Jo Walsh is creator and curator of the spacenamespace project, an adventure in collaborative mapping. As an ambitious first step, she is overseeing the building of an interactive map of London, accessible via an instant messaging bot. WriteTheWeb asked her to explain the roots of the idea, and how it is progressing. Her answer follows.
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Interview: Tim Bray of map.net talks to WriteTheWeb about the site - why it's there, what it's all about, and what new features are on the way.
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Convention has it that the internet cannot be governed by any nation's existing laws and statutes, because it is a borderless, global medium. Rubbish, says law professor Jack Goldsmith, that's a myth that's just been exploded by the Yahoo-Nazi memorabilia case.
Martin Dodge, the man behind cybergeography.org, has co-written (with Rob Kitchin) a book called Mapping Cyberspace. WriteTheWeb has got an exclusive interview with him.
Where are all the .coms? Physically speaking, the net has not lived up to its promise of being a global medium, because 17 percent of domains are located in just five global locations. Wanna guess which ones?
The party's over for web assistant company Deepleap. CEO Lane Becker mailed their registered users yesterday saying
Rob Manuel, who runs the tsluts weblog, has posted an interesting e-mail conversation he had about the future of meta tags and web site promotion.
This has week has seen renewed energy from web developers to further the RSS lightweight headline format, as used by sites like My Netscape and My UserLand.
John VanDyk has created a metadata plugin for the Manila web content management system, as used by EditThisPage.com.
The Deepleap team have launched their product into a beta testing phase. Providing a web-based helper window, Deepleap offers web users a collection of small utilities to aid web browsing.
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