How I changed the world

From korrekt.org

Aug 25 2008. Of course, we all want to change the world, don't we? But in the age of the Web, we may often do so without actually noticing. Quite incidentally, I found out yesterday that I have contributed to possibly thousands of web pages. My contribution is the following:

The image is used as a button for sorting table columns on Wikipedia, e.g. here or here. I created it for SMW, and I am actually not sure yet whether it is the proper icon. I thought about various other options for indicating that a column is not sorted, while still giving a hint that there is something related to sorting to click on. An empty button or a button with a mere dot seamed to have even less connection to the arrows normally used for sorting columns (of course, I also drew the other arrow icons but there seems to be less of creative effort there …). The next level of contribution of course would be to have the rest of SMW in Wikipedia as well!

Yet I continue to be amazed how the Web enables us to contribute even the tinyest bits of our creations to the world community (look, it's even here). So keep your eyes open today for all those tiny little places where you may have changed the world already!