From ucfnmad@ucl.ac.uk Thu Jul 2 18:36:45 1998 Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 18:31:32 +0100 (BST) From: martin dodge To: m.dodge@ucl.ac.uk Subject: Cyber-Geography Research Update Bulletin No. 15 - 2nd July 1998 ========================================================================== == Cyber-Geography Research Update Bulletin No. 15 - 2nd July 1998 == ========================================================================== SPONSORED BY C O R P E X DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATION WEB HOSTING E-COMMERCE Tel: +44 0171 242 4555 Email: service@corpex.com Web: http://www.corpex.com/ Welcome to the fifteenth 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. We are happy to announce the support of CORPEX. They are kindly sponsoring the Cyber-Geography Research web site. ===================================== 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 * A new sub-section on "Real-Time Internet Monitoring" has been added. * Internet Weather Report by Jon S. Stevens, Clear Ink. ( http://www.internetweather.com/ ) * Internet Traffic Reports by Andover.Net. ( http://www.internettrafficreport.com/ ) * Netstat Net - The Internet Status Operation. ( http://199.245.173.5/ ) * State of the Internet. ( http://www2.tscnet.com/cgi-bin/netmon/ ) * MIDS Internet Weather Report (IWR). ( http://www.mids.org/weather/ ) * A couple of interesting articles in wired News on the usefulness of these real-time Internet monitors - "Net Forecast: Cloudy, but Clearing" ( http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/12534.html ) "Are Net Weather Reports A Snow Job?". ( http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/10834.html ) * Net.Medic utility from VitalSigns. ( http://www.vitalsigns.com/netmedic/index.html ) New for the "Some Useful References" section : * Adams P. & Warf B. "Cyberspace Special Issue", Geographical Review, April 1997, Vol. 87, No. 2. ( http://www.geography.unr.edu/GR/issues/GR-April%201997/April97.html -Abstracts online only) * Burkhart G.E. & Goodman S.E., (1998), "The Internet Gains Acceptance in the Persian Gulf", Communications of the ACM, March 1998, Vol. 41, No. 3, pages 19-25. *New section on "Mailing Lists". * The TELECOM-CITIES mailing list, run by Anthony Townsend in the Taub Urban Research Center, New York University. ( http://urban.nyu.edu/ny-affairs/telecom-cities.html ) * The NUA Internet Surveys Email. ( http://www.nua.ie/surveys/moreinfo.html ) New for "Miscellaneous Bits" section : * The "Siliconia" listing of places claiming to be "Silicon ..something..", by Keith Dawson at the Tasty Bits from he Technology Front (TBTF - http://www.tbtf.com/). Currently, they've collected 51 Siliconia associated with 72 different geographical locations worldwide, the most popular Silicon Prairie. ( http://www.tbtf.com/siliconia.html ) ======================= An Atlas of Cyberspaces ======================= * http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/atlas.html * * http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/casa/martin/atlas/atlas.html * A new on the page for the Atlas on traceroutes - both graphical and geographical, available at http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/routes.html Example traceroute utilities include : * Neotrace ( http://www.neoworx.com/ ) * VisualRoute ( http://www.visualroute.com/ ) * tracemap ( http://mids.alexa.com/test/tracemap/ ) * Maproute ( http://ipn.nlanr.net/Tools/Maproute/ ) * GeoBoy ( http://www.ndg.com.au/products/gb/ ) New on the "Topology" page : * A screen-shot of Parasite, an experimental visual email client being developed by Steve Cannon and Gong Szeto at i/o 360. The program presents a map of the topology of email messages and their interrelationships. ( http://parasite.io360.com/index.html ) New on the "Web Site Maps" page: * Examples of Nicheworks is a interactive tool for visualising massive networks with hundreds of thousands of nodes. It was developed by Graham Wills at Bell Labs. The screen-shots here show Nicheworks visualisation of the network structure of a large Web site. ( http://www.bell-labs.com/user/gwills/NICHEguide/niche.html ) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ thanks for your attention 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. (Copyright (c) Martin Dodge, 1998) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ *============================================* | MARTIN DODGE - email : m.dodge@ucl.ac.uk | |--------------------------------------------| | Cyber-Geography Research | |Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) | | University College London, | | 1-19 Torrington Place, | | London, WC1E 6BT. United Kingdom. | | -------------------------------------------| | 0171 391 1782 | | http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/ | | http://www.cybergeography.org/ | *============================================*