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 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 ======================================================================= 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 ================================================= 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, 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 ============================================ 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. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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/ | *============================================*