It’s a small world after all.
Every once in awhile a web 2.0 technology, website, or service makes me exclaim loudly and almost (or actually) fall out of my chair. ClustrMaps is the cause today.
The map below shows the locations of over 200 different people who have visited my blog in the last 24 hours:
I added ClustrMaps to my blog late yesterday, and the site had to wait 24 hours to collect data before showing an updated map. This is a free service, and I am just AMAZED!!! I added the ClustrMap to the bottom of each of my blog pages, by adding the provided HTML code to the footer template in WordPress.
Of the 7 continents in the world, in the last 24 hours I have had blog readers from five:
- North America
- Europe
- Africa
- Asia
- Australia & New Zealand
Someone in India checked out my blog today.
Someone in South Africa did too.
I am awed, amazed, thrilled, and humbled. Let no man or woman tell me blogging is just the latest techno-fad that will come and go. I know a different reality by personal experience.
We are living in monumentally transformational times. When an educator in Lubbock, Texas, can create a blog and reach a global audience like this– without getting anyone’s permission or passing the elite review of some publishing gatekeeper– the world has changed in a very basic way.
I am so excited to be alive in March of 2006! And I’m glad you’ve stopped by to read the latest posts here. Where are you reading “Moving at the Speed of Creativity” from today in the world?
Note: As of 1 Oct 2026, this is a FULL STATIC COPY of all 6,390 posts shared on this blog since 2003. Updated content and ideas from Wes Fryer are still available!
Comments
7 responses to “ClustrMaps”
Wow! What an amazing service. It is awe-inspiring to think about how global your ideas are reaching. Talk about the World Wide Web! Congratulations on your global impact,
~from Chicago 🙂
Wow! A suprisingly simple concept based on the data that is collected from web browsers. Way more fun and than the usual graphs. It makes one wonder about other ways data canbe presented to an audience.
I agree – I had exactly the same feeling when I started using http://www.gvisit.com on my site Open Resource Centre. People all over the world, from Alaska to Hong Kong, to New Zealand are reading my blog
The power of communication and connection is awesome.
Makes you think about audience – it still excites me to see the whole world dotted with little flags, hwre my blog’s been seen
Great info by the way – keep it up
Thanks
Mike
Excellent, thanks for letting me know about gvisit, I added this to my blog page footer as well, it looks to provide more detailed map info than ClusrMaps. I’ll look forward to seeing these results too!
Hi Wes! I’m taking your advice and trying to get involved with other blogs. Your post really provides some motivation. You have global influence!
Thanks, I added Clustrmap to my blog. I hope my students will like it as much as I do.
I’m reading from Armidale, NSW, Australia. That will be a red spot halfway between Sydney and Brisbane 😉
Yes, these are monumentally transformational and amazing times!