fyi<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">martin dodge</b> <<a href="mailto:m.dodge@manchester.ac.uk">m.dodge@manchester.ac.uk</a>><br>Date: Aug 26, 2007 4:07 PM
<br>Subject: [MAPPING-CYBERSPACE] Web Trend Map 2007 and Wired Countries of the World map<br>To: <a href="mailto:MAPPING-CYBERSPACE@jiscmail.ac.uk">MAPPING-CYBERSPACE@jiscmail.ac.uk</a><br><br></span>Hi, a couple of new(ish) and interesting cyber maps that I came across
<br>this today.<br><br>Information Architects Japan's 'Web Trend Map 2007', a fascinating<br>reworking of the subway metaphor.<br><a href="http://www.informationarchitects.jp/ia-trendmap-2007v2">http://www.informationarchitects.jp/ia-trendmap-2007v2
</a><br><br>World Information Access Project has put together a 'Wired Countries of<br>the World'<br><a href="http://www.wiareport.org/wia_report_2007_map_only.pdf">http://www.wiareport.org/wia_report_2007_map_only.pdf
</a><br>( Further details at<br><a href="http://www.wiareport.org/index.php/2007-briefing-booklet/">http://www.wiareport.org/index.php/2007-briefing-booklet/</a> )<br><br>Not sure how workable the WIA 'wired' map really is, but it reminds me of
<br>Nico Macdonald's 'Network Society' map from ten years,<br><a href="http://www.spy.co.uk/Research/NetworkSocietyMap/index.html">http://www.spy.co.uk/Research/NetworkSocietyMap/index.html</a><br><a href="http://www.spy.co.uk/Research/NetworkSocietyMap/NetworkSocietyMap.pdf">
http://www.spy.co.uk/Research/NetworkSocietyMap/NetworkSocietyMap.pdf</a><br><br>cheers<br>martin<br><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>==========================================<br>J. T. Johnson<br>Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA
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