Personalised and Collaborative Trails of Digital and Non-Digital Learning Objects : www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/trails/ To apply new technologies to the challenge of trail-support in e-Learning.

Authors Paul Arthur and Romedi Passini coined the terms "signage" and "http://www.paularthur-wayfinding.com/pages/0061chapters.html#Anchor-Chapter-45521 )the use of pictograms, words, colors, and architecture to help people find their way quickly and easily in a built environment (this book has become a standard on the subject for graphic designers and architects worldwide : http://www.paularthur-wayfinding.com/pages/1006contents.html ).

Computer Geek's History of the Internet : http://www.wbglinks.net/pages/history/ (via Stephen's Web )

Report by by Charles Leadbeater and Paul Miller that makes it clear that (not merely an internet phenomenon); 'pro-ams', as they call them, are sweeping through all sectors of society. : http://www.demos.co.uk/proamrevolutionfinal_pdf_media_public.aspx (via Stephen's Web )

"Some people can read a musical score and in their minds hear the music... Others can see, in their mind's eye, great beauty and structure in certain mathematical functions...Lesser folks, like me, need to hear music played and see numbers rendered to appreciate their structures." -Peter B. Schroeder
"All experience shows that technological changes profoundly transform political and social relationships." -John von Neumann
"They that would give up essential liberty to attain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin

"...consider taking the path less traveled, going within, and getting quiet. Being yourself, shining your light, and reaching out to others.... not that they might be an alternative to living high on the hog, in the fast lane, loaded down with embarrassing wealth... but as a means to attaining these things." - The Universe

The End of Free Maps (?) : http://www.directionsmag.com/blog/archives/304-The-End-of-Free-Maps.html How long can free survive?

The IT Roadmap series, developed by Jeff Tash, was created to help visually explain and simplify the overwhelming complexity associated with IT computing. : http://www.flashmapsystems.com/products/itroadmaps/itroadmap-overview.htm IT Infrastructure Roadmap , Application Development Roadmap , Business Intelligence Roadmap , COTS Applications Roadmap , At-A-Glance Roadmap . The founders of Flashmap Systems have played a key role over the past two decades in developing and disseminating intuitive, visual, and taxonomic frameworks for modeling enterprise architectures.

Clarity Map: Your Personal Decision Guide : http://www.thinksmart.com/inmembership/workshops/clarity_map.html It helps you look at the decision from the perspective of who you are and where you found your successes, and failures, in the past.

How Image Links Can Help Build a Better User and Search Experience : http://www.searchengineguide.com/claiborne/2005/0615_sc1.html

Learning CSS : http://9rules.com/whitespace/learning_css.php

Trend Report for: http://www.1-900-870-6235.com/ : http://www.urltrends.com/viewtrend.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.1-900-870-6235.com Archive.org Listed: 19 results Cache: View Latest

"We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies." - Thomas Dekker
"A wise man poor, Is like a sacred book that's never read,
To himself he lives, and to all else seems dead.
This age thinks better of a gilded fool
Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school." - Thomas Dekker
"Some people are working backstage, some are playing in the orchestra, some are on-stage singing, some are in the audience as critics, some are there to applaud. Know who and where you are." -
"Actually, it's not that there are recurring themes in a lifetime, but that there are recurring choices." - The Universe

Gallery of hand-drawn maps : http://www.subk.net/mapsindex.html ...the maps as a "psychological profile of how they [the mapmakers] see themselves and their "place" in this world (usually as defined by everyone else)."

"Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your Company Strategy—in Pictures. Preparing a company strategy can bury you in data. Make it easier by drawing a strategy picture, advises this excerpt from Harvard Business Review. Here’s how Southwest Airlines found "The Big Picture." : http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=3020&t=strategy

Overview Maps : In several studies of pre-Web hypertexts, having an overview map of the information space improved users' performance between 12% and 41%. Knowing where you are, where you've been, and where you can go is a significant help in navigating online information. : http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20050103.html

Attractive Vectormaps - a call for well arranged webmaps : http://www.svgopen.org/2002/papers/dahinden__good_map_graphics/ Keywords: Mapping with SVG; Cartography; Interaction and Animation; Layout; basic principles for designing visually attractive maps.

