A Google engineer from Zurich has posted a neat little experiment
online: visitors to this blog post can help create an evolving
image of a world map, one vote at a time. (Note: fellow Safari users, the site doesn't work properly in our browser of
choice. Use Firefox instead.) Upon arriving at the site, you're presented with a blue and green pixelated map of the
world. One pixel is red, and that's your chance to make a change and vote. There's also an interesting time-ramped
movie available of the map's evolution.
A commenter on the post mentioned an interesting possibility: bias. The post is written in English - could that lead to any kind of geographic malformations? I guess it'll be interesting to watch how the map plays out.
1. intersting....that's like a milliondollar page
Posted at 6:12AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Professional Web Design Specialist