From ucfnmad@ucl.ac.uk Wed Sep 24 10:46:11 1997 Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 19:57:39 +0100 (BST) From: martin dodge To: m.dodge@ucl.ac.uk Subject: The Geography of Cyberspace Update Bulletin No. 5 - 23rd Sept. 1997 The Geography of Cyberspace Update Bulletin No. 5 - 23rd September 1997 ======================================================================== Welcome to the fifth Geography of Cyberspace Update Bulletin. This is a regular, free, email bulletin to inform you of changes and new additions made to The Geography of Cyberspace and the Atlas of Cyberspaces web sites. The bulletin will distributed about once a month, depending on how much time I have available for my cyberspace exploration. Update Information - The Geography of Cyberspaces ================================================= I have reorganised the "Visualising WWW Space" section, including a change of title to "Visualising Information Spaces". The following new items have been added : A comprehensive list of Domain name registries around the world, compiled by Thomas Ohrbom. (See http://www.uninett.no/navn/domreg.html) TEN-34 Weather Map, a geographical map showing averaged line loads on the TEN-34 backbone network links. (See http://www.dante.net/operations/statistics/weathermap.html) TEN-34 is a new pan-European high speed backbone linking national research networks, replacing EuropaNET. More details on TEN-34 are available at DANTE (http://www.dante.net/ten-34.html). Internet Backbone maps from Boardwatch (see http://www.nthelp.com/maps.htm) "Now You See It : By letting us fly through mountains and galaxies of information, visualization could help make the Web a more useful resource", from ComputerLetter, Vol. 13, No. 10, March 1997. (Available at : http://www.smaby.com/press_clips/CLv13_n10.html) CAIDA - Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (http://www.caida.org/). They are doing a lot of interesting and important research on the Internet. In particular, check out their comprehensive "CAIDA Measurement Tool Taxonomy" at http://www.caida.org/Tools/taxonomy.html, which lists and reviews many Internet measurement and analysis tools and research projects. Claffy K. & Monk T., 1997, "Internet Data Acquisition and Analysis: Status and Next Steps", INET'97 Conference, 24-27th June 1997, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (Available at http://www.isoc.org/isoc/whatis/conferences/inet/97/proceedings/F1/F1_3.HTM) Internet Statistics : Growth and Usage of the Web and the Internet, by Matthew Gray, MIT, USA. (See http://www.mit.edu/people/mkgray/net/) Barlow J.P., 199?, "Is There a There in Cyberspace?". (Available at :http://www.eff.org/pub/Publications/John_Perry_Barlow/HTML/ utne_community.html) Batty M., 1997, "Virtual Geography", from Futures, Vol. 29, No. 4/5, pages 337-352. (Available at : http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/publications/virtualgeography.html) Bush V., 1945, "As We May Think", from The Atlantic Monthly, July 1945. HTML version by Denys Duchier, University of Ottawa. (Available at :http://www.isg.sfu.ca/~duchier/misc/vbush/vbush-all.shtml) Curry M., 1996, "Cyberspace and Cyberplaces : Rethinking the Identity of Individual and Place", IAMCR / CTP Conference, 18-22 August 1996, Sydney, Australia. (Avilable at : http://dpub36.pub.sbg.ac.at/ectp/CURRY_P.HTM) Moss M.L. & Townsend A., 1997, "Manhattan Leads the 'Net' Nation : New York City and Information Cities Hold Lead in Internet Domain Registration", Taub Urban Research Center, New York University. (Available at : http://www.nyu.edu/urban/research/domains/domainsrevised4.html) African Network Information Center (http://www.afrinic.org/) National Laboratory for Applied Network Research (NLANR) (http://www.nlanr.net/) A new section has been added - "Some Relevant Courses", containing : Course title : "Geography of the Information Economy and the Role of the Internet", Undergraduate Workshop in Economic & Business Geography, Lecturer : Gunter Krumme, Institution : Department of Geography, University of Washington. (See http://weber.u.washington.edu/~krumme/498/mainpage.html) Course title : "Interpreting Cyberspace : Explorations in Virtual Geography", Lecturer : Susan Garfinkel, Institution : Department of English, University of Pennsylvania. (See http://dept.english.upenn.edu/~sgarfink/eng9/eng9home.html) Course title : "Geography of and on the Internet", Lecturer : David J. Robinson, Institution : Department of Geography, Syracuse University. (See http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/geo/Geo500(1).htm) Update Information - An Atlas of Cyberspaces ============================================ Two new pages have been added to the Atlas. "ISP Backbone Maps", contains 14 topology maps of Internet Service Provider (ISP) and Internet Backbone Networks. (See http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/casa/martin/atlas/isp_maps.html) "Web Site Maps", contains 11 examples of web site navigation maps. (See http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/casa/martin/atlas/web_sites.html) Your comments on the new Atlas pages are most welcome. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thanks for your time, 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. 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