I recently started participating in an interesting experiment called Eyebrowse created by students at MIT.
eyebrowse is an add-on for firefox that lets you easily record, visualize, and share your trails through the web in real-time.
I’m always interested in data visualisation and research tools so I installed it and have been adding a lot of sites to it over the past couple of weeks or so. It’s all a bit weird but kind of exciting too. I’ll admit I don’t actually understand everything and I’m not sure it’s always correct or what it measures or not, but given there are lots of nice colours to look at and a variety of cryptic graphs to ponder upon I’m happy with it so far.
This video offers a quick 45 seconds overview:
eyebrowse | share and compare your web trails from Brennan Moore on Vimeo.
Here are my Top 20 urls for each day of the week:
This one displays my top urls by time of day:
I don’t know if it keeps recording visits to the same urls when I leave the same tabs open, close my laptop and come back later… Apparently there’s only four hours in the day that don’t have online activity yet. It’s at night so it might be all those porn sites I haven’t included in Eyebrowse so far 😀
This one looks pretty cool, it’s my recorded online activity for the past 20 days:
I could go on, but it’s pretty fascinating and I recommend joining in the fun. And it will also save time when Big Brother comes knocking, I’ll just give him the url.