Grand Theft: Annenberg. A Trip Through Internet History with @wwwtxt. As ethereal as the internet seems sometimes, it is also an amazing archive of words and language. Tweets are stored with the Library of Congress (and perhaps other government agencies), entire web sites are slurped up into archive.org, and deleting your LinkedIn profile remains a mystery. We know these facts intuitively and while we often discuss the privacy implications of this reality, it’s also striking to see how that archival quality can come to life in new ways.
I’ve been following LA-based artist Daniel Rehn’s @wwwtxt for a few months now. The premise is simple: Rehn culls from internet messages posted between 1988 and 1994, before, as he writes on his site, “the multimedia revolution began to shape Web 1.0 and the modern internet.” He then finds tweet-sized chunks of text and sends them out regularly on his Twitter account. They were early days, the 80′s and 90s’s internet, and he describes them best: Another terrific resource is the image archive. What does the internet's physical structure look like? Sally Adee, features editor SCIENCE fiction author William Gibson famously described cyberspace as a shared hallucination. Most people struggle to imagine what the internet's physical structure looks like, but in Tubes, Andrew Blum sets out to find it. His first task is to disentangle our familiar, if not strictly accurate, conceptions about the internet from its actual cables, boxes and routers.
One such notion is the idea that the internet finds a route around censorship. This is true of the metaphorical overlay - take down a website and it can pop up elsewhere in an instant. But when it comes to the physical processes that prop up the metaphor, there is no going around them, as the grandmother who accidentally cut off Armenia by slicing through a cable buried in her garden showed. Tying the backstory and issues of the internet to its physical manifestations makes hard-to-grasp concepts easy to understand, even obvious. Crows are far from bird-brained Adrian Barnett, contributor. Internet Mapping Project.
What does the Internet look like? Map of the Internet. Can you draw the internet? Internet Mapping Project: Map gallery. This map appeared in the December 1998 Wired. If you are interested in using this image in some way, contact the folks at Lumeta, who own the rights to the images and technology. These are variations on the IP address-based color schemes, basically just switching around R, G, and B. These have the technical names of color schemes 0, 1, and 2. Notes Both my wife and Lillian Schwartz, a noted artist, say this is better with a black background. Easy to program, but we don't have black paper for the 36" plotter! Postscript and other higher-resolution versions are not available: they will be available commercially soon. (A pookie is an arbitrary unit of distance in the space in which the maps are laid out.)
www.opte.org/maps/mpeg/movie4.mpeg. The Internet map. The map of the Internet Like any other map, The Internet map is a scheme displaying objects’ relative position; but unlike real maps (e.g. the map of the Earth) or virtual maps (e.g. the map of Mordor), the objects shown on it are not aligned on a surface. Mathematically speaking, The Internet map is a bi-dimensional presentation of links between websites on the Internet. Every site is a circle on the map, and its size is determined by website traffic, the larger the amount of traffic, the bigger the circle.
Users’ switching between websites forms links, and the stronger the link, the closer the websites tend to arrange themselves to each other. Charges and springs To draw an analogy from classical physics, one may say that websites are electrically charged bodies, while links between them are springs. Springs pull similar websites together, and the charge does not let the bodies adjoin and pushes websites apart if there is no link between them.
Semantic web The Internet Phenomenon. The Internet map. PEER 1 Hosting Launches Map of the Internet App. Wednesday, March 6, 2013 - 04:00 While curiosity around the Internet has loomed since its inception, no one has been able to explain what the Internet physically looks like. Today, I’m excited to share that we have officially launched our Map of the Internet app, which provides a stunning 3D visualization of the Internet and all of its autonomous systems worldwide, as well as how they are connected. In 2011, we took the first step in developing this visualization with the debut of our Map of the Internet infographic poster. Driven by our continued passion for all things having to do with networking, we designed this app to further bring to life what the Internet looks like – and how the various autonomous components interact to connect the world.
UPDATE: CNNMoney has posted a video review and demonstration of the app here. Users can view Internet service providers (ISPs), Internet exchange points, universities and other organizations through two view options – Globe and Network. Credits. 10 Awesome Twitter Analytics and Visualization Tools. Recently Twitter rolled out their native analytics platform for all users and now you can get some quality data about your tweets directly from Twitter. After researching over a thousand Twitter Tools for the Twitter Tools Book I came across many Twitter analytics and visualization tools.
