MoMA's Design and the Elastic Mind

There is an incredible exhibit on right now at MoMA that is right up this blog's alley.

See also a nice summary from Creative Review.

Geographic preferences for social networking platforms

A breakdown by continent and country of social networking sites' relative dominance. Link. via the publics

Sir Tim Berners-Lee's Growth of the Internet

Interesting representation from Sir Tim Berners-Lee showing the development of the internet/web over time from the early headwaters to the "sea of interoperability."

This one reminded me of the topographical approach xckd took.

via BBC and this blog

iA's Web Trend Map 3

The latest and greatest from information architects. Link.

Longitudinal View

A representation of the internet by longitude, from the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis.

From CAIDA's site:

This visualization represents a macroscopic snapshot of the Internet for two weeks: August 1st, 2007 through August 15th, 2007. The graph reflects 760,922 IP addresses and 1,400,796 IP links ... We aggregate this view of the network into a topology of Autonomous Systems (ASes), each of which approximately maps to an Internet Service Provider (ISP). We map each IP address to the AS responsible for routing it, i.e., the origin (end-of-path) AS for the best match IP prefix of this address observed in Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing tables. Eighty percent of ASes with known locations are placed in the Americas, Europe/Africa, and Asia/Oceana.

via millsworks

Country domain mapping

Zooknic.com maps the relative distribution of domains in Google Earth using the concepts of political and technical location.

Undersea Internet

This map from the Guardian UK shows the undersea cable network supporting much of the world's internet access. (source: braincubes.be)