The internet loves a trend.

Perhaps we've run out of new things to get excited about. That's the sort of impression I get after a rather close examination of this phenomenon. It's hard not to question whether Grafedia truly merits such an enthusiastic review in Wired News. And not one review, but even a second article! The hype is rather thick. At the end of the first report, for instance, we learn that:

Such digital signposts to interactive experiences are likely just the beginning as access to the internet becomes more ubiquitous, Grafedia's Geraci said.

"The boundaries of what we think of as the world wide web are arbitrary," he said. "The web can be anything, anywhere."

This most certainly sounds very promising, until we perhaps send email messages to a handful of Grafedia examples and find that all we (rather instantaneously) get in return is a small photo that hardly explains anything about what generated our query in the first place (if we didn't already know), and also doesn't seem particularly convincing as art either. If, as the Wired News article tells us (as of June of this year):

More than 2,000 images have been uploaded to the Grafedia server since it went online in December

would it be too much to ask the people behind Grafedia (or perhaps Wired News) to post a few more interesting examples, if these actually exist, on their web site?

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