…from the 802.11b weblog of Glenn Fleishman. A neologism forged in response to an interesting Infoworld article about that chalk thing that made my summer less than relaxing:
“I think you’ve been taken in by the sheer quantity of articles that have made the case against warchalking without evaluating whether people are actually chalking much at all, and how they’re using it, and whether it’s even measurable.
Warchalking was what I like to call a “pre-fad”: it was taken over by the media before it was even spotted in the wild after a single person came up with the idea on his Web site. It’s cool, it’s fun, but it’s hardly what you made it out to be, I’m afraid.”
Heh.
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