Watching time, the only true currency // A journal from John B. Roberts
Good for the BBC: BBC News live stats
At CNET News.com, What’s Hot is updated with data hourly, and when new stories are published. Some of the Most Popular data is updated in near-real-time, though most is daily.
For so-close-to-real-time it becomes useless (but still interesting), try Digg Spy.
Showing usage back to the users… that’s fun stuff. And it definitely changes behavior.
A long time ago (relatively), Saturday Night Live (SNL) ran a skit about combination sports, like downhill soccer, or javelin baseball. Now a French television station is channeling (ahem) SNL in an advertisement: “The Biathlon”
As a mild spoiler, let’s just say that the targets in this biathlon aren’t all stationary.
This 45 second video clip won’t be available online forever (at least at the URL above), so take a look. Here’s the original location, but the video isn’t working for me in Safari, at least.)
Of course, maybe it wasn’t SNL at all, but that’s what my memory tells me…and Google could neither confirm nor deny my remembrance. Any brain cells firing out there?