These Twitter tools were designed to add value by presenting a different way to visualize or analyze your tweets, the people in your network, and the tweets from the people in your network. Many tools tried to add value and failed. At least they tried. The following tools, however, stand out in my mind as exceptional or entertaining and I recommend you check them out if you want to analyze and visualize your activity on Twitter. 1. TweepsMap is an excellent Twitter tool for both analyzing and visualizing your Twitter network. As it’s name suggests it does this by showing you how your followers are distributed on a map, in terms of percentages. You can see the distribution of my followers below. Unique. 2. The maps transforming how we interact with the world. 12 September 2013Last updated at 19:35 ET By Matthew Wall Business reporter, BBC News An Ordnance Survey staff member interrogates 3D aerial mapping data The modern map is no longer an unwieldy printed publication we wrestle with on some blustery peak, but digital, data-rich, and dynamic.
It is transforming the way we interact with the world around us. Thanks to "big data", satellite navigation, GPS-enabled smartphones, social networking and 3D visualisation technology, maps are becoming almost unlimited in their functionality, and capable of incorporating real-time updates. "Advanced LED screen technology and smartphones equipped with projectors are going to transform the way we interact with maps," says Ian White, founder and chief executive of Urbanmapping.com, a San Francisco-based geoservices provider. Continue reading the main story Soon we may not even be visualising maps. End QuoteJohn GoodwinPrincipal scientist, Ordnance Survey "They may be talking to us.
Social maps 'Swan dust pillow' Norwayweb and Data Bodies. Taking tax information and putting it into real time artwork Featuring: Bjorn Magnhildoen, Norwayweb I came across the Net Artwork Norwayweb whilst receiving my usual mass of e-mails. Even though I usually use filters, far too much spam still gets through. So, like so many other's around the world, I have the arduous process of picking out what is deemed worth keeping. Lost in despair, numerous individuals choose to delete everything rather than cyphering through an ever expansive junk mail infestation. In 2004 yahoo found in their research "that the average British PC has nine 'sick days' per year, two more than the average for workers. Six of these are wasted battling with spam and three more days are lost due to viruses. As we all adapt and mutate in response to a more technologically determined world, we become something else.
Bjorn Magnhildoen is known for his various net art works, incororating databases and networks. Recent information from the carpet... [2]The Guardian. Online_communities.png (PNG Image, 1024 × 968 pixels) - Scaled (98. Mercator's Projection. The Mercator projection was invented by Gerardus Mercator, a Flemish mapmaker. His name is a latinized version of Gerhard Kramer. This is his famous world map of 1569.
A modern Mercator projection map The property of the Mercator projection map that made it useful to navigators is that it preserves angles. Lines of constant compass heading (called rhumb lines by sailors) are straight lines on this map. Just draw a straight line on the map between where you are and where you want to go, and measure the angle (almost exactly 45 degrees in this case). Earlier maps were drawn on a simple grid: each degree of latitude or longitude is the same size. It is for these reasons that we have progressively increased the degrees of latitude towards each pole in proportion to the lengthening of the parallels with reference to the equator.
How NOT to do it Many people have an incorrect idea of how Mercator's projection works. How to do it is , in units where the equator has length on the map. . . . . . To , i.e. Google and Apple Digital Mapping | Data Collection. Over the past few years, at the kinds of conferences where the world's technological elite gather to mainline caffeine and determine the course of history, Google has entertained the crowds with a contraption it calls Liquid Galaxy.
It consists of eight large LCD screens, turned on their ends and arranged in a circle, with a joystick at the centre. The screens display vivid satellite imagery from Google Earth, and the joystick permits three-dimensional "flight", so that stepping inside Liquid Galaxy feels like boarding your own personal UFO, in which you can zoom from the darkness of space down to the ocean's surface, cruising low over deserts, or inspecting the tops of skyscrapers. (The illusion of real movement is powerful; your legs may tremble.) You can swoop down to street-level in Cape Town, spot ships in the Mekong river, or lose yourself in the whiteness of Antarctica. But you don't, of course. Advertisement The transition to print gave far more people access to maps. What the Internet Actually Looks Like - Megan Garber. GeoTel Communications via Fortune and Mashable Here is what the Internet looks like: not a series of GIFs or a video of surfing goats, but a spindly collection of fiberoptic cables.
