"This website aims to present the results of the ongoing research on a cartographic approach to the representation of knowledge in its present configurations.
The aim of the research is to extend the cartographic metaphor beyond visual analogy, and to expose it as a narrative model and tool to intervene in complex, heterogeneous, dynamic realities, just like those of human geography..."
About a month ago [correction: it was in May...] This American life did a program that was THE clearest and best explanation I'd heard (or read) for the Crisis we seemed to be in: The Giant Pool of Money. Last night's episode of This American Life was another winner: clear, un-partisan, multi-perspectival: Another Frightening Show About the Economy. You really NEED to download it and listen. And I'm adding NPR's Planet Money to my blog reading...
John Battelle points to his retroGoogle ego-search in the Google of 2001, so I tried it myself: January 2001 found me in the thick of things, most of them long forgotten. Lots to think about in the intervening 7+ years too...