corporate 'underground' marketing? No thanks.
Makes me wonder how some things get accepted to slashdot. Then I thought about it and it became crystal clear. If you want a story accepted onto slashdot, you have to buy hookers for the editors.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
This is not a followup and it hasn't caught on.
This is a textbook example of the kind of marketing I read about in an earlier article. I can't find it now, but the example used was the phrase "suits are in".
The idea is, you feed this kind of information to dozens of different news sources' fashion, entertainment, life, news departments. Three to five of them will run stories which will read basically the same:
Catchy lede paragraph
Information about the product
Quotes from the manufacturer
Quotes from an industry group
Anecdotes from users
Catchy summation
This is standard marketing practice and not much more. Once you know the format, you can spot many of these articles. However, I can't find the original source on the "suits are in" marketing expose - does anyone have it?
We recently had heard in the office over one of the Yellow Machine that's made by Anthology Solutions.
You have been eaten by a grue.