Sound Maps
To make the maps more “real”, add sounds….. In Montreal, they did it. http://www.montrealsoundmap.com/?lang=en Also England: http://sounds.bl.uk/uksoundmap/fusionmap.aspx
CITADYNE Blog
Garamond
For the celebration of the 450th anniversary of the death of Claude Garamond http://www.garamond.culture.fr/en/english
Les voeux de l’UNIL pour 2012 – Happy New year from University of Lausanne
Les voeux de l’UNIL pour 2012
Citadyne in the Press
http://www.tdg.ch/blog-profs-55-blogue-mieux-comprendre-monde-possible-humour-2011-12-16
Virtual exhibition of typography
The French National Library organizes different virtual exhibitions which are very interested for who wants to learn more about history of books, print and typography. Recently, a new exhibition about the actual creation of...
New technologies are nicer in a wonderful world……..
See the parodies: Of the book: – Spanish: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_uaI28LGJk – Norvegian: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFAWR6hzZek Of the Iphone 6 by Anthony Kavanagh (in french canadian) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJovnFcx4DY
7 Billions of people on the Earth
Previsions of population growth: a very important topic relayed by many blogs (Urban ticks):
Twitter City Maps
See different maps of cities drawn by twitter links like this Map of San Francisco
Scale of the Universe
Magnitude of everything….. http://primaxstudio.com/stuff/scale_of_universe/
Africapolis
Atlas of African cities on Google Earth (of course you must have already downloaded Google Earth): Website Click on Display Africapolis data in Google Earth and then you access to many information from the...
The Digital Archaeological Atlas of the Holy Land
Spatial Search – Draw a Search Area on the Map to Retreive Site Points in Google Earth WEBSITE of DAAHL
Degree centrality and variation in tie weights
A nice and simple method to take into account both weights and dispersion of ties: by Tore Opsal Method and examples
Flights in the sky overhead
http://www.flightradar24.com/ It can zoom the map that is displayed and move by clicking on the arrows to bring up a region and a city. We then see all the planes passing overhead. The map...
Bombing the City
THE bronze statue of Rocky near the Philadelphia Museum of Art irked Jessie Hemmons. She found the statue too big, too macho and too touristy, so last month Ms. Hemmons, a 24-year-old artist, bombed...
Physical proximity plays a big role in terms of building relationships
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/technology/05ping.html?_r=2 Grubwithus Organizes Dinners – Social, Minus Media – NYTimes.com, june 4th 2011
Your movements tracked by your IPhone
if you want your own movement (available on your MAC), download the application
Sospiri bridge in Venice…. sustainable for Toyota?
sospiri….. good for Toyota
Gapminder
The Graphic Show of the World development evolution…… Gapminder Website