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January 17, 2005

Carry Blue Chalk for Your Hypertext

by Scott Rettberg · , 9:41 pm

Hey this is a cool project: Grafedia is attempting to write a hypertext on the streets of New York. All it takes is a picture cellfone and some magic chalk. Like the Yellow Arrow project, the idea of this project is that people mark things as significant in the physical world, and then to remark them in cyberspace. Grafedia encourages users to upload images, audio and video. To make Grafedia, you simply write a word (with a blue underline) somewhere in the world, and then email a corresponding media file to (that word)@grafedia.net. This makes me want to get one of them newfangled mobile phone things with video capabilities. Via Turbulence.

One Response to “Carry Blue Chalk for Your Hypertext”

Paolo Says:
January 26th, 2005 at 4:45 pm
I like it… Grafedia in Brighton, England