Barrington Atlas. The Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World provides beautiful detailed topographical maps of the ancient world. A mammoth undertaking in production over 12 years with 160 scholars and cartographers (with help from MapQuest) and estimated to cost over $5 million it is the largest and most accurate Ancient World Atlas ever. Composed of 99 maps (examples) the Atlas is easily available to the layperson. "If you're gripped by Hannibal and want to sort out which way you think he went through the Alps, you'll have enough of a clear landscape to do it. If you want to follow St. Paul around the eastern Mediterranean, you can." [MetaFilter] 
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Jon Udell: Publishing, permanence, and transparency. Jon Udell: Publishing, permanence, and transparency:

First, as with email, we're going to have to accept that what goes to the Web tends to stay there. Second, since we are all going to make mistakes, say things we wish we hadn't, and suffer the effects of software glitches, we're all going to have to learn to cut one another a lot more slack.

Amen. Be liberal in what you accept, conservative in what you produce. (In other words, that's a geeky way of saying grin & bear it, but say nice things. Not always easy.) [0xDECAFBAD] 
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Tribute to George Orwell [ via STOP1984] 
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Netomat: Group-editable multi-media canvas tool thingie. Clay Shirky says:

Maciej Wisniewski, creator of the original netomat art piece has now launched netomat.net, which gives you a desktop tool for creating multi-media canvasses that can be emailed to other users or posted to a web page, and the recipients continue to edit them. Part tool, part platform, it defies easy description -- the Writeable Drawable Voice-Annotatable Web, Hydra re-invented as a collage tool, what wikis would be like if they'd been designed by Alan Kay. As usual with odd new tools, their own home page sucks for communicating the possible uses -- netomat only starts to make sense when you make something and give it to someone else to change.

Discuss [Boing Boing Blog] 
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Two Fun Links.

• MatrixXP (Requires Quicktime) [via Adam Curry's Weblog]
• N.A.I.L.S. (Requires Flash 6) - the guy performed different actions the two times I visited today [via Andy B.]

[The Shifted Librarian] 
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Blogging the Blogathon.

Blogathon 2003
'During the Blogathon, people update their websites every 30 minutes for 24 hours straight. For this, they collect sponsorships. Pledges can be a flat donation, or a certain amount for every hour the blogger manages to stay awake.' Even if you just want to enjoy the spectacle, mark your calendar for July 26th. Everything starts at 6:00am Pacific Time.

Also noteworthy is the fact that several of the participating bloggers are earning money for Book Aid International, which works to provide books, training and support to public libraries in Africa." [Libraryman]

A few people have asked if I am going to participate in this year's Blogathon, but I won't be able to because I'll be on vacation far, far away from any internet connection. I encourage others to join, though. We need a list of library bloggers we can sponsor, so leave a comment if you know of any.

[The Shifted Librarian] 
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Tim Brown, CEO of Ideo, says that the architecture of blogs conforms to the way we organize things and that email clients will follow blogs' lead: "Imagine keeping e-mail a bit more like a blog. Then suddenly, you've got instant messaging qualities and e-mail qualities happening at the same time." [Corante: Corante on Blogging] 
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Who's who among digerati?. General Thinking "began in early 2001 as a collaboration between Remo Giuffré, Geoffrey Gifford, along with a shared intuitive desire to gather together a global Network of Thinkers who shared certain Beliefs." Their "roster" includes Erik "MetaDesign" Spiekermann and a variety of interesting folks. Friendster for the digerati? Always interesting to read what the elite think of their peers... [MetaFilter] 
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Drainspotting is a website with pictures of manhole covers, drains, grates and trench covers. I actually find it quite interesting. Mhm - this surely must have been blogged before somewhere? Anyway, just found the link at linkfilter. [The Cartoonist] 
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Cartoons. Advertising. OS X. Raumpatrouille. [Scripting News] 
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126 and counting. Welcome to my readers from Macau. You are from the 126th nation or territory this website reached in 2003 so... (30 words, 2 comment(s).) [hebig.org/blog] 
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How the President got spammed. Okay, let me recap, I want to be sure I haven't missed anything:

• Some Nigerian weirdo invents something about Nigerian selling Uranium to Iraq (must be in the same group of those sending you spam asking if they can move $4M to your bank account)
• then he sells the news to the Italian secret service
• they think appropriate to report to the British secret services
• who will then pass the news to the CIA
• who will send it over at the White House
• just in time to get it included in the President's address to the nation.

And somebody is accusing bloggers of not checking facts before posting? [Paolo Valdemarin: Paolo's Weblog] 
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