Packet Garden is a free software that records a users personal internet use and expresses the information that it records in a visual dipiction of a garden which takes into account geographical location of servers visitted, type of data accessed, uploading and downloading. The image of the garden is saved on the user’s computer and available for him or her to look through later. The tool invites users to be more aware of the how much they are visiting, uploading, and downloading from different sites and to take note of the physical locations of servers that they interact with. This could create beautiful reminders of how users have been interacting with actual physical locations, and cause users to be more diliberate about how they spend their time online.
Jon Zayat