Tag Archives: maps

In Indonesia & the Philippines it’s more about sharing content, in UK & Canada it’s more about sending messages

By Julie Starr | Published: June 24, 2011
Via Mashable, a graphic showing how people use social networks in various parts of the globe: In some countries, many of them Asian, most people were focused on content sharing. Others, like the UK and Canada, had more people who put a greater emphasis on sending messages. New Zealand appears to have fallen of the [...]
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Link wrap: TBD, maps, saying no to Knight

By Julie Starr | Published: August 17, 2010
My browser is close to exploding under the weight of so many open tabs so I’m in tab-clearing mode this morning. Here’s a link wrap of things that lodged in my brain for one reason or another recently. TBD Mathew Ingram does a nice round-up on two US local-news-and-blog-network initiatives, TBD and GrowthSpur. TBD.com, which [...]
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Patrick Meier on media use of Ushahidi

By Julie Starr | Published: July 21, 2010
Patrick Meier on media use of Ushahidi from Nieman Journalism Lab on Vimeo.
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Maps show how transport shrinks the world

By Julie Starr | Published: October 28, 2009
New Scientist has published some beautiful maps exploring which are the remotest places on earth – given how much international transport we have available to us. The maps are based on a model which calculated how long it would take to travel to the nearest city of 50,000 or more people by land or water. [...]
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Fun with embeddable maps from koordinates

By Julie Starr | Published: September 26, 2009
I was just having a little play with the maps and datasets on http://koordinates.com – the brainchild of New Zealanders Ed Corkery and Rob Coup – and decided to see what ‘Hamilton 0.5 contours 2008′ would look like embedded: Hamilton 0.5m Contours 2008 from KoordinatesHamilton 0.5m Contours 2008 on Koordinates I love it that you [...]
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