Visualizing Google News ¹ using treemaps. Very cool idea.
http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/
See what happened:
[2004-3-30] - published [2004-3-30] - newmap get’s k10k’d [2004-3-30] - now mefied [2004-3-30] - and boing-boinged [2004-4-1 ] - the whole internet is pointing to newsmap [2004-4-1 ] - newsmap gets slashdoted [2004-4-1 ] - server is on fire [2004-4-1 ] - server dies [2004-4-1 ] - server is alive [2004-4-1 ] - server dies [2004-4-1 ] - server is alive [2004-4-1 ] - server dies [2004-4-1 ] - server is alive [2004-4-1 ] - server dies [2004-4-1 ] - server is alive [2004-4-1 ] - bandwidth usage tops 50gigs [2004-4-1 ] - server log files reach 60MB [2004-4-1 ] - server dies [2004-4-1 ] - server is alive [2004-4-1 ] - database gives up and dies [2004-4-2 ] - database is up and running [2004-4-2 ] - newsmap resumes with partial data