From ucfnmad@ucl.ac.uk Mon Dec 22 16:59:51 1997
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 15:47:15 +0000 (GMT)
From: martin dodge <ucfnmad@ucl.ac.uk>
To: m.dodge@ucl.ac.uk
Subject: The Geography of Cyberspace Update Bulletin No. 8 -22nd December 1997
The Geography of Cyberspace Update Bulletin No. 8 - 22nd December 1997
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Welcome to the eighth 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
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New for the "Mapping the Internet" section :
* "Modeling Topology of Large Internetworks", a research project in
College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.
See http://www.cc.gatech.edu/projects/gtitm/
* 6Bone Maps, a range of diagrams and maps tracking the global
development of the 6Bone, at http://www.cs-ipv6.lancs.ac.uk/ipv6/6Bone/Maps
Produced by the IPv6 Resource Centre at the Computing Department,
Lancaster University, UK.
New in the "Visualising Information Spaces" section :
* "Mapuccino" is a Web site mapping application developed by IBM's Haifa
Research Lab. The Mapuccino Java application produces dynamic maps of Web
sites in a variety of graphic styles. http://www.ibm.com/java/mapuccino/
Formerly called WebCutter, more details can be found in the research paper
- Maarek Y.S. & Shaul I.Z.B. 1997, "WebCutter: A System for Dynamic
and Tailorable Site Mapping", available online at
http://www-ee.technion.ac.il/W3C/WebCutter.html
New in the "Internet Traffic, Size and Demographic Statistics" section :
* Internet statistics for Latin America and the Caribbean region ("Nodos y
Servidores WWW de America Latina y el Caribe") by the Universidad de Costa
Rica. See http://ns.cr/latstat
New for the "Some Useful References" section :
* Cairncross F. 1997, "The Death of Distance: How the Communications
Revolution Will Change Our Lives", Harvard Business School Press. Further
details from http://www.deathofdistance.com/
* Donath J.S. 1995, "Visual Who : Animating the Affinities and Activities
of an Electronic Community", ACM Multimedia '95 conference,
November 5-9th 1995, San Francisco, California. Available from
http://judith.www.media.mit.edu/Judith/VisualWho/VisualWho.html
* Montgomery J., 1997, "Fiber in the Sky : The Orbiting Internet", BYTE
Magazine, pages 58-72, November 1997.
See http://www.byte.com/art/9711/sec5/art1.htm
* Press L. 1997, "Tracking the Global Diffusion of the Internet",
Communications of the ACM, Vol. 40, No. 11, pages 11-17, November 1997.
Available at http://som.csudh.edu/cis/lpress/articles/worldacm.htm
* Stern P. & Kelly T. 1997, "Distance is Dead: Long Live Geography!", IIS'97,
Toronto. Available online at http://www.itu.int/ti/papers/ISS97/23sep97.pdf
(Note, in pdf format)
New for the "Some Relevant Conferences" :
* NLANR's "Internet Statistics and Metrics Analysis (ISMA)" conference
series
- ISMA'96, 19-20th February 1996, San Diego, USA.
http://www.nlanr.net/ISMA/isma96.htm
- ISMA'97, 1-2nd May 1997, San Diego, USA.
http://www.nlanr.net/ISMA/isma97_report.html
* "Hypertext'97", proceedings of the Eighth ACM Conference on Hypertext,
6-11th April, 1997, Southampton, UK. See
http://journals.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~lac/ht97/
A new section has been created called "Some of the Key Cyber-Explorers"
This provides links to the home pages of key cyberspaces explorers. The
people currently listed are :
* K Claffy, NLANR / CAIDA
* Larry Landweber, University ofWisconsin - Madison
* Larry Press, California State University
* John S. Quarterman, MIDS
* Jack Rickard, Boardwatch Magazine
* Gregory C. Staple, TeleGeography Inc
New in the "Some Relevant Organisations" section :
* LANIC - Network & Information Services in Latin America</a>, by the
University of Texas at Austin, USA.
http://www.lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/networking/
* Asia-Pacific Networking Group (APNG). At http://www.apng.org/
Update Information - An Atlas of Cyberspaces
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A new page in the Atlas has been created, called "Info Spaces". Current
examples are Tamara Munzner's hyperbolic spaces and Apple's MCF spaces
visualised using "Hotsauce".
A number of other new maps and images have been added to the Atlas.
Including a diagram of the topology of all the network connections in the
6Bone, the experimental international IPv6 testbed network. See the
Topology maps page. The ISP maps page has new examples of IBM's
Global Services Internet backbone and CERNET, China's Education and
Research Network backbone. Lastly, the Web site maps page has new
screen-shots of "Mapuccino", a neat Java application for dynamically
constructing interactive visual maps of Web sites developed by the IBM's
Haifa Research Lab in Israel.
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Thanks for your time,
martin dodge
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