When there is nothing else to do I discover myself reading the subway maps. These underwent a guerilla update after a bunch of crafty conceptualists boarded the 13:50 tube from Epping to West Ruislip armed with wit, stickers and a camera. They upgraded the factual signage into humorous comments on travel and life in London. Super simple, super effective.

In an undercover operation a team of local volunteers swaped the advertisements in Madrid’s city center making the entire publicity landscape disappear. Find more info here.

these nice maps from telegeography, both in terms of of content as well as the graphical representation, say a lot about internet use, availability and demandas well as the dangerous situation of leaving entire regions unconnected behind.

A worldmap by contry codes, I assume the size of abbreviation resmbles the numeber of registered pages online…

The Penguin Editorial is currently celebrating their new web event We Tell Stories. Six stories are being told in different ways, however, each is based on web presentation. The first story by Charles Cumming is being told along an interactive map, check for yourself at wetellstories.co.uk

this map by money.cnn.com has a certain similarity in its statement on density to the nasa map, the amount of light is coherent to the financial power of internet customers in the areas and clearly points out that africa, parts of asia, russia and the americas have other priorities at the time.

i am still fascinated by this nasa-collage showing density but also technical development on the planet