Tracking traffic with balls
May 6, 2010
Whenever groups visit the Greenspun Newsroom or whenever we give a presentation about our operation, especially to other media folks, one of the things that fascinates people is what we call the “wall of balls.”
It’s really nothing more than a video monitor that shows live traffic to LasVegasSun.com. It looks like this:
The system was basically implemented and tweaked by one of our team’s programmers, Tim Thiele.
We have one of these monitors at three different locations in our newsroom.
It basically works like this: A ball falling from the top left to right represents a request to our …
