Mapping Scientific Frontiers : http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~cc345/citespace/Figure4.png At some point, challenges to the prevailing wisdom become strong enough to put science in crisis. The crisis is finally resolved with a transition from the old paradigm to a new, more compelling model. http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20040313/mathtrek.asp A scientific revolution occurs. Chaomei Chen has a Web site devoted to his CITESPACE project at http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~cc345/citespace/.

http://www.markmonmonier.com/index.htm writes books that explore the impact of cartography on society.

Supposedly http://www.shreddies.org/gmaps/ archives has neat stuff hidden in Google's satellite images.

A Beginner's Guide to TrackBack ; designed to provide a method of notification between websites: it is a method of person A saying to person B, "This is something you may be interested in." : http://www.movabletype.org/trackback/beginners/

Bootstrapping: The Secret to Entrepreneurial Success : http://www.sandhill.com/opinion/editorial.php?id=16

"Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do." - Liz Smith
"My final thought is a simple but mighty one: it is the obligation we have been given. It is to not turn out the same. It is to grow, to accomplish, to change the world." - Stephen Sondheim, Merrily We Roll Along
"We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents." - Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance"
"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it." - Emerson
"Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams." - Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1803-1882) American Essayist & Poet
"This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it, reminds me of the Englishman who went to India to make a fortune first, in order that he might return to England and live the life of a poet. He should have gone up garret at once." - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American Author

"Everything I've written here is dedicated to the Public Domain. The quotes from other people's writings, and the pictures used might or might not be copyrighted, but are considered fair use. Thus, overall, this weblog could best be described as being: Primarily Public Domain."

Outline Maps : http://www.cdli.ca/CITE/maps.htm#Others

One such Babylonian clay tablet that has been generally accepted as "the earliest known map" is the artifact unearthed in 1930 : http://www.atamanhotel.com/catalhoyuk/oldest-map.html

Shot Chart (Basketball) Map : http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/shotchart?gameId=250407013

"... the maps that we create to represent reality also create reality." - http://mappinghacks.com/talks/sudac_2005-04-05/slide17.html?1112720651 "Other people's maps tell other people's stories."

(from http://www.oursouthwest.com/news/quotes5wit.htm )
"The team on top of the mountain didn't fall there." - unattributable
"Are you climbing the right hill today?" - unattributable
"Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved." - unattributable
The measure of a true leader: "Is anyone following?" - unattributable
"We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are." - Max DePree
"When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills ."- Chinese proverb
"If you want things to stay the same, they are going to have to change." - Lampedusa's The Leopard
"The surest path to happiness is in losing yourself in a cause greater than yourself." - unattributable
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say." - Will Durant, American historian (1885-1981)

(Analytical Data Mining discovers patterns in data). Visualization: Accelerates the process + Utilizes the brain's pattern recognition abilities + Facilitates interactivity and collaboration + Highlights patterns, trends and outliers + Aids distribution and action on results (from http://www.purpleinsight.com/aboutus/ ).

"Get mapping" As mapmaking becomes big business, citizen cartographers are creating free personal alternatives ; http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1453293,00.html Maps also shape our view of the world. The art of mapmaking predates the written word by several millennia and provided humankind with the first opportunity to read and write. When our maps change, our world view changes.

Semantic Web Subway Map (Berners-Lee, 2003) : http://infoether.com/template.jsp?page=semantic make the realization of system-to-system interaction viable by utilizing a set of “ontologies” which define information about information (metadata) that can be read and understood by computers.

US History TimeLine Map (Flash) : http://www.boltmap.com/ Animated Map and Timeline of the U.S. region showing political border changes from prehistory to 2000 A.D. The map advances at 10 years per second. You can play, stop, move forward or backward one year at a time and select dates from the timeline.

Discoverers Web : Links and information on voyages of discovery.

"Innovation and Visualization.Trajectories, Strategies, and Myths", by IONE, Amy (http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=CLA+1 ) relates the development of visual images to innovations in art, communication, scientific research, and technological advance.

Cook, James, (1728-1779), " Journal of the H.M.S. Endeavour" : http://nla.gov.au/nla.ms-ms1-s256r , http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview?pi=nla.ms-ms1-s18v-e

Read last year: "A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer : The Life of William Dampier" : http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0802714250/qid=1112889728/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/102-4468721-5628951?v=glance&s=books

Lanny Quarles; Layer upon layer of information can be seen in his work and it truly speaks to the nature of today´s intellectual milieu - a deluge of impossible to navigate knowledge sets that intertwine, interconnect and coexist along side of private, secret and personal worlds that will remain forever anonymous. : http://contemporary-art-gallery.touchon.com/quarles-lanny.html

"The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery." - Anais Nin
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." - Bill Cosby
"If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?" - Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Online (ESRI ArcIMS?) GIS application: http://gis.leepa.org/viewer.htm

Interesting array of motivational info-graphics : http://www.infoshop.org/a_graphics.html

Stock.XCHNG, the leading FREE stock photo site : http://sxc.hu/ morgueFile contains free high resolution digital stock photographs : http://www.morguefile.com/ PixelPerfect Digitalhttp://www.pixelperfectdigital.com/ You are permitted to use our products to design as many projects as necessary, including those you are creating for your clients", OpenPhotohttp://www.openphoto.net/ to unite photographers and users through Creative Commons licensing, ImageAfterhttp://www.imageafter.com/ (people who donate images agreed to give up their rights to the images ), StockVaulthttp://www.stockvault.net/, http://www.ourmedia.org/
Ourmedia is a new (still in alpha) non-commercial free clearinghouse for all rich-media content that wants to be shared, re-used and enjoyed by as many people as possible. Related Tag Browser search interface (developed by AirtightInteractive, the most effective way to search for visual resources).

