Thanks! Yes - advertising is one of many places where embedding words into pictures is used to prevent machine parsing (so that we can’t, say, use spam blocking algorithms on banner ads) - of course, this is also true for CAPTCHA tests text like the images required when you sign up for a new email account. The CAPTCHA filters the spam attacks out and lets the humans in - while the banner ads prevent us from filtering their text for spam as a way to get in….

[I tried to fix your links above as requested]

I’m Gratified to find an article about “PoeTry It.”

For a moment, i Mistookt your name for that of a friend with whome i used to play word games. (he is a Pianist and not a Phd.)
The Animated poem was writen in direct response to Other Artists Exhibiting on Flickr ! »??/streetart#???? -_- ©?? / !!6_or_SeX-_-.???????????????????????.4rtist.com[{may not translate}] and Flip xpander.

I’ve also seen animated poetics on the web since 1995.

At first i thought this was on the level of hypertexting / linking Ezra Pound’s “cantos” But the mode of timed text soon became a standard of web advertiserment. ( well it was in ‘95). I had hoped to spur a slough of Flickr artists to post small Text animations. Your observation about the “swirls” is very astute. This piece was a simple exhortation to write.

Flash art and Gif animations, are both areas where text art can shock and fascinate. Words used in this fashion can often evade the constraints of censorship. After all they are ambigous pixels, un-parsed and constantly mobile.