I always like various ways that information is rendered
graphically.  I am a very visual person, and love to see images
that reflect and represent information.

Quite a while ago, I loved hearing about the use of EtherPeg
and its use at various conferences.  EtherPeg would monitor the
local network, and detect the images from the web pages that people
were looking at.  In real time, EtherPeg would display these
images on the screen as a constantly evolving collage of of activity.

Now there is Ten By Ten (or 10×10?)
which is a very cool way to view the current events of our society …
based on the RSS news feeds of some top sources of current-event
news.  If you go and view the site, you’ll see a 10×10 grid of
images that have been grabbed form the various news services, based on
the popularity of the words detected in news.  Move your mouse
over the images, and you’ll see the list of words … click on an image
and see the articles that contributed to that word and image making the
“top 100” for the hour.

It is projects like this that blend technology, society, and art … in
a way that I really appreciate.  It is both an experiment in
science, and a piece of art being molded by society.