A ZUI is a new kind of interface that presents a huge canvas of information on a traditional computer display by letting the user smoothly zoom in, to get more detailed information, and zoom out for an overview. : http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/jazz/ PhotoMesa Image Browser : http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/photomesa/

World Wind lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth (experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D, just as if you were really there). : http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/ requires huge 170MB program download.

"...a decade from now people will be able to easily locate the information they need and use the results in context without even realizing they're searching." - Susan Dumais, Senior Microsoft Corp. Researcher, Adaptive Systems & Interaction (ASI) group since 1997.: http://research.microsoft.com/displayArticle.aspx?id=1249 Her quest: Make it easy for people for find, use and make sense of information. This is done by providing unified access to different sources of information and providing a fast and flexible interface with quick sorting, filtering, previews and thumbnails.

One main goals of the INA is to develop a new system of mapping our world - one that does not rely on geography: http://www.princeton.edu/~ina/links/index.html Resources at http://publish.uwo.ca/~mcdaniel/weblinks/carto.html

Google Maps collection: http://gmaps.nicj.net/

To blog is, after all, to stage--through selective inclusion, exclusion, and recontextualization--a performance of individual identity, to imaginatively order an inchoate universe through the re-centering lens of subjectivity. The blogger can reincarnate her- or himself as an authoritative and consequential presence, with a voice and purpose.

“...that strange new zone between medium and message. That zone we call the interface.” - Steven Johnson, 1997
“Good designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organizing and manipulating of words and pictures.” - Jeffery Veen from http://www.lukew.com/resources/quotes.asp
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." - Henry David Thoreau
"Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road." - Voltaire
"No great artist ever sees things the way they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an Artist." - Oscar Wilde
"The way you look at the world depends on where you are! " -