Comments on: My talk at Berkman: Mapping a connected world

By: Ars Electronica: Cloud Intelligence Symposium | Wissen belastet

Ars Electronica: Cloud Intelligence Symposium | Wissen belastet — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:40:24 +0000

[...] und dem Einfluss auf die Globalisierung beschäftigte. Die Langversion des Vortrages ist nachschaubar/nachlesbar und auf slideshare. Er endete mit dem schönen [...]

By: …My heart’s in Accra » The Cloud, and useful illusions

…My heart’s in Accra » The Cloud, and useful illusions — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:14:10 +0000

[...] talk was mostly abridged from a long talk I gave at the Berkman Center earlier this year, called Mapping a Connected World. There’s slides and a partial bibliography for that talk, and links to audio and video here. [...]

By: Arrorró: The Global Flow of Lullabies | 80+1 - A Journey Around the World

Arrorró: The Global Flow of Lullabies | 80+1 - A Journey Around the World — Sat, 23 May 2009 20:06:17 +0000

[...] Lullabies – some of the first words we hear repeated as we enter this strange journey called life – have been traveling around the world for centuries, if not millennia. While we have many interactive atlases of human migration over the past 200,000 years, there are few atlases that illustrate the migration of culture. [...]

By: Maps of flow, not just infrastructure | The Daily Clique

Maps of flow, not just infrastructure | The Daily Clique — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:09:41 +0000

[...] Mapping a connected world [via migurski] To understand how the world really works, we need maps, not just of infrastructure, but of flow. We need maps not just of the internet and shipping lanes, but maps that help us understand who and what we pay attention to, how we get information, what we know and what we don’t know. A partnership with the Public Catalogue Foundation charity will see all the UK’s publicly owned oil paintings – 80% of which are not on public display – placed on the internet by 2012. [...]

By: Maps of flow, not just infrastructure | The Daily Clique

Maps of flow, not just infrastructure | The Daily Clique — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:31:51 +0000

[...] Mapping a connected world [...]

By: Infrastructure, Intent, and Power « Radical Instrument

Infrastructure, Intent, and Power « Radical Instrument — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 02:42:06 +0000

[...] Center last week on “Mapping Globalization” – for the summary version, see the related post on Ethan’s blog). His talk discusses the significance of mapping flow across infrastructure [...]

By: Ethan

Ethan — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:13:49 +0000

Lovely idea, Dave – I’d need to see if anyone at Expedia would cooperate… or Kayak… but it would be an interesting way of pulling out that data.

Search engine data, in general, is fun stuff for figuring out intent.

By: davesgonechina

davesgonechina — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:58:40 +0000

Re: intent maps – the search tool for travel websites like Expedia.com allow users to type in their departure and destination cities.

Could you just collect all that, smooth out misspellings, and start to get a rough idea of how many times people search for direct flights that don’t exist?

By: Leonard

Leonard — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 03:52:22 +0000

Haha, the apron looks great. I would volunteer to talk at Berkman Center for that. :)

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:58:10 +0000

Thanks for the link to the talk video.

Chris Blattman’s blog in October referenced a really interesting piece by Paul Krugman which uses the history of European mapmaking of Africa as a metaphor for the evolution of epistemology in economics. The paper is here:

http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/dishpan.html

Seems like it’s related to the issue of what kinds of information are important enough (and available) for people to put into maps.