Those who’ve been reading my blog for a long time may remember one of my more popular posts comparing the Firefox 3 Pledge Map (locations of downloads of Firefox 3 back in June 2008) versus Thomas Barnett’s Map (published in The Pentagon’s New Map – his blog here). A little while back a friend shared [...]
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Some More Core-Periphary Maps
The New World Order: Flat, Spiky or Divided?
Just started Who’s Your City by Richard Florida out of personal interest but also to better figure out why it is the Vancouver sometimes works, and sometimes really doesn’t work. Figuring out that puzzle, and doing something is part of the reason I joined Vision (and yes, I’m still recovering from the victory celebrations). I’m [...]
The Firefox download map: Remixed
So with the help of my very cool friend Jeremy V. we’ve remixed the Firefox download map. The official download map shows us the absolute number of downloads per country. From a marketing perspective this was a great idea. However, since writing the post in which I mashed up the Pentagon’s New Map with the [...]
Firefox 3 pledge map vs. the Pentagon’s new map
What are the geopolitics of open source? To find out I thought it would be interested to see how Thomas Barnett’s map meshed with the Spread Mozilla Firefox 3 download pledge map. Some brief background for those not familiar with “The Pentagon’s New Map.” It is a map that sits at the heart of a [...]
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