Inhabited Information Spaces http://www.iisbook.com/
Inhabited Information Spaces (IIS) are a means to fuse the representation of information with a representation of the people using it thereby helping to put the information in context. The field of (IIS) (sometimes referred to as Populated Information Terrains, or PITs) overlaps that of Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVEs) as CVEs are one of the preferred inmplementation techniques for visualisation information in a collaborative way. The key point is that the space used to represent the information is also inhabited by the users of that information whether virtual (via avatars) or by their normal physical presence.

The British Library has one of the best map collections you will ever find. Sometimes they have maps on public display in the first floor exhibit rooms, but any special interest maps must be requested in the Map Library http://www.bl.uk/collections/map_overview_history.html

MicroPublishing:
The goal of this Robin Good Mini-Guide is to provide Communication Agents, professionals, academics, librarians, journalists and researchers with the means to search and collect highly selective information from the Internet without engaging themselves in repeated long visits to reference sites or in intense Google searching. http://www.masternewmedia.org/reports/newsgod/

http://www.picsearch.com/ Most popular picture searches of the week

IDEA: "Multiple Expossure" PhotoMontage - contains multiple perspectives of important elements in one image (cubist?), montaging short choppy video sequences into a single frame. Only faces are left photo realistic, other parts 'special affected' down to line drawings / hatching.

GeoBase is a federal, provincial and territorial government initiative that is overseen by the Canadian Council on Geomatics (CCOG). It is undertaken to ensure the provision of, and access to, a common, up-to-date and maintained base of quality geospatial data for all of Canada. Through the GeoBase portal, users with an interest in the field of geomatics have access to quality geospatial information at no cost and with unrestricted use. http://geobase.ca

IDEA to do a comical log of a high tech startup chronicling challenges and setbacks (possibly using single panel info-graphic approach).

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