From ucfnmad@ucl.ac.uk Wed Feb 4 18:22:17 1998 Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 16:22:23 +0000 (GMT) From: martin dodge To: m.dodge@ucl.ac.uk Subject: Cyber-Geography Research Update Bulletin No. 10 - 4th February 1998 ========================================================================== == Cyber-Geography Research Update Bulletin No. 10 - 4th February 1998 == ========================================================================== Welcome to the tenth Cyber-Geography research Update Bulletin. This is a regular, free, email bulletin to inform you of changes and new additions made to The Geography of Cyberspace Directory and the Atlas of Cyberspaces on the Cyber-Geography Research web site. 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 Cyberspace Directory ========================================================== * http://www.cybergeography.org/geography_of_cyberspace.html * * http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/casa/martin/geography_of_cyberspace.html * New for the "Internet Network Topology Maps" section : * Usenet topology graphs produced by Naveen Jamal, Reference.com, Sift Inc. Excellent graphs of Usenet topology at both a global and national scale. (http://www.reference.com/usetop/) New in the "Visualising Information Spaces" section : * OLIVE - On-line Library of Information Visualization Environments (http://www.otal.umd.edu/Olive) edited by Michael Reed and Dan Heller, University of Maryland College Park. New for the "Internet Connectivity" section : * "Internet Connectivity in Africa", a report by Mike Jensen, January 1998 (http://demiurge.wn.apc.org/africa/afstat.htm). Also available, tables of African Internet Density and Internet Users by country. (See http://demiurge.wn.apc.org/africa/density.htm & http://demiurge.wn.apc.org/africa/users.htm ) New in the "Internet Traffic, Size and Demographic Statistics" section : * The Boardwatch / Keynote Systems's "Internet Backbone Measurement" (See http://www.boardwatch.com/MAG/97/JUL/bwm22.htm). More details can be found on the Keynote Systems web site (http://www.keynote.com/) and in the Boardwatch ISP Directory (http://www.boardwatch.com/ISP/index.html). See also an article by Jack Rickard - "The Internet by City" in Boardwatch Magazine (http://www.boardwatch.com/MAG/98/Jan/bwm52.html). New for the "Some Useful References" section : * Ciolek T.M., 1997, "The Size, Content and Geography of Asian Cyberspace : An Initial Measurement", The Journal of East Asian Libraries. (http://www.ciolek.com/PAPERS/AsianCyberspace-97.html) * Huberman B.A. & Lukose R.M. 1997, "Social Dilemmas and Internet Congestion", Science, Vol. 277, 25th July 1997, pages 535-537. (http://www.parc.xerox.com/spl/groups/dynamics/www/storms.html) * Kahin B. & Keller J.H., 1997, Coordinating the Internet, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., USA. (Further information at http://ksgwww.harvard.edu/iip/cai/cisupp.html) * Kitchin R. 1998, Cyberspace : The World in the Wires, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, England. (Further details at http://www.qub.ac.uk/geosci/research/geography/cyberspace/book.html) * Miller E.J. 1996, "Visualizing Spatial Relationships Between Internet Objects", Annual Review of OCLC Research. (http://www.oclc.org/oclc/research/publications/review96/visual.htm) * Moss M.L. & Townsend A., 1997, "Tracking the Net : Using Domain Names to Measure the Growth of the Internet in U.S. Cities", Journal of Urban Technology, Vol. 4, No. 3, pages 47-60. * Smith M.A., 1997, "Measuring and Mapping the Social Structure of Usenet", 17th Annual International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, 13-16 February 1997, San Diego,U SA. (http://netscan.sscnet.ucla.edu/csoc/papers/sunbelt97/) * Thoen B., 1997, "Gain a Sense of Place in Cyberspace", GIS World, December 1997, pages 32-33. * Wurman R.S., 1997, Information Architects, Graphis Press Corp. (http://www.ted.com/info/index.shtml) New in the "Some Relevant Organisations" section : * American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN). (http://www.arin.net/intro.html) * The Generic Top Level Domain Memorandum of Understanding (gTLD-MOU), "..is the international governance framework in which policies for the administration and enhancement of the Internet's global Domain Name System(DNS) are developed and deployed." (http://www.gtld-mou.org/) Update Information - An Atlas of Cyberspaces ============================================ * http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/atlas.html * * http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/casa/martin/atlas/atlas.html * A number of new maps and images have been added to the Atlas this month. Topology Maps * A nice topology map of the Kita-tohoku portion of the Japanese Internet, produced by Norie Iwaoka. (http://www.hi-net.or.jp/~iwatoku/vt_net/) * Graphs of the topology of Usenet, produced Naveen Jamal at Reference.com. Graphs at the global scale are available, along with ones for individual countries. (http://www.reference.com/usetop/) Info Maps * A map of the social patterns of an electronic community produced by "Visual Who" developed by Judith S. Donath, Media Lab, MIT, USA. (http://judith.www.media.mit.edu/Judith/VisualWho/VisualWho.html) * A "satellite" map of AlphaWorld, a large 3D multi-user virtual worlds run by ActiveWorlds (http://www.activeworlds.com/events/satellite.html) Info Landscapes * URLGRAPH, developed by Kevin Palfreyman for visualising structured information spaces such as the WWW. (http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/kev/computing/project/graph/graph.html) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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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