Maps of flow, not just infrastructure

BBC to put every publicly owned oil painting in the UK online
[via rodcorp]
The BBC is going to put all 200,000 publicly-owned oil paintings in the UK online.

A partnership with the Public Catalogue Foundation charity will see all the UK’s publicly owned oil paintings – 80% of which are not on public display – placed on the internet by 2012.

Mapping a connected world
[via migurski]

To understand how the world really works, we need maps, not just of infrastructure, but of flow. We need maps not just of the internet and shipping lanes, but maps that help us understand who and what we pay attention to, how we get information, what we know and what we don’t know.

A partnership with the Public Catalogue Foundation charity will see all the UK’s publicly owned oil paintings – 80% of which are not on public display – placed on the internet by 2012.

A Newspaper? On a PC? That’s Crazy Talk
[via nautical2k]
A post from the New York Times’ Bits blog links to this video from 1981: