Of course we're doing this wrong.

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There's certainly nothing wrong with sending an email message to these Grafedia examples, but that's not exactly the intended method of contact. What we're supposed to do is find these cute messages on the street and then, captivated by the fact that there's a sort-of hyperlink in front of us, "click" on it by sending a message via our cellphones to the "found_word@grafedia.net", after which the additional, requested information is delivered straight to our cellphones. Would doing that, and getting in return a small photo of something that doesn't really seem to explain much, feel different than having the same thing happen via our email? To tell the truth, I have my doubts. Strangely, neither Wired News, nor the designers of Grafedia trace its ancestry to perhaps its most obvious predecessor.

Again, perhaps among those over 2000 images (only a handful of examples are on the web site) there are some more interesting examples waiting to be discovered, but even with the aid of the immediacy of "being there" and making contact via a cellphone, there's something a bit disappointing in this experiment.

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