That graffiti in the subway might really be a hyperlink

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A hyperlink knows no depth

A hyperlink knows no depth 08/20/2002 10:13 AM

Hyperlink hyperbole

Hyperlink hyperbole 12/24/2004 12:50 PM
Jeremy Zawodny is scratching his head over an odd thread in the Slate/Washington Post coverage:

I'm catching up on e-mail as my flight is delayed in O'Hare and came across the following tidbit about Slate Magazine in the latest Edupage mailing: "Although the magazine only recently achieved break-even status on revenue of about $6 million per year, Slate won a National Magazine Award for its editorial content, and mainstream news organizations frequently cite it. The publication is also given credit for shaping Web publishing and introducing the use of hyperlinks and Web logs." (Emphasis mine.) Am I reading that right? Edupage wants me to believe that Slate is responsible for introducing hyperlinks to the world? I'm having a very, very hard time believing that. Am I alone?

No, Jeremy, you're not alone. The source of this odd statement is almost certainly David Carr's New York Times piece, which included the following passage: "Although Slate has never achieved steady profitability, it is credited with helping to shape Web publishing as well as pioneering the use of hyperlinks and Web logs."

Carr's "pioneering" was marginally closer to reality than Edupage's feeble substitution of "introducing." But neither is particularly correct.

I sincerely doubt anyone at Slate would have claimed to have introduced either hyperlinks or blogs to the world. Slate was in fact rather shy of linking for the longest time -- in the early days, the links in each article were typically segregated in a little afterword section. As for blogs, Slate gave Mickey Kaus's blog a home at a time when, quite possibly, only three people in the Washington Post newsroom knew what a blog was; but at the same time, blogs were already a widespread format, and widely known to the web-aware world.

Slate deserves tons of credit for many things; after a lot of false starts in the first few years, it became quite adept at devising creative Web-native formats for writers (like the e-mail exchanges). But "pioneering the use of hyperlinks and Web logs" is just not an accurate statement.

I imagine Carr meant to write something more like "The publication is also given credit for raising the profile of hyperlinks and blogs in the media and government circles that constitute some of its core readership." Or if he didn't, he should have.

Hyperlink Usability

Hyperlink Usability 05/22/2004 12:50 AM

Design Guidelines for Visualizing Links: A lot of really good guidelines for hyperlink usability that really boil down to one point: do links the way HTML was built to handle them and you won't have any problems. Ninety-nine percent of usability problems on the Net are a result of people trying to get cute.

Don't underline any text that's not a link, even if your links aren't underlined. Reserve underlining for links. Because underlines provide a strong perceived affordance of clickability, users will be confused and disappointed if underlined text doesn't have an actual affordance to match this perception.

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A Hyperlink Offering

A Hyperlink Offering 09/25/2002 06:11 PM
Prompted by recent debate over XHTML 2.0's invention of HLink, Achilles and the tortoise meet to discuss the use of linking in W3C specifications.

Hyperlink Meta Clutter

Hyperlink Meta Clutter 12/04/2002 08:21 PM
Over at Web Voice there's some discussion of an issue that Y! Finance and Y! News deal with constantly--how much "related" information about a keyword, topic, story, person, etc. is too much? Does it belong in-line or off to the...

Hyperlink Decoration Remover Add-in for
FrontPage

Hyperlink Decoration Remover Add-in for
FrontPage 12/02/2003 12:26 AM
Hyperlink Decoration Remover, a 3rd party add-in for FrontPage, adds an embedded style sheet to selected page(s) that will remove the underline from hyperlinks.No HTML hand-coding required!

Patent spending Pop-ups, the hyperlink -
the unlikely patents that govern the net

Patent spending Pop-ups, the hyperlink -
the unlikely patents that govern the net 07/26/2004 10:40 AM
BBC Jul 26 2004 1:37PM GMT

CSS Working Drafts: 'Reader' Media Type,
Hyperlink Presentation

CSS Working Drafts: 'Reader' Media Type,
Hyperlink Presentation 03/06/2004 01:50 AM
2004-02-25: The CSS Working Group has released two First Public Working Drafts, parts of the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) language. The CSS 'Reader' Media Type instructs devices to display and speak a document or display and render it in braille. The CSS3 Hyperlink Presentation Module describes the presentation of links and their activation. Comments on both drafts are invited. Visit the CSS home page. (News archive)

Graffiti Archeaology

Graffiti Archeaology 12/20/2003 01:23 PM
Graffiti Archaeology Pretty cool flash app that lets you view photos of the same walls in San Francisco over time, as the many layers of graffiti accumulate. To anyone that has ever ridden the Caltrain, a lot of these walls should look familiar.

