The World’s Blog Posts in 3D
Posted Thursday, February 22nd, 2007, at 4:13 pm Eastern by Mark Wallace
I’ve seen this YouTube clip before, but I was finally inspired to install it after 3pointD contributor Chip Poutine sent me this link. It’s a very cool screensaver that renders all the blog posts coming from everywhere in the world in 3D on a 3D globe. Unfortunately, something in my system seems to be preventing it from working (which is plaguing a lot of my day today, frustratingly). I get the cool globe, but no posts show up. In any case, I love the idea. Download it yourself and tell me what I’m doing wrong. [UPDATE: Ooh, nvm, it’s working now! \o/ Very cool. And yes, you can click through to the posts themselves on the Web. (Sorry for the double-update.)]
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Well, how the hell do you get it to work? I just have a spinning globe.
It just takes a while to warm up is all. Just let it sit there for 5 minutes and soon you’ll see all kinds of penis-enlargement offers scrolling up your screen. As well as some interesting stuff as well.
Have you ever played with http://www.wefeelfine.org? It’s a beautifully designed and profound global blog visualizer designed to answer the question: how is the blogosphere feeling?
You can look at these lovely moving montages of blog posts (I feel ugly, I feel inspired, I’m elated…). But more importantly, you can query the blogosphere, asking questions like how do women in Illinois feel when the weather is below 20 degrees.
Insanely cool.
Not to mention insanely beautiful.
Can’t wait to try this! All these mirror world apps make this look tame. And we didn’t even have that view of the world until 1972 :-).
nah, we had that view as of 1969 or even earlier.
three years makes a big difference, as the last 3 years show!
HEY! how about a BlogHUD site that does the same thing for the SL map??? I’m a genius! Someone call Koz. Shit but that would be cool.
Although I don’t think he is using a live data set, seeing these also reminded me of Aaron Koblin’s stunning visualization work with FAA flight data.
Here’s the full url if the above link doesn’t work, and/or if anyone’s interested:
http://users.design.ucla.edu/~akoblin/work/faa/interpolated/index.html
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