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Grafedia is:
- Multimedia graffiti
- An act of anonymous, artistic sharing
- Words written anywhere, then linked online
- The latest form of interactive media
Grafedia is hyperlinked text, written by hand onto physical surfaces and linking to rich media content – images, video, sound files, and so forth.
This form of artistic graffiti can be written anywhere – on walls, in the streets, on sidewalks, in letters or postcards, on your body as tattoos, or anywhere you feel like putting it.
What turns “regular” graffiti into Grafedia is the blue line that’s placed under it. That blue line signals that there’s more about this particular piece of artwork online. (Get it?… a blue underline, that’s similar to hyperlinked text in the Web world.)
Those on the cutting edge of interactive technology are eating this up. It’s largely an “underground” kind of thing. For the most part, grafedia is intended for an audience of insiders… those who hear about it from blogs and others who are doing it.
People are using Grafedia in the following ways:
- as a promotional tool
- as a form of artistic expression
- as a form of networking
- as a calling card
I got my first computer in 1986 and immediately started writing, saving documents, and organizing my entire life on it. Thus began my love affair with gadgets and all things tech. I built my first website in 1998 in old-school HTML code — before websites were "a thing". Blogs weren't invented yet. It was the same year that Google was born. My husband and I created TheFunTimesGuide.com in 2004 — before YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, and Mashable were launched. That was the year Facebook started and 'blog' was the Word of the Year according Merriam-Webster. Ever since then, anytime a new electronic gadget hits the market… I have to have it. (My husband's impulsive nature to try out every new tech gadget invented is even worse than mine!) When I'm not trying out fun new tech gadgets, you'll find me at the corner of Good News & Fun Times as publisher of The Fun Times Guide (32 fun & helpful websites).
