It would be fun to be able to see an outline map of the world. On the map, there would be a point for each vote cast in the last 10 minutes, say, or 30 minutes maybe. Choose the window to make it interesting. You could do it with the Google Maps API and push the page once a minute. Maybe there's a better way.
As you watch the map, you'd see where the votes are coming from at the moment. Are voters in the US voting from work during the day? Do Icelandic voters vote late in the evening? How many folks are voting from Australia at the moment (what time is it down under, anyway?) With 24 time zones and tens of thousands of votes the moving patterns would take on an artistic quality that would change from moment to moment, challenge to challenge, season to season.
If you wanted to get fancy, you could color code votes of 1-3 as red, 4-7 and yellow, and 8-10 as green. Or maybe allow the user to filter them.
What do you all think?
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