Platial News and Neogeography

This morning's poor performance, hang tight.

After a double whammy of traffic sources this morning, we are dealing with some internal code that should solve the issue once and for all.

The hits are coming from Daily Candy and USA Today's Pop Candy blog.

Platial on NPR's All Things Considered

Elizabeth Blair asks Jason and Di-Ann, Sylviakulack, Jeff Jarvis and more about skateboarding, memories and ruins on maps.

Update:Kai and scootdown posted the direct link to the media file (real and windows media versions). Thanks.

Welcome Wired Readers!

Greetings to all the Wired readers,

Thanks for the traffic, we appreciate it! However, our little robots are trying to cram you through a small pipe.

You may get a couple of errors when browsing the site, we're zealously working on the problem at this moment. Next week, we will be moving to our new servers, which will help with some of these issues.

We appreciate your patience, and thanks for checking out Platial.

--jake

Franz Ferdinand Links to Platial!

The Death Cab for Cutie and Franz Ferdinand tour map Paiges made on Platial has been linked to from the official Franz Ferdinand fan site.

We are SO EXCITED! (Sorry, didn't mean to shout.)

We can't wait to see fans' concert pictures and stories show up on the map. Thanks for the link, guys.

PSU Vanguard gabs about Platial's Jacob Olsen

Mostly positioned as a feel good alumni riff, this article on the paper's website does actually seem to get the right vibe about what we are about and what we are trying to accomplish. The article also echoes a concern that I've had about documenting street art and graffiti, the fact that the information may end up playing too large a role in the removal of the oft undervalued expressions of these otherwise unheard voices. After adding a few pieces that i really appreciate, i realized that using the exact locations may not be the best idea, and in fact also takes a lot of the fun out of going to look for this stuff. Some other people have been talking about placing areas instead of just points to Platial, and now i see the point. Being able to simply mark the general area of the work may turn out to be the best solution.

On a side note, even i/whenf the work is buffed over time, Platial works as an archive of the ongoing efforts of young artists to leave their mark on the visual consciousness of their city-mates but also as an archive for The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal.