*As anyone can see at a glance, Aram Bartholl's "Dead Drops" project serves as a rough barometer of public interest in tech-art. That's because it's built through grass-roots, distributed effort. For the network to exist, someone has to have heard about the project on the Internet, and they have to have enough committed interest to go out in the street and install a Dead Drop.
*Note the heavy coastal involvement in traditional urban centers of media production, the typically American 'flyover zone,' etc.
*The Dead Drops project was inaugurated in New York at a hackerspace, and with legendary New York urban density you'd expect a high density of Dead Drops there.
*However, palmy, scattered Los Angeles has zoomed past New York, with more Dead Drops than any other American city.
*Los Angeles has more Dead Drops than any rival city in the Western Hemisphere.