Financial Maps : http://www.smartmoney.com/maps/ Map of the Market Map Your Portfolio Market Map 1000 ETF Map Mutual Fund MapRisk Map 1000 Sector Maps Fund Map 1000

http://www.sitemapspal.com/ : tool for creating Google sitemaps xml file for your server, to use with the google sitemaps program. Simply type in your domain name and our spider will fetch all the links on your page and create and xml file for you to upload onto your own website. Discussed at http://www.researchbuzz.org/google_announces_google_sitemaps_.shtml

Spatial Aspects of Task-Specific Wayfinding Maps; A representation-theoretic perspective : http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/kcdc/books/VR99/Freksa.html

Many good "map" definitions : http://www.answers.com/map

Special (?) Guest Visitor: to http://www.1-900-870-6235.com/BurkeMap.htm
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"Illusion is the first of all pleasures." - Oscar Wilde

Sample image map that's built entirely using CSS and XHTML : http://www.frankmanno.com/ideas/css-imagemap/ (to provide image annotation functionality similar to available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/ginatrapani/1196925/ ).

..location aware devices (know your place) : http://www.headmap.org/ interesting manifesto at http://www.headmap.org/headmap.pdf

"We (Google-backed) have been building technology for digitising commercial city blocks from sideways-looking video taken from a vehicle driving down the street," writes Stanford researcher Marc Levoy on the project's homepage. "Possible applications include in-car navigation, online route visualisation, and web-based tourism." : http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7509

Dutch artist M. C. Escher tilings : http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/junkyard/escher.html

Stick Figures in Peril / Pool / Tags / sign : http://www.flickr.com/groups/stickfiguresinperil/pool/tags/sign/

"Point of view is worth 80 IQ points" - Alan Kay

"Do what you love - and see what unfolds." - Gurteen

"The principal mark of a genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers." - Arthur Koestler
"It takes immense genius to represent, simply and sincerely, what we see in front of us." - Edmond Duranty
"Genius . . . is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one." - Ezra Pound
"A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see, and hits it." - Author unknown
"Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored." - Abraham Lincoln
"The willingness and ability to challenge conventional wisdom. Perhaps even more importantly, scientific genius depends on an instinct for invention, an ability to focus on the problem at hand, and a determination to pursue that problem to a successful conclusion." - Author unknown
(all from http://www.ecopsych.com/think3genius.html ).

"You must have chaos in your heart to give birth to a dancing star." - Friedrich Nietzsche

By placing a Sitemap-formatted file on your webserver, you enable our crawlers to find out what pages are present and which have recently changed, and to crawl your site accordingly. Creating your sitemaps is easy Use the Sitemap Generator to create an XML Sitemap or submit a simple text file with all your URLs. http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login . Project discussion at http://sourceforge.net/projects/goog-sitemapgen

Map Watch News : http://www.mapwatch.com/news-blog/

Mind mapping related RSS feed : AKS-Labs has run the RSS feed called "Knowledge Representation News" where you can learn more about knowledge visualization and representation (mind, concept and process mapping). Mind Pad RSS is available as XML feed at http://www.mind-pad.com/rss.xml and as a blog: http://www.mind-pad.com/rss/mind-pad.html. Users of Yahoo can add RSS channel directly to yahoo pages: http://add.my.yahoo.com/rss?url=http://mind-pad.com/rss.xml

Things Round : http://transitofvenus.org/round.htm (most related to transit of Venus).

"If God himself has waited six thousand years for someone to contemplate his works, my book can wait for a hundred." - Johannes Kepler
"By definition, if you don't change the rules, you aren't a revolutionary, and if you don't think different, you won't change the rules." - Guy Kawasaki, in 'Rules for Revolutionaries'
"Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself." - Dorris Lessing

Google TakeDown: "I find it somewhat ironic that a company that makes a significant portion of it's revenue by deep-linking to sites is sending takedown notices to people who deep-link their site. " : http://slashdot.org/articles/05/06/08/203208.shtml ...we would appreciate it if you voluntarily remove your service and stop using Google Maps on your web site.

Mumbai Free Map : This project has been developed using completely free and open source software (Map Server, GRASS, QGIS) and copyleft and public geographic data (http://www.crit.org.in/projects/gis ).

Newsletter of the Society for the History of Discoveries : http://www.sochistdisc.org/news_letter/terra-cognita_1.htm

"This articulates what could be our cartographic motto: a strong sense of specificity, even though everything is made up."