From ucfnmad@ucl.ac.uk Fri Jul 31 18:09:27 1998 Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 17:54:06 +0100 (GMT) From: martin dodge To: m.dodge@ucl.ac.uk Subject: Cyber-Geography Research Update Bulletin No. 16 - 31th July 1998 ========================================================================== == Cyber-Geography Research Update Bulletin No. 16 - 31th July 1998 == ========================================================================== SPONSORED BY C O R P E X DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATION WEB HOSTING E-COMMERCE Tel: +44 0171 242 4555 Email: service@corpex.com Web: http://www.corpex.com/ Welcome to the sixteenth Cyber-Geography research Update Bulletin. This is a regular, free, email bulletin to inform you of changes and new additions made to The Geography of Cyberspace Directory and the Atlas of Cyberspaces on the Cyber-Geography Research web site. The bulletin will distributed about once a month, depending on how much time I have available for my cyberspace exploration. We are happy to acknowledge the support of CORPEX. They are kindly sponsoring the Cyber-Geography Research web site. ===================================== The Geography of Cyberspace Directory ===================================== * http://www.cybergeography.org/geography_of_cyberspace.html * * http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/casa/martin/geography_of_cyberspace.html * New for the "Mapping the Internet" section : * Finding a host's geographical location by Uri Raz. A useful technical note on methods of determining an Internet hosts geographical location. ( http://t2.technion.ac.il/~s2845543/IP2geo.html ) New for "Visualising Information Spaces" section : * InfoViz : Visualization of Dataspaces, project lead by Dr Rolf Daler, University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam. Interesting information visualisation project, plus a comprehensive repository on many other projects and tools. ( http://fabdo.fh-potsdam.de/infoviz/index.html ) * Durand D. & Kahn P./, 1998, "MAPA: a system for inducing and visualizing hierarchy in websites", from the Ninth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (HT'98), June, 1998, Pittsburgh, USA. ( http://www.dynamicdiagrams.com/aboutdd/papers.htm ) New for "Internet Traffic, Size and Demographic Statistics" section : * networkMCIs Internet Traffic Report. ( http://traffic.mci.com/ ) * Search Engine Sizes, by Danny Sullivan at Search Engine Watch. ( http://www.searchenginewatch.com/reports/sizes.html ) * Measuring Search Engine Coverage and Overlap, by Krishna Bharat & Andrei Broder, at Digital Systems Research Center. ( http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/personal/Krishna_Bharat/ WebArcheology/measurement.html ) * Measuring the Size of the Internet Databases, an article by Greg R. Notess, Database, Vol. 20, No 5, pages 69-72, Oct-Nov 1997. ( http://www.onlineinc.com/database/OctDB97/net10.html ) * How big is the Web?, How much of the Web do the search engines index? How up to date are the search engines? by Steve Lawrence and C. Lee Giles, NEC Research Institute. ( http://www.neci.nj.nec.com/homepages/lawrence/websize.html ) New for "Some Relevant Organisations" section : * ALLwhois.com - check the world! A comprehensive listing of whois servers around the world. ( http://www.allwhois.com/ ) ======================= An Atlas of Cyberspaces ======================= * http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/atlas.html * * http://www.cybergeography.com/atlas/atlas.html * * http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/casa/martin/atlas/atlas.html * We are pleased to announce a new mirror site for the Atlas of Cyberspaces in the USA. The mirror was kindly donated by TeleGeography, Inc., Washington D.C. (http://www.telegeography.com/). I recommend that users in North America use the mirror at http://www.cybergeography.com/atlas/atlas.html for superior performance, as the primary site is located in London. New on the "Topology" page : * A schematic map of SuperJANET III backbone topology, the network connecting UK universities. ( http://www.ja.net/documents/UKERNA_News/1998/march/UKERNA_News4.html#1 ) New on the "Information Landscape" page : * A screen-shot of a prototype landscape interface for information searching and browsing. The research is being undertaken by Sara Fabrikant, Department of Geography, University of Colorado. ( http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~fabrikas/research/spatialization.html ) New on the "Information Spaces" page : * A "semantic constellation" of an information space.produced by Chaomei Chen, Department of Information Systems and Computing, Brunel University. ( http://www.brunel.ac.uk/~cssrccc2/ ) * Screen-shots of SQWID (Search Query Weighted Information Display), an interesting Java-based tool visualising search results from Web queries. It is being developed by Scott McCrickard, Colleen Kehoe, Amy Opalak, at the Georgia Institute of Technology. ( http://www.cc.gatech.edu/grads/m/Scott.McCrickard/sqwid/ ) =========================== Recommendation of the Month =========================== My recommendation of the month is a special issue of The Geographical Review on Cyberspace. The issue represents an important, first collection of essays by academic geographers on the theme of Cyberspace. The following papers are included : * Introduction: Cyberspace And Geographical Space By Paul C. Adams and Barney Warf, Guest Editors * The Words Of Cyberspace (A Cyberglossary) By Paul F. Starrs and Julie Anderson * Cyberspace And Virtual Places By Paul C. Adams * The Emerging Geographies Of Virtual Worlds By Jonathan Taylor * The Sacred, The Regional, And The Digital By Paul F. Starrs * Politics And Media Richness In World Wide Web Representations Of The Former Yugoslavia By Michele H. Jackson and Darren Purcell * Small States And Cyberboosterism By Stanley D. Brunn and Charles D. Cottle * Counterhegemonic Discourses And The Internet By Barney Warf and John Grimes * Electronic Communication And Environmental Policy In Russia And Estonia By Shannon O'Lear * The Cyberspace "War Of Ink And Internet" In Chiapas, Mexico By Oliver Froehling The abstracts can be found at http://www.geography.unr.edu/GR/issues/GR-April%201997/April97.html You can order single copies at $20 plus postage from the American Geographical Society: American Geographical Society 120 Wall Street, Suite 100 New York, NY 10005 phone: 212 422-5456 fax: 212 422-5480 email: amgeosoc@earthlink.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ thanks for your attention martin dodge ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I welcome your comments on the usefulness of the update bulletin and also on my Web pages. Suggestions for new information on the theme of the geography of the Internet, WWW and Cyberspace are also welcome. Send them to m.dodge@ucl.ac.uk. If you want to be removed from the update bulletin distribution list please email me at m.dodge@ucl.ac.uk, with a subject line like "Please remove me from the update bulletin", remembering to include your email address. (Copyright (c) Martin Dodge, 1998) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ *============================================* | MARTIN DODGE - email : m.dodge@ucl.ac.uk | |--------------------------------------------| | Cyber-Geography Research | |Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) | | University College London, | | 1-19 Torrington Place, | | London, WC1E 6BT. 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