Hell maps : http://www.arches.uga.edu/~redman/hellhigh.html, http://www.wsu.edu/~hughesc/dante_map_hell.htm , http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/dante/images/magnifier2.html , Original "MAP OF DANTE'S HELL" : http://www.dac.neu.edu/uc/s.cassavant/HellMap.html , http://www.tabula-rasa.info/Horror/Inferno.html , and (Flash-zoomable) http://www.iath.virginia.edu/dante/images/magnifier3.html .

"One of the biggest impediments one has in discovering their own seeds these days, is their fascination with the gardens of others." - The Universe

Context and Interaction in Zoomable User Interfaces : http://www.infres.enst.fr/net/zomit/avi2000/ "Zoomable User Interfaces (ZUIs) are difficult to use on large information spaces in part because they provide insufficient context. Even after a short period of navigation users no longer know where they are in the information space nor where to find the information they are looking for."

Mapviewer (Chromosome map viewing tools) : http://www.sgn.cornell.edu/maps/mapviewer/mapviewerAbout.html

Different approaches to finding and exploring satellite imagery are offered by TerraFly, Google Maps, Terraserver.com, and TerraServer USA (operated by Microsoft Corporation as a research project; overview of how the service works).

Great Ideas of Philosophy (60 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture) : http://www.teach12.com/ttc/assets/coursedescriptions/4200.asp

Rhetorical Topoi : A rhetorical device, topoi facilitate a shift of mind, to see ordinary problems from a new angle, so as to incite invention, spark discovery...Use topoi by posing questions, seeing things as opposites, making correlations, reversing definitions, rotating positions in argument, changing roles, overturning the standard, and so on. From http://www.udanium.com/udanium2003/html/sparks.htm

16 x 21 panels (each 2' square) http://www.muralmosaic.com/A-S/Alberta-Sask.html "The collective power of individual expression". (CELEBRATE ALBERTA - SASKATCHEWAN CENTENNIAL 1905 -2005!)

"To all who are passionately dedicated to the search for new “epiphanies” of beauty so that through their creative work as artists they may offer these as gifts to the world." from LETTER OF POPE JOHN PAUL II TO ARTISTS, 1999 : http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/letters/documents/hf_jp-ii_let_23041999_artists_en.html
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference." - Robert Frost, "The Road Not Taken"
"It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters, in the end."- Ursula Le Guin
"The future belongs to those who fuse intelligence with faith, and who with courage and determination grope their way forward from chance to choice, from blind adaptation to creative evolution." - Charles E. Marriam
"The delight of creative work lies in self-discovery: you are mining nuggets of power out of your own cosmos, and the find comes as a great and glad surprise." - Elbert Hubbard
"No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever." - Francois Muriac
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain
from http://maverickjs.tripod.com/hanger/thoughts7.html
"I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect." - J. Krishnamurti
"The image is but a shadow, The truth is but a reflection of the whole, The whole cannot be told, Do not attempt to know, Be content with what you get, Do the best you can." - http://www.artists.co.il/ttc/nfquotes.html#qiamn
"Where" you are, is never who you are (it's just a transitory step along the path) . You're always Infinitely more." - The Universe
"Be light unto yourselves. Rely upon yourself; do not depend upon anyone else." - Buddha's last words

GeoBase is a high performance OEM tool for embedding GIS functions in client and server applications : http://www.freetrialdownloads.com/Development-Software/C-and-C-Plus-Plus-and-C-Sharp/GeoBase.html

"... it is in this intersection between geographic data and temporal data where the most interesting problems and opportunities lie. " : http://www.geospatial-online.com/geospatialsolutions/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=153302

Where to Get Maps : http://exchange.manifold.net/manifold/manuals/manifold/introduction/where_to_get_maps.htm
Flickr-related tab browser (using a radial presentation) : http://www.airtightinteractive.com/projects/related_tag_browser/app/ All time most popular tags (by size) : http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags

What is a Wordmap? : http://www.flickr.com/groups/extispicious/pool/
Mindmap Conceptmap Imagemap Spatial Chunking Software CyberMaps ThinkMap

You Are Here: The Design of Information : http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/gallery/0,8542,1406256,00.html

Fractal (pixelized) pattern generator : http://www.complexification.net/gallery/machines/invaderfractal/ Built with Macromedia Flash MX


Modern-day treasure hunt http://www.atreasurestrove.com/Public/TheTreasureHunt/index.cfm (ala geo-caching?) based on a 10'x10' "map"? to publicize books http://www.atreasurestrove.com/Public/TheBook/PuzzleCompanionBook/index.cfm "You'll begin to think like a treasure hunter when you learn to look for things you wouldn't ordinarily notice."

"You never feel safe when you have to navigate in waters which are completely blank." - Lieutenant Maxwell Member, Bering's Second Polar Expedition.
"Writing about Mapping is like Dancing about Art" - RW

The Odyssey of Alexander the Great : http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/Renault/boy.mp.html Animation ; http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/Animation/alexander.html

Effective roll-over / drop-down Timeline presentation : http://www.radford.edu/~wkovarik/envhist/index.html

" Why do scientists call it research when they're looking for something new? " - ?