An interesting move by Google. No doubt still singed from its adventure in mainland China, the search engine has created a new tool that maps countries whose government has requested or taken legal action to remove content from either YouTube or Google search results, or otherwise have asked for details about its users. For removal … Continue Reading
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Visualizing cyberscapes
Caught wind of a really interesting new blog called Floating Sheep. As many will be aware, more and more of the data we see emerging through the Internet is geo-coded, that is, it is associated to a particular location on the earth (for example, by longitude and latitude). And, increasingly this data is user created. … Continue Reading