Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/10/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:14 AM 10/26/2008, Brian Reid wrote: >In 1994 Digital Equipment Corporation produced the first live Internet >election coverage, of California statewide races, and used the red and >blue colors to show Republican and Democratic results. We were well >aware of the traditional use of blue by Republicans and red by >Democrats, but decided to swap them because the graphics worked >better. We updated our blue/red maps every 30 seconds. > >http://www.infopeople.org/about/mailinglists/archived/origarchive/0304.html > >We repeated this for the US national and presidential elections in >1996, where it had tens of millions of viewers. > >http://www.allbusiness.com/government/elections-politics-campaigns-ele >ctions/7208052-1.html > >We worked in 197 with the governments of 2 other countries to produce >realtime maps for elections that had more than 2 political parties. Fascinating, Brian! Convergent evolution! THE ECONOMIST, in 2003, credited Robert Vanderblei with the development of the current red-blue usage in 2000. I suspect that Robert was unaware of your work four years before his efforts, and I will ask him about this. Marc msmall@aya.yale.edu Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!