Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 14:35:45 +0100 (GMT)
From: martin dodge
Subject: Cyber-Geography Research Bulletin, Vol. 1, No. 7, 26th July 1999

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== Cyber-Geography Research Bulletin, Vol. 1, No. 7,  26th July 1999 ==
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Welcome to the Cyber-Geography Research 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 is distributed about once a month, depending on how much time I have available for my cyberspace exploration.

This bulletin is available on the Web at http://www.cybergeography.org/bulletin-1-7.html

We are happy to acknowledge the support of CORPEX. They are kindly sponsoring the Cyber-Geography Research web site.

I am writing a Map of the Month column in Mappa Mundi Magazine (http://mappa.mundi.net/). July's column discussed Tim Bray's Hyperlink Totems from 1995 (http://mappa.mundi.net/maps/).

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The Geography of Cyberspace Directory
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* http://www.cybergeography.org/ge ography_of_cyberspace.html *
* http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/c asa/martin/geography_of_cyberspace.html *

New for the "Mapping the Internet" section:

* NetCensus.org, a collaborative project designed to develop and deploy new techniques for the measurement of geographical aspects of activity and information flows on the Internet. We seek to develop a body of knowledge from which to design and implement a comprehensive survey (or Census) of the Internet. ( http://www.netcensus.org/ )

* A nice geographical traceroute applications called Neotrace from NeoWorx. ( http://www.neoworx.com )

New for the "Topology Maps" section:

* A new TeleGeography wall map, Global Communications Traffic Map, May 1999. ( http://www.telegeography.com/Publications/tmap99.html )

* Peacock Maps, sell maps of Internet topology produced by Hal Burch, a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University, and Bill Cheswick, a scientist at Bell Labs-Lucent Technologies. It is a new venture by TeleGeography. ( http://www.peacockmaps.com )

* Twelve ARPANET maps covering the period 1969 to 1997 from the ARPANET Completion Report, Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Burlington, MA, January 4, 1978.The map were scanned by Larry Press. ( http://som.csudh.edu/cis/lpress/history/arpamaps/ )

New for the "Visualising Information Spaces" section:

* Cockburn A. & Greenberg S., 1999, "Beyond the 'Back' Button: Issues of Page Representation and Organisation in Graphical Web Navigation Tools", Research Report 99-640-03, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada. ( http://gopher.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/Redirect/grouplab/papers/ 1999/99-WebView/html/graWeb.html )

New in the "Internet Statistics" section:

* Internet Topology and Connectivity in the Americas, a report by Eric Arnum, Technical Conference for the Implementation of IABIN, 15-18th April 1999, Braslia. ( http://iabin.bdt.org.br/document/internet/report .html ) Further background information is at http://iabin.bdt.org.br/document/internet/ )

* Lawrence S. & Giles C.L., 1999, "Accessibility of information on the web", Nature, Vol. 400, 8th July 1999. The article is not online, but see http://wwwmetrics.com/ for a summary of their findings.

New for the "Global Internet Diffusion" section:

* The third report - Falling Through the Net: Defining the Digital Divide, 8th July 8, 1999. ( http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/fttn99/c ontents.html )

* Press L., Foster W.A., & Goodman S.E., 1999, "The Internet in India and China", paper presented at the INET'99 Conference, 22-25th June, San Jose, California. ( http://www.isoc.org/inet99/proceedings/3a/3a _3.htm )

* Press L., Foster W.A., & Goodman S.E., 1999, "Surveying the Global Diffusion of the Internet", paper presented at the INET'99 Conference, 22-25th June, San Jose, California. ( http://www.isoc.org/inet99/proceedi ngs/posters/125/index.htm )

* Uimonen P., 1999, "Connecting Laos: Notes from the Peripheries of Cyberspace", paper presented at the INET'99 Conference, 22-25th June, San Jose, California. ( http://www.isoc.org/inet99/proceedings/3a/3a _2.htm )

* The Informationcity.org project examining information technologies and the future of urban environments. A urban research initiative by New York University. ( http://www.informationcity.org/ )

New for the "References" section:

* Cai G., Hirtle S. & Williams J., 1999, "Mapping the Geography of Cyberspace Using Telecommunications Infrastructure Information", paper presented at TeleGeo'99 Fist International Workshop on Telegeoprocessing, 6-7th May 1999, Lyon-Villeurbanne, France. (No information online.)

