Periodically, local cultural information is superceded by multinational corporate logos and jingles. Is there any way for the user to stop the event. Distinctive local art and music fades in the onslaught of globalizing advertising. During Now events, world weather can be accessed. Viewers pick Panoramas, Street Scenes, or Inside Scenes.
Viewers pick the focus city by rolling over the city icon on the world map.
It constantly updates the display computer. There are thousands of web cameras avaiable. Cities were chosen on criteria of world distribution, reliability, and diversity of views availability within a city. Web cameras are in constanat flux. During the event many cameras went offline.