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	About		Mappa.Mundi Magazine maps the journey from data to understanding, revealing invisible worlds of information on the way.
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	All Over The Map
	About		All Over The Map goes behind the barricades of the information revolution for an eclectic look at notable people, trends, and ideas.
	Author		Carl Malamud is a member of media.org and the founder of the Internet Multicasting Service.
	Archive		01/01/00		Memory Palaces - When a roof failed in Thessaly, a poet found the first information space.
			10/01/99		A Shared Reality - Maps, metaphors, and meta-information.
			09/15/99		The Importance of Being EDGAR - Carl Malamud and the SEC have a long and interesting history together.
			08/01/99		The Internet Prayer Wheel - A silent and invisible tribute to the late Jon Postel.
			07/01/99		Multicasting Matters - Multicasting isn't just for cheap TV tricks.
			06/01/99		E-Work - Beyond Open Source there's work that needs doing.

	Locus
	About		Locus is a series about words that describe places and how these words have shaped and been shaped by language, culture and society through the ages.
	Author		Stephanie Faul, director of public relations for the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety.
	Archive		06/01/00		The Country of the Dead - Where do people go when they die?
			05/01/00		Meridian - Slicing the globe.
			04/01/00		The Four-Color Map Problem - A topologist met a topographer - they talked tints.
			03/01/00		Interferometry - Space Shuttle Endeavour's radar eyes are giving us a clearer picture of earth topography.
			02/01/00		Finding the Poles - Places with no east or west.
			01/01/00		Prince Henry, The Navigator - From the end of the Earth a medieval prince launched an age of exploration.
			12/01/99		Time and Place - Call them smart bombs if you will - fact is, they're only following instructions.
			11/01/99		Imaginary Places - In a storyteller's dreamscape, monkeys can fly.
			10/01/99		Triangulation - Map makers need to know all the angles.
			09/01/99		Atlas - A Titan's burden becomes a cartographer's collection.
			08/15/99		Secrecy - Sometimes, it's what a map doesn't show.
			08/01/99		Topography - Cartography has its ups and downs.
			07/15/99		Projection - Gerardus Mercator was a controversial cartographer in the 16th century. He still is.
			07/01/99		Portolan - The magnetic compass, along with the portolan map, fostered a revolution in marine navigation.
			06/15/99		Map - Map making is an ancient art.
			06/01/99		Orbis Terrarum - Globe of the World.

	Map of the Month
	About		Map of the Month probes the geography of cyberspaces and how researchers are creating graphical representations that help define our perception of virtual spaces.
	Author		Martin Dodge, researcher in the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), University College London.
	Archive		12/31/01		Mostly Cloudy, Clearing Later - Network Weather Maps.
			09/21/01		Imagining the Inner Workings of the Internet - The Warriors of the Net Movie.
			08/15/01		Show Me The Money - SmartMoney.Com's Map of the Market.
			06/23/01		Mapping how people use a website - MIT Media Lab's Ben Fry discusses his anemone visualization.
			05/23/01		Flowing From Site to Site - Brian Reid's USENET Traffic Flow Maps (circa 1986-95).
			03/31/01		What Does the Internet Look Like, Jellyfish Perhaps? - Exploring Walrus, a visualization of the Internet by Young Hyun of CAIDA.
			02/10/01		The Netscan Project - Marc Smith on mapping the social geography of Usenet news.
			01/12/01		Fly Through The Web - HotSauce, developed at Apple Research in the mid-1990s, was an innovative 3D fly-through interface for navigating information spaces.
			11/01/00		Indexing The Web With Geography - A look at the UK Academic Map, one of the best examples of a geographic sensitive map.
			10/01/00		Mapping the Geography of Domain Names - A look at Matthew Zook's Internet Geography Project.
			09/01/00		Newsmaps - Examining Cartia's topographic approach to mapping of information.
			08/01/00		TeleGeography's Traffic Flow Maps - Telegeography's Net flow maps are based on the volume of international telephone traffic between nations.
			06/01/00		Mapping a Virtual City - What would a virtual city in cyberspace look like?
			05/01/00		Maps to Market Your Network - How UUNET markets their infrastructure using maps.
			04/01/00		Mapping the Global Spread of the Net - The virus-like spread of the Internet around the globe is the subject of a series by Larry Landweber.
			03/01/00		Conceptual Map of Net Spaces Circa '94 - There's an Internet beyond the Web on John December's CyberMap Landmarks.
			02/01/00		A Map of Yahoo! - Would an interactive map of Yahoo!'s hierarchical classification be a more useful navigational tool?
			01/01/00		Missile Tracks Across The Net - Stephen G. Eick's color coded arches have become popular icons for visualizing the Internet.
			12/01/99		MIDS Maps the Internet World - John S. Quarterman's Matrix Internet and Directory Services consultancy has been mapping cyberspace for a decade.
			11/01/99		Web Site Maps from Dynamic Diagrams - Z-Diagrams help designers visualize large Web sites in two-and-a-half dimensions.
			10/01/99		Mapping MUDs - Multi-User Dimensions are shared fantasy realms built of words and visible only in a player's mind. Can they be mapped?
			09/01/99		Mapping How The Data Flows - The links and hops of the hidden world of the Internet are revealed as Martin Dodge puts three traceroute mapping programs to the test.
			08/01/99		Internet Arcs Around The Globe (1996) - Arcs above the globe trace MBone topology in a map series by Munzer, et al.
			07/01/99		Tim Bray's Hyperlink Totems (1995) - Totem pole icons of Web sites glow with hyperlink light in Tim Bray's 1995 map of the Internet.
			06/01/99		ARPANET, October 1980 - One of the earliest attempts to chart the reaches of Cyberspace, it reminds us that today's Internet is a cold war child.

