Facebook a cartographié les amitiés tissées sur son site entre les 500 millions de personnes à travers le monde qui utilisent son réseau social. Paul Butler, le stagiaire à l’origine du projet explique son concept : « Je voulais voir comment la géographie et les frontières politiques correspondent à l’endroit où vivent les gens par rapport à leurs amis. Je voulais visualiser les villes entretenant beaucoup de liens d’amitié ». Les liens d’amitié sont représentés par des filaments lumineux bleu redessinant les continents et les pays en illuminant les régions de denses amitiés facebookiennes. […]
Interactive map of where Facebook is used and stats per country
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Gaza – Map of Bombing Intensity & Casualties, Dec. 27 -12 Jan, 2009
The following map shows the bombing intensity and casualties in Gaza strip between December 27th and January 12th. The map […]
Beating the Censors
When Tunisian bloggers suspected that the presidential jet was being frequently used for personal business by friends and family of the president, they used airport records to track its travels and compared it to official government records. Only one of ten trips proved to be official. Using Google maps, the bloggers illustrated their findings by “following” the plane in a video that was posted on YouTube and could be viewed within Tunisia.
You, too, can defeat cruel dictators online
The extensive palace complex of Tunisia’s septuagenarian dictator, President Zine el-Abidine ben Ali, for example, is off limits to his citizens. Anyone caught taking photographs of the vast complex are likely to be arrested. But cyberspace is beyond President ben Ali’s reach. There his palace is besieged by human rights activists.