* Clever Project, 1999, "Hypersearching the Web", Scientific American, June 1999. ( http://www.scientificamerican.com/1999/0699issue/0699raghavan.html )

* Crang M., Crang P., & May J., 1999, Virtual Geographies: Bodies, Space and Relations, (Routledge: London). [Buy the book from Amazon.com and support Cyber-Geography Research http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415168287/cybergeographyre/ ]

* Cukier K.N., 1999, "Bandwidth Colonialism? The Implications of Internet Infrastructure on International E-Commerce", paper presented at theINET'99 Conference, 22-25th June 1999, San Jose, California. ( http://www.isoc.org/inet99/proceedings/1e/1e _2.htm )

* OECD, 1999, Building Infrastructure Capacity For Electronic Commerce - Leased Line Developments And Pricing, OECD, Paris. ( http://www.oecd.org//dsti/sti/it/cm/prod/e_99-4.htm )

New in the "Conferences" section:

* The Eighth International World-Wide Web Conference, 11-14th May 1999, Toronto, Canada. ( http://www8.org/fullpaper.html )

* INET'99: Internet Global Summit, 22-25th June 1999, San Jose, California. (http://www.isoc.org/inet99/proceedings/longt oc.htm )

New for the "Some Other Stuff" section:

* Internet ISO 3166-Based Top Level Domain Survey by the ITU. Provides comprehensive information on who controls the country-code domains across the world. ( http://www.itu.int/net/cctlds/ )

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An Atlas of Cyberspaces
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* 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 *

Due to a major shortage of time over the last month only one new map was added to the Atlas. I plan to add more maps next month.

New one the "ISP Maps" page:

* A new map of the topology of the London metropolitan-area network. ( http://www.lonman.net.uk/Images/map99.gif )

Please remember there is a mirror site for the Atlas of Cyberspaces in the USA at http://www.cybergeography.com/atlas/atlas.html (The mirror was kindly donated by TeleGeography, Inc., Washington D.C. - http://www.telegeography.com/).

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Support Cyber-Geography Research
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Cyber-Geography Research has enrolled on the Amazon.com Associates programme.

If you would like to support the Cyber-Geography Research you can buy the following books from Amazon.com using the URLs below:

* Anders P., 1998, Envisioning Cyberspace: Designing 3D Electronic Space, (New York: McGraw Hill). http://www.amazon.co m/exec/obidos/ASIN/0070016321/cybergeographyre

* Benedikt M., 1992, Cyberspace, First Steps, (MIT Press: Cambridge, Mass.). http://www.amazon.co m/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262521776/cybergeographyre

* Cairncross F., 1997, The Death of Distance: How the Communications Revolution Will Change Our Lives, (Harvard Business School Press). http://www.amazon.co m/exec/obidos/ASIN/0875848060/cybergeographyre

* Card S.K., MacKinlay J. & Shneiderman B., 1999, Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think, (Morgan Kaufman Publishers). http://www.amazon.co m/exec/obidos/ASIN/1558605339/cybergeographyre

* Castells M., 1996, The Rise of the Network Society, (Blackwell Publishers). http://www.amazon.co m/exec/obidos/ASIN/1557866171/cybergeographyre

* Clemente P., 1998, The State of the Net: The New Frontier, (McGraw-Hill: New York). http://www.amazon.co m/exec/obidos/ASIN/0070119791/cybergeographyre

* Coyle D., 1997, The Weightless World: Strategies for Managing the Digital Economy, (Capstone: Oxford). http://www.amazon.co m/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262032597/cybergeographyre

* Crang M., Crang P., & May J., 1999, Virtual Geographies: Bodies, Space and Relations, (Routledge: London). http://www.amazon.c om/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415168287/cybergeographyre/

* Graham S. & Marvin S., 1996, Telecommunications and the City: Electronic Spaces, Urban Places, (Routledge: London). http://www.amazon.co m/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415119030/cybergeographyre

* Juliussen E. & Juliussen-Petska K., 1998, Internet Industry Almanac, (Computer Industry Almanac Inc.). http://www.amazon.co m/exec/obidos/ASIN/0942107136/cybergeographyre

* Kahin B. & Keller J.H., 1997, Coordinating the Internet, (MIT Press: Cambridge, Mass.). http://www.amazon.co m/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262611368/cybergeographyre

* Kitchin R., 1998, Cyberspace: The World in the Wires, (John Wiley & Sons: Chichester, England). http://www.amazon.co m/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471978620/cybergeographyre

* Mitchell W.J., 1995, City of Bits: Space, Place and the Infobahn, (MIT Press: Cambridge, Mass.). http://www.amazon.co m/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262631768/cybergeographyre

* Quarterman J.S., 1990, The Matrix: Computer Networks and Conferencing Systems Worldwide, (Digital Press). http://www.amazon.co m/exec/obidos/ASIN/1555580335/cybergeographyre

* Salus P.H., 1995, Casting the Net: From ARPANET to Internet and beyond...", (Addison-Wesley Publishing Company). http://www.amazon.co m/exe c/obidos/ASIN/0201876744/cybergeographyre

* Smith M. & Kollock P., 1998, Communities in Cyberspace, (Routledge: London). http://www.amazon.co m/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415191408/cybergeographyre

* Stefik M., 1996, Internet Dreams: Archetypes, Myths, and Metaphors, (MIT Press: Cambridge, Mass.) http://www.amazon.co m/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262692023/cybergeographyre

* Wurman R.S., 1997, Information Architects, (Graphis Press Corp.). http://www.amazon.co m/exec/obidos/ASIN/1888001380/cybergeographyre

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thanks for your attention
martin dodge

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I welcome your comments on the usefulness of the 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.

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(Copyright (c) Martin Dodge, 1999)

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