The Internet, as a physical thing, actually looks a lot like a series of tubes. We know this, of course, but it's nice to be reminded of the physical filaments that afford our digital connections. In an article in Fortune (which is, ironically, not online), the writer Andrew Blum and the graphic designer Nicolas Rapp joined forces with telecom data company GeoTel Communications to create a series of visualizations of the Internet.
Not its content, but its infrastructure. "Most people have no clue what the world's communication infrastructure looks like," GeoTel CEO Dave Drazen told Mashable of the project. The image above, as seen from the North Pole, offers the global view of the Internet's major cables. This Is the Most Detailed Picture of the Internet Ever (and Making it Was Very Illegal) Why would you need a map of the Internet? The Internet is not like the Grand Canyon. It is not a destination in a voyage that requires so many right turns and so many left turns. The Internet, as the name suggests and many of you already know, is nothing but the sum of decentralized connections between various interconnected computers that are speaking roughly the same language.
To map out those connections and visualize the place where I spend so much of my time may not have any clear use, but it intrigues the pants off me. An anonymous researcher with a lot of time on his hands apparently shares the sentiment. The resultant map isn't perfect, but it is beautiful. But on a general, half-a-million-computer level, this is what the Internet looks like in all of its gorgeous motion: This map shows the average Internet usage of the observed nodes over a 24-hour period. Hacking into 420,000 computers is highly illegal. However, these were not sophisticated attacks.
What Does the Internet Look Like? Christine Smallwood imagines the place where we live, in a freshly re-uploaded essay from The Baffler’s archives. The magazine has just re-launched; you can order issue 19 at The Baffler, and help fund its future on Kickstarter. * Also see the most detailed map of the Internet. In 2007, Popular Science broke important ground in Internet visualization theory—an ongoing effort to describe what happens behind our computer screens, or, more accurately, beyond them, inside Ethernet cables and satellites lying around in the upper atmosphere. What does all this activity look like? The answer, according to PopSci, is “an enormous, hulking Tootsie Roll pop.”
The history of the Internet is a history of metaphors about the Internet, all stumbling around this dilemma; How do we talk to each other about an invisible god? We can rule certain images out right at the start. You might be willing to call it a day with the image of a Tootsie Pop, but Popular Science isn’t stopping there. Two hypotheses: 1. The Internet in 1969. Warriors of the Net HD. Interactive map: how the brain sorts what we see. UC BERKELEY (US) — Scientists have found that the brain is wired to put the categories of objects and actions we see daily in order, and have created the first interactive map of how the brain organizes these groupings.
The result—achieved through computational models of brain imaging data collected while the subjects watched hours of movie clips—is what researchers call “a continuous semantic space.” Maps show how different categories of living and non-living objects that we see are related to one another in the brain’s “semantic space.” (Credit: Gallant lab) Some relationships between categories make sense (humans and animals share the same “semantic neighborhood”) while others (hallways and buckets) are less obvious.
A clearer understanding of how the brain organizes visual input can help with the medical diagnosis and treatment of brain disorders. Other co-authors of the study are UC Berkeley neuroscientists Shinji Nishimoto, An T. » Mapping the brain’s semantic space Rungy Chungy Cheese Bees. Dataverse | Stefan Greuter. Visualization is one of the most important communication and analysis tools available. It enables humans to process large amounts of data rapidly, to gain insights and to understand linkages and trends and to bring meaning out of complexity. However, statisticians often analyse markets based on two-dimensional graphs.
Dataverse creates a real‐time 3D environments from arbitrary sets of statistical data for the purpose of data visualisation. The real‐time generation of the 3D environment is based on a novel dynamic real‐time procedural generation approach that evaluates the data of a large dataset and subsequently generates three dimensional objects, that can be explored and manipulated through a human‐centred interface. The software framework that was developed as part of this research project may also be used as an educational tool to visualise many other different sources of data and may be adapted to produce many other models for visualisation. Project Development. MARIKO MORI : : LINK. Future Internet From Johnny Mnemonic. Tron Lightbike Scene. TRON: LEGACY Official Trailer. Measuring Influence: The Value of 3D Data Visualization. Rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDEyLzA4LzAyLzEwXzA0XzI5XzExNF9maWxlCnAJdGh1bWIJMTIwMHg5NjAwPg/5f4a24d7.
Atlas of Cyberspace - Full Content. Ever wonder what happens on the Internet every minute? | MSN .. Digg - What the Internet is talking about right now. Web Trend Map v4 | David Roessli's Empty Set.