	Reviews
	About		Our review section takes an occasional look at thought-provoking work in literature, film, music, and other arts.
	Authors		Various.
	Archive		03/01/01		The Victorian Internet - A fascinating story of the telegraph by Tom Standage.
			02/12/01		World Wide Wunderkammer - Digital artists create a global online wunderkammer.
			01/01/00		Exploration in the Ice - Books on the British Antarctic Expeditions.
			10/01/99		Quatermass and the Pit - For SF at its best, try this 1967 alien invasion film, now available on DVD.
			09/01/99		MP3-Closeup 'Thin' terview - An interview with D.C. based electronica musician Mike Curtis.
			08/01/99		Edgard Varèse: Complete Works - Excellent recordings of a 20th century master.
			06/05/99		The Clay Machine-Gun - Vladimir Ilich Chapaev travels into an absolute void in a novel by Victor Pelevin.

	Trip-M
	About		Trip-M journeys to the center of social, political and economic issues of interest to the technology community.
	Author		Marty Lucas, Founding Editor of Mappa.Mundi Magazine.
	Archive		04/01/00		Demystifying Metadata - What exactly is metadata and where do I find it in my content?
			01/01/00		Knowing the Rules - A conversation with UC Berkeley economics professor Hal Varian.
			12/01/99		Mining in Textual Mountains - An interview with Marti Hearst, Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley's School of Information Management and Systems.
			11/01/99		Saving Private Art - An interview with Rebecca Hargrave on digital storytelling.
			10/01/99		Seeing the Sound - Audio spectrograms can map any sonic event - and you can make your own.
			09/01/99		Getting Tufte - Review of Edward Tufte's one day class on information design.
			06/01/99		Pastures in the Sea - NASA oceanographer M. Grey Valenti explains the SeaWiFS project.

	Visions
	About		Visions invites guest visionaries to report on what they see when they peer into cyberspace.
	Authors		Guest Visionaries.
	Archive		06/01/00		I see words - by Frances Sherwood, Professor of English, Indiana University South Bend
			12/01/99		I See Dancing Beans - by Jeffrey Zeldman, Web pundit and independent content developer.
			11/01/99		I see business as usual - by Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert.
			10/01/99		I see points and spaces of light - by Esther Dyson, chairman of EDventure Holdings, Inc.
			09/01/99		I see bridges - by Judi Harris, University of Texas at Austin's College of Education.
			08/15/99		I see a Wisdom Space - by Bernard Tan, Dean of Students, University of Singapore.
			08/01/99		I see a new Renaissance - by Eugene Garfield, President and Editor-in-Chief of The Scientist.
			07/01/99		I see toasters - by Vint Cerf, senior VP of Internet Architecture and Technology at MCI WorldCom.
			06/15/99		I see maps of the Internet - by Bill Joy, Chief Scientist of Sun Microsystems.
			06/01/99		I see an elephant - by Paul Jones, director of the UNC MetaLab.

