Distribution of NY Times Online news

Here is another map illustrating the distribution of online news stories over world geography.
This map shows world countries shaded according to the number of search results from the last year at nytimes.com divided by the number of citizens in each country. Link

Ambiguous map from 2007

This 2007 map by ExploMap shows a distribution of websites over a world map. Their website says it is "based on the websites world classification carried out by Alexa and ComScore. The websites traffic is correlated with the surface of the countries." I wasn't able to tell from their site whether the most "popular" website in each country is listed or if this is relating the relative surface area of countries to the corresponding size/traffic of major websites. (the second seems more plausible given some of the site names...any insight out there on this?) Link to full map

VerveEarth

VerveEarth plots out blogs by their (self-identified) geographic location (look for Internet Geography in Stamford, CT). Described as "a new way to reach your favorite websites and surf the net," VerveEarth lets you navigate by categories listed across the top and, if you register, you can mark your favorite "destinations." The clean google maps interface brings a nice visual experience to literally travelling the web.

Navigate the Webby Award Winners

UPDATE: The 2008 Winners have been announced, using the same interactive interface.

7/24/2007 Post:
The Webby Award people have posted an interactive interface to explore all those award-winning 2007 websites.

Informational distance between cities

This is a visualization of the "informational distance between cities" as measured by the "google proximity" and geographic distance...all explained on this very simple and beautiful site.

via infosthetics.com

2008 Webware 100

The winners for 2008's Webware 100 are just out and the winner's list is a nicely categorized directory of what's great on the web right now.

Web 2.0, 3.0, 4.0....

This may have been out there for a while, but I just came across this basic visual representation of the evolution of the web over time.
Via webware.com

http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/bto/20080418/webtimeline.jpg