Poliisi Graffiti

Poliisi Graffiti 12/25/2003 04:20 PM

FC Now: Graffiti Goes Commercial

FC Now: Graffiti Goes Commercial 09/15/2004 11:25 AM
The New York Post reports that McDonald's has enlisted the legendary graffiti team Tats Cru to develop wall murals designed to appeal to urban Latino...

graffiti archaeology

graffiti archaeology 01/16/2004 11:31 AM

Very cool work by Cassidy Curtis.

Graffiti Archaeology is the study of graffiti-covered walls as they change over time. The grafarc.org project is a timelapse collage, made of photos of San Francisco graffiti taken by many different photographers from 1998 to the present.

Using the grafarc explorer, you can visit some of San Francisco's classic spots, see what they looked like in the past, and explore how they have changed over the years.

via danah boyd (her site is down right now)

It's Not Graffiti, It's Grafedia

It's Not Graffiti, It's Grafedia 03/25/2005 06:35 AM
Next time you see blue underlined text painted in a public place, think twice. Chances are it's part of an interactive project that links public scrawlings to images retrievable by e-mail or cell phone. By Rachel Metz.

Graffiti Archaeology

Graffiti Archaeology 12/18/2003 01:04 AM
Eric Rodenbeck and Cassidy Curtis have created a masterful timelapse photographic collage of various San Francisco graffiti sites to show how these urban canvases have changed over the last five years. It's a design tour de force. Link

Boris Graffiti 3.0

Boris Graffiti 3.0 12/16/2003 09:59 PM
The only integrated titling product to deliver broadcast-quality vector title and graphics animation inside Final Cut Pro.

Reverse Graffiti

Reverse Graffiti 06/27/2004 10:50 PM

War on litter and graffiti urged

War on litter and graffiti urged 07/28/2004 06:21 AM
Tougher penalties and zero tolerance are needed to tackle environmental crimes ranging from fly-tipping to graffiti, MPs urge.

Grafedia Elevates Graffiti To Art

Grafedia Elevates Graffiti To Art 03/25/2005 11:14 PM

Classic British graffiti

Classic British graffiti 12/02/2003 10:14 PM
Classic British graffiti. None of yer spraycans and colours, mate - a black biro's all you need. And if the pen is truly mightier than the sword, then the British obviously wield their weapons best when they're sitting comfortably. (From b3ta, which also hosts the classic "Argentine football team with handbags" picture)

"Digging Down Deep for Graffiti"

"Digging Down Deep for Graffiti" 12/27/2003 08:57 PM

Digging Down Deep for Graffiti

Digging Down Deep for Graffiti 12/27/2003 06:36 AM
A new website, Graffiti Archaeology, aims to chronicle the ever-changing walls of San Francisco. By Noah Shachtman.

Hektor: the graffiti robot

Hektor: the graffiti robot 01/27/2004 11:32 AM
For the extremely geeky (or perhaps extremely lazy) tagger, a graffiti spray painting "robot" called Hektor. Read [Thanks, Paul]...

anti-graffiti paint

anti-graffiti paint 11/01/2003 05:17 AM

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Graffiti 'holds cities to ransom'

Graffiti 'holds cities to ransom' 08/01/2004 08:25 PM
Graffiti is costing councils in England £27m a year to combat, the Keep Britain Tidy group is warning.

Graffiti Group Kidnaps Cow, But Is It
Art? (Reuters)

Graffiti Group Kidnaps Cow, But Is It
Art? (Reuters) 08/19/2004 07:37 AM
Reuters - Swedish graffiti artists kidnapped a fiber-glass cow from the international art exhibit CowParade, held power drills to its head and threatened to "sacrifice" it unless the sculptures were declared "non-art."

STOP BUSH graffiti postcards

STOP BUSH graffiti postcards 09/22/2004 06:16 AM
Cory Doctorow: These guys are selling picture postcards of STOP BUSH graffiti around New York, and donating the funds to the Democratic party. Link (Thanks, Eric!)

Cameras to prevent rail graffiti

Cameras to prevent rail graffiti 01/27/2004 04:42 AM
Motion-sensitive cameras that emit audible warnings are being used to try to keep graffiti vandals away from the railways.

Graffiti daubed on boy's memorial

Graffiti daubed on boy's memorial 09/04/2004 11:53 AM
Graffiti mocking the controversial death of a Protestant teenager is removed by nationalists.

A Graffiti Legend Is Back on the Street

A Graffiti Legend Is Back on the Street 04/17/2005 09:20 PM
Revs, once a legendary graffiti artist, has reincarnated himself in a way few of his fans ever expected, as a legitimate and (mostly) law-abiding sculptor.

Graffiti Culture Issue 2 by *tangledweb

Graffiti Culture Issue 2 by *tangledweb 03/16/2003 12:44 AM

Inverse graffiti: use cleaning solvent,
not paint

Inverse graffiti: use cleaning solvent,
not paint 06/28/2004 05:07 AM
A Yorkshire graffiti writer has come up with a really clever writing technique: he lays a template with his tag over a dirty wall, then sprays the template with solvent, leaving behind a clean patch bearing his message. It's inverse graffiti -- he's selectively cleaning up dirty walls.

He decided to commercialize the process and tagged Smirnoff ads in Leeds, and that's where he got into trouble: he's been ordered to "remove" the clean patch of wall and get rid of the ad. Link (via /.)

PalmOne overturns Xerox Graffiti patent

PalmOne overturns Xerox Graffiti patent 05/24/2004 06:03 AM
The Register May 24 2004 10:29AM GMT

Website Defacers - the Graffiti Artists
of the Internet?

Website Defacers - the Graffiti Artists
of the Internet? 01/15/2003 01:42 AM
WebmasterBase Jan 15 2003 0:13AM ET

Helicopters Used to Catch Graffiti
Artists (Reuters)

Helicopters Used to Catch Graffiti
Artists (Reuters) 04/11/2005 07:53 AM
Reuters - The German government said on Friday it had started deploying police helicopters equipped with infrared cameras to catch graffiti artists at night despite criticism they are grossly over-reacting.

Helicopters chase graffiti artists
(Reuters)

Helicopters chase graffiti artists
(Reuters) 04/08/2005 12:22 PM
Reuters - The German government says it has started deploying police helicopters equipped with infrared cameras to catch graffiti artists at night despite criticism they are grossly over-reacting.

Silly Patent Of The Day: Adobe Hit With
Lawsuit Over Hyperlink Patent

Silly Patent Of The Day: Adobe Hit With
Lawsuit Over Hyperlink Patent 07/08/2004 05:05 PM
I think it's about time we came up with a new topic/icon for stupid patents. There are just so many of them these days. The latest is that Adobe, who is no stranger to abusing intellectual property rules, is now being hit with a patent over their PDF technology. The patent is for a method of extracting network information via hyperlinks. Reading through the patent, they're basically describing a system for clicking on a hyperlinking and having the system not only download the page in question, but all locally related pages linked from that page as well. Perhaps a useful system, but it seems like this sort of technology was around well before the patent was granted, and it's unclear what it has to do with PDF files.

In the subway

In the subway 01/07/2004 06:22 PM
Listening to NPR this morning as I struggled to regain enough of my consciousness to stumble into the shower, I heard Colson Whitehead read a...

The subway centennial

The subway centennial 05/04/2004 03:11 PM

You have until the end of the year to check out the New York Public Library's exhibit, The Subway at 100: General William Barclay Parsons and the Birth of the NYC Subway, but why wait?

Celebrating the centennial of the opening of the New York City subway system in 1904, this exhibition both salutes William Barclay Parsons, the first chief engineer of the subway, and recognizes the importance of the subway system to the life and growth of the city.

Sounds great, and since the subway is one of my favorite things about New York City, I'm keen to learn more about its construction and history. I'm adding this exhibit to my to-do list.

NYC Subway Centennial

NYC Subway Centennial 12/09/2003 06:10 PM
New York's Subway turns 100 years old in 2004. All of us NYers have at least one subway story... what's yours? A few historical links here, here and here.
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