From ucfnmad@ucl.ac.uk Tue May 5 19:51:00 1998 Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 18:55:25 +0100 (BST) From: martin dodge To: m.dodge@ucl.ac.uk Subject: Cyber-Geography Research Update Bulletin No. 13 - 5th May 1998 ========================================================================== == Cyber-Geography Research Update Bulletin No. 13 - 5th May 1998 == ========================================================================== Welcome to the thirteenth 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. ===================================== 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 : * Internet Ecologies research, analysing the structure and use of the Internet. Led by Bernardo A. Huberman and based at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. ( http://www.parc.xerox.com/istl/groups/iea/www/internetecologies.html ) New in the "Visualising Information Spaces" section : * You can try Perspecta's ( http://www.perspecta.com ) "fly-through" information navigation technologies at the meta-news site AllTheNews ( http://www.allthenews.com/ ). * Thinkmap, information visualisation technology from Plumb Design. See http://www.thinkmap.com for future details. This technology is being used in the Smithsonian's "Revealing Things" web exhibition ( http://www.si.edu/revealingthings/ ). * CyberAtlas project by the Guggenheim Museum's web site, with the aim "...to commission and collect a series of maps of cyberspace, with a particular focus on sites related to visual art and culture." ( http://cyberatlas.guggenheim.org/intro/ca-home.html ) * IOD4 Web Stalker, an experimental web browser which includes an interesting mapping function. ( http://www.backspace.org/iod/ ) New in the "Internet Traffic, Size and Demographic Statistics" section : * Headcount - Who's Online and Where, provides Internet / Web usage estimates by country, language and region based on current reports from market research surveys. ( http://www.headcount.com/ ) New for the "Some Useful References" section : * Chalmers M., 1998, "The Order of Things: Activity-Centred Information Access", paper presented at The Seventh International World-Wide Web Conference, 14-18th April 1998, Brisbane, Australia. ( http://www7.conf.au/programme/fullpapers/1880/com1880.htm ) * Greenstein S., 1998, "Universal Service in the Digital Age: The Commercialization and Geography of US Internet Access", January 21st 1998, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, USA. ( http://skew2.kellogg.nwu.edu/~greenste/research/papers/ISPACCES2.pdf - in PDF format) * Moss M.L. & Townsend A.M., 1998, "How Telecommunications is Transforming Urban Spaces", Taub Urban Research Center, New York University, March 1998. ( http://urban.nyu.edu/research/telecom-urban-spaces/Athens-final.html ) * Moss M.L. & Townsend A.M., 1998, "Spatial Analysis of the Internet in U.S. Cities and States", Taub Urban Research Center, New York University, April 1998. ( http://urban.nyu.edu/research/newcastle/newcastle.html ) * Stefik M., 1996, "Internet Dreams: Archetypes, Myths, and Metaphors", The MIT Press : Cambridge, Mass, ISBN 0-262-69202-3. ( http://mitpress.mit.edu/book-home.tcl?isbn=0262692023 ) * Thrift N., 1996, "New Urban Eras and Old Technological Fears: Reconfiguring the Goodwill of Electronic Things", Urban Studies, Vol. 33, No. 8, pages 1463-1493. * Warf B., 1998, "Reach Out and Touch Someone: AT&T's Global Operations in the 1990s", Professional Geographer, Vol. 50, No. 2, pages 255-267. ======================= An Atlas of Cyberspaces ======================= * http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/atlas.html * * http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/casa/martin/atlas/atlas...html * You may also like to visit the Guggenheim Museum's CyberAtlas project which is focused on mapping sites related to visual art and culture. ( http://cyberatlas.guggenheim.org/intro/ca-home.html ) New on the "Topology" page : * A webmap created by Itaru Nakagawa in January 1996 showing the interconnections between the most popular WWW servers in Japan. ( http://voyager.ulis.ac.jp/ ) New on the "Info Maps" page : * Maps of web browsing paths made by Matthew Chalmers at Ubilab, Union Bank of Switzerland. See his paper "The Order of Things: Activity-Centred Information Access" ( http://www7.conf.au/programme/fullpapers/1880/com1880.htm ) New on the "Info Spaces" page : * Thinkmap information space technologies created Plumb Design (http://www.thinkmap.com/ ) New on the "ISP Maps" page : * UUNET UK backbone ( http://www.uk.uu.net/network/ukmap ). * A map of the Abilene network, part of the Internet2 project linking major US universities with a very fast, high-capacity network. (http://www.ucaid.edu/html/abilene_map.html ) * Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ) backbone map (http://www.iij.ad.jp/network/backbone-e.html ) New on the "Web site maps" page : * A screen-shot of I/O/D 4 Web Stalker, an interesting, but somewhat experimental, web browser which includes mapping functions. ( http://www.backspace.org/iod/ ) ============ Just For Fun ============ "You have reached the end of the Internet" - http://opaldata.com/the_end/index.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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. 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