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Develop an Invisible Graffiti application for mobile Editor’s note:
phones. Utilising GPS, any adolescent struck with Wayne Hemingway
either an amusing observation about a building, or the was particularly
desperate urge to tag their whereabouts, would be unimpressed by this
encouraged to commit their thoughts to text message idea: ‘No wonder there
(or a simple paint package on an image phone). Any was a dot com crash.
Ideas like this
439other young person with the application running on affected my pension.’
their phone would be sent the message or daubing as
they passed the same location at a later date.
Dan Friedman
25 April 2003
Publish meeting places on a daily basis in national or localEditor’s note:
newspapers. Whether a park bench, a coffee shop or a There is an
gallery, the places would provide the lonely or curious withunderground/Internet
somewhere to go where they would be likely to meet other movement that is
people at an equally loose end. Conversation at these sometimes referred to
designated rendezvous points would be relatively easy to as ‘swarming’ that
works in a similar
440strike up as those present could always start with fashion. This was
responsible for an
unfeasibly large
something like, ‘Did you read about this in...?’ If popular, crowd of strangers
arriving on mass at a
the newspapers could charge a fee to cafés, theatres, branch of DFS
galleries and the like for their selection on a particular day. somewhere in the
country.
David Owen
26 April 2003
