LinkNYC: The Unnamed Road to Porno?
I get why someone might ask LinkNYC where they can find porno. But why would anyone ask LinkNYC where they could find an "Unnamed Road"? An easy place to leave the body?
Making Artistic Use Of LinkNYC’s Non-Working Tablet Screens
LinkNYC's tablet screens often do not work. I endeavor to prove that a blank screen is more inspiring than a blinking one.
A LinkNYC Headline From Hell, and Other Thoughts
LinkNYC's Headlines: You can't click on them, you can't scan a barcode for more information, and after a few seconds they disappear and you might not ever see them again.
Is LinkNYC Making Money Yet? It Doesn’t Look Like It.
LinkNYC, the "payphone of the future", is looking to the federal government's EB-5 program to get foreign investors to pump money into the seemingly unprofitable program.
This Week’s LinkNYC Observations
Having last written an account of trying to understand LinkNYC’s new bus arrival time feature I now suspect it has been removed from the kiosks altogether, after just a few days of appearing on what was said to be all 1000+ kiosks in the city.
LinkNYC’s Bus Arrival Time Feature is a Smart City Headache
LinkNYC's bus arrival time screens appear to have been developed by people who do not use use the bus, for people people who do not use the bus.
LinkNYC’s Mapping App: What Have People Been Searching For?
I don't know if this is boring to others but I find it fascinating to see what other LinkNYC users have been looking for on the mapping app, not least because we're not supposed to be able to do that.
LinkNYC’s Bugged-Out Mapping App Saves Your Searches… Sometimes
People look at me using LinkNYC kiosks and I know what they are thinking: He's poor. He's homeless. He's a crusty. I'm just doing my thing, man.
LinkNYC: Speedtest, The Path To Porn Revisited, And More
The Path To Porn via LinkNYC kiosk tablets was not fully closed, I discovered. I followed a hunch and the next thing I knew I was looking at trannie scat porn on a LinkNYC tablet screen out on a city sidewalk.
Living on LinkNYC
My sudden interest in using LinkNYC kiosks led me to discover that the mapping app no longer works as advertised.
Drumming Up the Links
Call quality on LinkNYC kiosks is generally very bad, and has actually gotten worse in recent months since CityBridge, the company that owns the kiosks, has decided to set a majority of the devices so the volume can only be turned up half way. I tried making calls from kiosks in noisy spots and found…
Two Years of LinkNYC
It has been a couple of years since CityBridge commenced its raid of New York City’s sidewalks with its so-called “payphone of the future”, the 10-foot tall electronic billboard monoliths known as LinkNYC. The LinkNYC platform is, first and foremost, an advertising platform. But the kiosks also offer a number of public amenities, such as…
212-477-3063 Revisited
The phone number 212-477-3063 seems to be showing up on a lot of people's CallerID. What is it again?
LinkNYC: Really Beautifying the Neighborhood
Some of New York's LinkNYC kiosks have taken to blasting a sort of visual noise that might drive anyone insane if they looked at it too long. Imagine having this right outside your living room window, as some New Yorkers now do.
LinkNYC Back to Beta?
For about a day it was possible to relive the glory days of accessing smut from the streets of New York City using a LinkNYC kiosk.
LinkNYC: Coming Soon To A Sidewalk Near You?
As announced, it looks like the LinkNYC program really will introduce numerous kiosks, potentially thousands of them, where no payphones had ever existed.
Times Square Busker Heard Through a LinkNYC Device
This is the first decent quality recording I've made of a New York City street musician as heard through a LinkNYC device.
LinkNYC: No Free Phone Calls Today
Did someone at Citybridge forget to pay their Vonage bill? Almost every number I attempted to dial from LinkNYC devices today failed.
LinkNYC: Trying Again To Make Some Phone Calls
I made one last pass at seeing how many phone calls I attempted to make through LinkNYC's free phone calling feature actually connected. Results were as expected, but I turned up a few surprises along the way.
LinkNYC’s Free Phone Calls: They Sorta Kinda Work
One of LinkNYC's marquee features is its ability to make free phone calls within the United States. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
This Kid Probably Has No Idea His Payphone Is Going Away
Thanks to all who reached out to me after my brief spot on CBS Sunday Morning. The correspondences have been gratifying, to say the least. Phone booth photos from across the country are coming soon to this space but for now here are more thoughts on the rollout of LinkNYC, the so-called "payphone of the future", on Broadway in Astoria, Queens.
Living on the LinkNYC (It’s BETA!)
He was absolutely screaming into the LinkNYC free phone. The person he was talking to screamed back. Both sides of the conversation could be heard by all.
LinkNYC Coming To Astoria?
These orange pylons and tangled metal bars seem to suggest that LinkNYC will soon rise up in Astoria, Queens, replacing payphones and delivering much-needed advertising to the area.
This “Free Wi-Fi Payphone” is a Portal to Nowhere.
Phantom vestiges of a 2012 program to equip NYC's payphones with free WiFi still linger on city streets.
Putting the “UG” in UGLY. LinkNYC Begins its Raid of Woodside, Queens.
Uglyass LinkNYC Monoliths Are Uglifying the Already Non-Beautiful Stretch of Queens Boulevard in Woodside, Queens.
Vandals To All Who Care: “We Need More Pay Phones”
There is nothing funny about a missing person poster. But I had to laugh when I saw that someone used one such sign to share their thoughts on a matter near and dear to me, and perhaps to readers of this web site.
NBC’s I-Team on LinkNYC: Broken Promises
NBC New York's I-Team claims Brooklyn is a "digital desert." Who knew? Journalism at its finest... not.
Is LinkNYC Coming to Times Square?
The sudden absence of payphones at Times Square suggests that Links are coming. Does the advertising-engulfed Times Square need this? Does anybody?