A while back... like in August of 2004 - I wondered what one million dots might look like. So I made a picture just to see.

Well, since then a number of enterprising individuals have come up with a money maker. Selling advertising one pixel at a time on a million pixel grid.

A google search for Million Pixel Ads returns a long list of sites selling pixels for anywhere between $0.05 to $1,000 per pixel. There is even a site that tracks the "pixel wars".

One person started 'the war' by being the first to make $1,000,000 selling pixels. Then came the copycats.

One article I read about this phenomenon noted that its one of those ideas so simple one must ask "why didn't I think of that?"

Why not indeed. I was 50% of the way there. I thought about what a million dots might look like - but I never thought - "I wonder if I could sell each of those dots for a buck."

Well... I never beat myself up over 'what could have been' situations. What's done is done. I didn't get the idea - so I didn't get the reward for it - but I didn't lose anything either. I can just be happy for the people that have made a buck (or a million bucks as the case may be).

andre