Hello, In the spirit of shameless self-promotion I invite AOIR members to visit our blog <http://www.floatingsheep.org/> dedicated to mapping and analyzing user generated information about places. The results provide one glimpse of what the "internet" knows about particular places. The data/maps are part of a larger academic research project and the blog provides an informal means of distributing some of the findings. Religious <http://www.floatingsheep.org/2009/12/user-created-geographies-of-religion.h tml> practice around the world Availability <http://www.floatingsheep.org/2009/11/visualizing-abortion-debate_8973.html> of Abortion services in the U.S. New <http://www.floatingsheep.org/2010/01/metropolitan-level-maps-of-cyberscapes .html> York's Cyberscape Placemarks <http://www.floatingsheep.org/2009/10/google-mapping-2008-us-presidential.ht ml> and the 2008 <http://www.floatingsheep.org/2009/10/google-mapping-2008-us-presidential.ht ml> U.S. presidential election Bookstores <http://www.floatingsheep.org/2009/11/where-is-intellect.html> and churches Mapping <http://www.floatingsheep.org/2009/11/mapping-wikipedia.html> Wikipedia There will be between 2-3 new posting a week at the FloatingSheep.org blog <http://www.floatingsheep.org/> so please subscribe via email, twitter (@floating_sheep), or Atom feed. We would also greatly appreciate if you could forward this on to anyone you think would be interested. Thanks! All comments and critiques are welcome. Cheers...Matthew Zook p.s. We've posted a quick <http://www.floatingsheep.org/2009/12/factsheet-faq-for-floatingsheeporg_07. html> overview of the project as well as listing academic articles if you are interested in more in depth explanation Matthew Zook Associate Professor Department of Geography University of Kentucky 1457 Patterson Office Tower Lexington, KY 40506-0027 859.257.8334 (phone) 859.323.1969 (fax) zook@uky.edu http://www.zook.info/