From ucfnmad@link-1.ts.bcc.ac.uk Mon Dec 1 17:13:42 1997 Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 18:16:39 +0000 (GMT) From: martin dodge To: m.dodge@ucl.ac.uk Subject: The Geography of Cyberspace Update Bulletin No. 7 -28th November 1997 (fwd) The Geography of Cyberspace Update Bulletin No. 7 - 28th November 1997 ======================================================================== Welcome to the seventh 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 ================================================= New in the "Visualising Information Spaces" section : * Dynamic Diagrams Inc. are a leading company in designing web site maps and navigation tools. They have a nice Java-based product called MAPA, which produces interactive web site maps. http://www.dynamicdiagrams.com/ * CLEARweb, another web site mapping application. http://www.clearweb.com/ * Astra SiteManger, yet another web site mapping and management tool. http://www.ns.dk/mercury/astra/astradata.htm * Yahoo!3D is a three dimension cybermap of part of Yahoo's hierarchical Web directory. A series of 3D VRML worlds representing parts of the Yahoo directory have been created, which you can walk or fly through to access relevant Web sites. http://3d.yahoo.com/3d/docs/bridge.html * Maps of information spaces produced by Hsinchun Chen, University of Arizona, USA, including "ET-Map", an information map of the space occupied by the URLs of over 100,000 entertainment related web pages. http://ai2.BPA.Arizona.EDU/ent/ * Sitemap maps part of the web space. It was developed by Xia Lin, University of Kentucky, USA. http://lislin.gws.uky.edu/Sitemap/"> New in the "Internet Connectivity" section : * "Internetology", a series of maps charting the worldwide spread of the Internet since November 1993, developed by Olivier Crepin-Leblond, Imperial College, UK. http://www.ee.ic.ac.uk/misc/bymap/ntlgy/ * Connectivity Data for Africa's Info Infrastructure, comprehensive and up to date information maintained by Mike Jensen. It includes a nice clickable map of the countries in African. http://www3.wn.apc.org/africa/ * Freedom to Connect, WIRED (August 1997, pages 106-107), by Leila Conners. A global map showing the level of freedom to connect to the Internet at a national level. (unfortunately, the actual map is not online!) http://wwww.wired.com/wired/5.08/map.html New in the "Internet Traffic, Size and Demographic Statistics" section : * Nua's How Many Online?. A listing of the best estimates of the number of people online by region and country. Compiled by Nua Internet Surveys, Ireland. http://www.nua.ie/surveys/how_many_online.html" New for the "Some Useful References" section : * Fagrell H. & Sorensen C. 1997, "It's Life Jim, But Not As We Know It!", IRIS 20 Conference. http://www.ifi.uio.no/iris20/proceedings/35.htm * International Telecommunication Union 1997, "Challenges to the Network : Telecommunications and the Internet", September 1997. http://www.itu.int/ti/publications/inet_97/inet_97.htm New in the "Some Relevant Organisations" section : Listing of Network Information Centers (NICs) around the world at Yahoo! http://www.yahoo.com/ComputersandInternet/Internet/ DomainRegistration/Network_Information_Centers/ For example the UK Network Information Centre - http://www.nic.uk/ Update Information - An Atlas of Cyberspaces ============================================ Several new maps have been added to the "ISP Maps" page in the Atlas. Two examples of the excellent Israeli ISP backbone maps create by John Neystadt. http://www.neystadt.org/israel/maps.htm An interesting 3D VRML map of CESNET - the Czech educational and scientific network. If you have a browser capable of handling VRML files you can download the 3D map yourself from http://www.cesnet.cz/cesnet/cesnet.wrl ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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. 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. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ *============================================* | MARTIN DODGE - email : m.dodge@ucl.ac.uk | |--------------------------------------------| |Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) | | University College London, | | 1-19 Torrington Place, | | London, WC1E 6BT. United Kingdom. | | -------------------------------------------| | Tel : 0171 391 1782 | | Web : www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/ | *============================================*