	Web Informant
	About		Web Informant discusses current trends and events of interest to Web-based marketers and publishers.
	Author		David Strom, networking and communications consultant.
	Archive		06/01/00		Web Informant #201 - Better Design
			05/26/00		Web Informant #200 - We need volunteers.
			05/19/00		Web Informant #199 - Lessons learned from the demise of Boo.com
			05/12/00		Web Informant #198 - The auction is now open.
			05/01/00		Web Informant #197 - Surfing on company time.
			04/20/00		Web Informant #196 - The Big Blur.
			04/10/00		Web Informant #195 - Evaluating the new wireless Web applications.
			04/05/00		Web Informant #194 - Appreciating the innovations of Palm and AOL.
			03/27/00		Web Informant #193 - A plea to return to single tasking.
			03/20/00		Web Informant #192 - The hidden privacy hazards of HTML E-mail.
			03/14/00		Web Informant #191 - Learning from Napster.
			03/01/00		Web Informant #190 - What becomes a location most?
			02/18/00		Web Informant #189 - Desperately seeking broadband.
			02/10/00		Web Informant #188 - A letter from Nepal.
			02/04/00		Web Informant #187 - The DotCom People.
			02/01/00		Web Informant #186 - My first firewall.
			01/22/00		Web Informant #185 - Joining an affiliates network.
			01/16/00		Web Informant #184 - Managing Web systems effectively.
			01/09/00		Web Informant #183 - Getting Internet access when you travel.
			01/01/00		Web Informant #182 - Buying a car online.
			12/20/99		Web Informant #181 - The Shipping News, or when you absolutely, positively have to know.
			12/12/99		Web Informant #180 - Measuring Web performance.
			12/06/99		Web Informant #179 - Shopping on the Web, two days seems like an eternity.
			12/01/99		Web Informant #178 - Internet groupware can give you competitive advantage.
			11/21/99		Web Informant #177 - Keeping your contacts in sync.
			11/15/99		Web Informant #176 - It's hard work protecting your family's PCs.
			11/08/99		Web Informant #175 - Using e-mail to effectively communicate with your customers.
			11/01/99		Web Informant #174 - Son of (return of) push.
			10/24/99		Web Informant #173 - E-mail paranoia.
			10/18/99		Web Informant #172 - Preserving online archives.
			10/11/99		Web Informant #171 - Don't let shoppers name their price.
			10/04/99		Web Informant #170 - Attention loyal shoppers.
			09/21/99		Web Informant #169 - Why search engines are clueless.
			09/12/99		Web Informant #168 - You've Got (Hot) Mail.
			09/07/99		Web Informant #167 - Using CNN for network management.
			08/27/99		Web Informant #166 - Making Beautiful Music on Your PC.
			08/20/99		Web Informant #165 - Recommended Reading.
			08/15/99		Web Informant #164 - Picking the right fat pipe.
			08/08/99		Web Informant #163 - The coming broadband congestion.
			08/04/99		Web Informant #162 - When bad things happen to good PCs.
			07/26/99		Web Informant #161 - Let the Instant Messaging Battles Begin.
			07/15/99		Web Informant #160 - I've Been Hacked.
			06/21/99		Web Informant #159 - A Teen-Eyed View of Moneyopolis.
			06/14/99		Web Informant #158 - Slouching towards MyHardDisk.com.
			06/01/99		Web Informant #157 - What is the real price of free PCs?
			05/23/99		Web Informant #156 - More on how to start your own mailing list.
			05/17/99		Web Informant #155 - What's in a (domain) name?
			05/12/99		Web Informant #154 - Do you really want Windows CE on your TV?
			05/04/99		Web Informant #153 - Thoughts on computers in the schools.
			04/27/99		Web Informant #152 - Denial Is...not just a river in Egypt.
			04/15/99		Web Informant #151 - How to spam your friends.
			04/04/99		Web Informant #150 - Welcome to Update Planet.
			03/29/99		Web Informant #149 - Beware of Microsoft's XML.
			03/22/99		Web Informant #148 - Will the Real Internet Inventor Please Stand Up?
			03/15/99		Web Informant #147 - Choosing the right pocket-sized gizmo for your email needs.
			03/10/99		Web Informant #146 - Figuring out home networking options.
			03/05/99		Web Informant #145 - Home Networking Ain't Easy.
			10/29/98		Web Informant #129 - Buy Internet service, get a free PC.
			11/17/97		Web Informant #092 - Getting your email on the road.

	Miscellaneous
	About		Miscellaneous
			10/01/99		Smells Like VRML - The distance between theory and practice is always smaller in theory than it is in practice.
			09/01/99		Wagat Surveys - Fine Dining On Sand Hill Road.

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