So this is the HitMap generated after my first day using the tool. Thanks to Marc Eisenstadt and Jiri Komzak, of the Open University and the Knowledge Media Institute, whose HitMaps and BuddySpace projects yeilded this cool tool.

Kind of interesting that someone up on Hudson Bay hit Get Real. And what's going on in the middle of Australia? Isn't that an enormous desert?

I ascribe the big blotch in the moddle of Germany to my recent frenzied postings about Plazes (like this and that), which so far seems to be primarily a German phenomenon.

[Update 9.16am:

Turns out that Alice Springs, in the middle of the Australian Desert, is the home of like 6 major ISPs there. Also, Marc turned me onto the table where all hitmaps users are arrayed numerically. I got like 700 hits in the first 16 hours or so of use. So I should be growing like 1000+ per day, I guess.

And it looks like no one in Japan is reading Get Real! We have to change that! Ping your Japanese buddies, and tell them to tune in!