There are a few sites out there that visualize internet "traffic" in real time.
Internet Traffic Report shows a very basic stop-light style map using volume, response time and packet loss as indicators.
Internet Health Report shows packet loss rates by internet service provider on a heatmap-style color scale, with data refreshed every 15 minutes.
Internet Weather Report used to be hosted at www.mids.org, however as far as I can tell that site is no longer functioning. It's a shame, though, because this site provided doppler-radar style MPEG movies of conditions on the internet. The image above is a still from the Boston area.
About the project:
These maps show round trip times from our offices to approximately 4,500 domains worldwide, currently every four hours, six times a day, seven days a week, using ICMP ECHO (ping).
UPDATE: Caida, which I've blogged about before, also has a number of visualization tools here
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